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2002 * Time management, effective meetings, project financing (the budget and cost estimation of projects),
prototyping.
* More electrical engineering hands on.
* Basic problem solving techniques, dealing with various cross sections of people.
* I would have liked to learn Geometric Dimensioning andTolerancing in the drafting class (CE 210).
* The business aspect vs the world of academia.
* CAD design, dimensioning and tolerancing, design for manufacture.
* Research methods--how and where to get help solving technical problems when your boss or team
leader doesn’t know.
* I find that employers expect a knowledge of specific processes and practices which I was not
exposed to in my college experience.
* More hands on experimentation.
* Corporate/business motives, techniques, policies, economics, and politics. Also, more writing
emphasis: clear and concise.
* Politics in the work place. Working w/customers (both internal and external).
* The need to apply learned knowledge to real problems.
* Current tools.
* There are a world of standards and protocols in place that my education did not include.
* N/A
* The COEM has prepared me for my current position.
* Program management and budgeting.
* ”How to be effective”--working with difficult people (i.e. engineers versus production managers),
stuff like that. Maybe a “7 habits of highly effective people” course?
* Statistics.
* How to design a project from a certain set of specifications (customer and design specs).
* How to specify materials and associated commercially available items.
* Educate students on how requirements drive design.
* Experience during college w/a company.
* Being a pilot now, it would have been nice to have been taught the “real world” (performance) aero
I now know next to the theoretical.
* ”How to deal with idots!) Joke. Need to teach students that engineers do not have an unlimited
budget and need to make compromises even though the result may be a less desirable design. No one
wants to spend money!
2003 * Codes of standards, learning how things work, rather than just analyzing the theory and math behind
it.
* Statistics.
* I’m not sure the college experience, as it stands now, can actually prepare anyone, in any field, for
work outside of the classroom.
* English units, Excel, Unix.
* FEA.
* Economic considerations, design trade study methods, application-oriented statistics (design of
experiments, measurement system analysis), task/project scheduling and budgeting.
* More on the importance that economics plays in engineering.
* Technical writing.
* Not much honestly.
* More experience in technical writing and literature searching.
* Business/finance courses; well structured labs.
* More communication/interaction skills--Possibly add a course on ethics and communication--How
to handle difficult people, etc.
* How to deal with some of the political aspects that come with working in a business.
* I think more emphasis would be useful in the program/project budgeting/cost analysis arena.
* We need more applied math and modeling experience. We also need to solve more realistic
problems; Dr. Perkins did a great job with this!!!
* Business aspects, project management.
* CAD like CAT’A or PROE, technical writing
* Practical training.
* More career placement. Be more involved, sooner.
* Nada.
* Multidisciplinary work. Impact on environment.
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