2002 * Time management, effective meetings, project financing (the budget <strong>and</strong> cost estimation <strong>of</strong> projects), prototyping. * More electrical <strong>engineering</strong> h<strong>and</strong>s on. * Basic problem solving techniques, dealing with various cross sections <strong>of</strong> people. * I would have liked to learn Geometric Dimensioning <strong>and</strong>Tolerancing in the drafting class (CE 210). * The business aspect vs the world <strong>of</strong> academia. * CAD design, dimensioning <strong>and</strong> tolerancing, design for manufacture. * Research methods--how <strong>and</strong> where to get help solving technical problems when your boss or team leader doesn’t know. * I find that employers expect a knowledge <strong>of</strong> specific processes <strong>and</strong> practices which I was not exposed to in my college experience. * More h<strong>and</strong>s on experimentation. * Corporate/business motives, techniques, policies, economics, <strong>and</strong> politics. Also, more writing emphasis: clear <strong>and</strong> concise. * Politics in the work place. Working w/customers (both internal <strong>and</strong> external). * The need to apply learned knowledge to real problems. * Current tools. * There are a world <strong>of</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ards <strong>and</strong> protocols in place that my education did not include. * N/A * The COEM has prepared me for my current position. * Program management <strong>and</strong> budgeting. * ”How to be effective”--working with difficult people (i.e. engineers versus production managers), stuff like that. Maybe a “7 habits <strong>of</strong> highly effective people” course? * Statistics. * How to design a project from a certain set <strong>of</strong> specifications (customer <strong>and</strong> design specs). * How to specify materials <strong>and</strong> 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 <strong>and</strong> need to make compromises even though the result may be a less desirable design. No one wants to spend money! 2003 * Codes <strong>of</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ards, learning how things work, rather than just analyzing the theory <strong>and</strong> math behind it. * Statistics. * I’m not sure the college experience, as it st<strong>and</strong>s now, can actually prepare anyone, in any field, for work outside <strong>of</strong> the classroom. * English units, Excel, Unix. * FEA. * Economic considerations, design trade study methods, application-oriented statistics (design <strong>of</strong> experiments, measurement system analysis), task/project scheduling <strong>and</strong> budgeting. * More on the importance that economics plays in <strong>engineering</strong>. * Technical writing. * Not much honestly. * More experience in technical writing <strong>and</strong> literature searching. * Business/finance courses; well structured labs. * More communication/interaction skills--Possibly add a course on ethics <strong>and</strong> communication--How to h<strong>and</strong>le difficult people, etc. * How to deal with some <strong>of</strong> 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 <strong>and</strong> 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. Attachments - Page 88 <strong>Aerospace</strong> Engineering
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