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*More coordination w/school of business to allow students to see the big picture outside the
engineering box.
*More attention should be placed upon HOW to design and WHAT resources are available in
industry.
*Computer programming courses.
*Less gen eds and more technical electives.
*More writing emphasis. More courses like Dr. Perkins’ senior laboratory.
*More opportunity to take humanities/business courses.
*Include engineering business classes. Add class projects to the lower level classes. After ENG
101, classes don’t include projects until students are in upper division courses.
*More classes in the area of satellite design.
*More hands on training and labs.
*1. Realistic view of daily duties of engineer in large and small companies. 2. Ability to teach
req’d of all professors.
*More consilience [sic]. It seemed that there was a lack of communication between professors as
to what was being taught in each other’s classes.
*Concentrated more on the fundamentals of engineering.
*Incorporate more labs rather than lectures.
*Don’t know yet--not much job experience.
*More design work and more computer simulation courses.
*The courses need to be more associated with real world applications.
*Educate students on the design process in a manufacturing contextt, i.e., How a design gets
from drawing to manufacturing. Make team members individually responsible. NO GROUP
GRADES!!!
*Need requirements on actual work environment experience, (i.e., co-op/internship)
*Nothing, if anything I was over-qualified.
*Give the instructor more power in getting rid of disruptive, disrespectful students.
2003 * A lot of my classes were completely irrelevant to what I do at work. Personally I think some
classes were irrelevant, period.
* More hands-on labs that are practical.
* I would like to have had more contact with industry members in engineering jobs as a regular
part of coursework.
* More difficult curriculum. More focus on students and getting them involved in research.
* Actual engineering problems encountered everyday.
* More CADD, more on understanding and using military/commercial standards (MILSTD,
ISO, ASME, etc.).
* I would have included more mandatory design courses.
* Not as much weight on test material.
* I believe that more cooperative learning would have been beneficial. Also, I’m upset that
programing was removed from the AME curriculum.
* More interaction w/engineering students from other disciplines--teams combining mechanical,
systems, electrical . . .
* More business/finance/acct.; exposure to politics of working in an organization.
* At my current location I have had the opportunity to use many techniques and principles
learned/developed during my college experience.
* The graduate classes ME500a and ME500b were really needed before I left school. I sat in on
ME500b and it helped me a lot; they should allow students to take it as an undergraduate.
* Need CAD courses for the aero. Technical writing. NO general education ??????? of time
* Better practical training.
* The economy; no jobs right now.
* Fewer weed-out courses.
* Emphasis on environment/society.
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