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Alumni Survey for Undergraduate Accreditation

ABET Alum Survey

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The Department of Metallurgical is periodically evaluated by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). One of the key portions of the ABET accreditation process is program assessment and improvement. In order to improve the effectiveness of our degree programs we need your help with the following questions. Thank you for your cooperation in this important matter.

 

1. Personal information

First nameMILast name
Graduation quarter/semester
Graduation year

2. Current employment

Company
Title
Address
Phone
email @
Responsibilities

3. Previous employment in the past five years

CompanyTitle

4. In what Professional Societies do you participate?

SocietyLevel of participation

5. Your current area of work (Check all that apply):

Consulting
Corrosion
Electronic/Medical Devices
Engineering Management
Hydro-/Pyrometallurgy
Law
Metal Product Dev./Manufacture
Mineral Processing
Physical/Mechanical Metallurgy
Sales
Other
 

6. How closely related is your current job to your metallurgical engineering degree?

7 How closely related was the first, full-time job to the metallurgical engineering received from the University of Utah?

8. Indicate your level of overall satisfaction with your metallurgical training as it relates to your career.

9. How do you perceive the importance of internet-based material as a part of the undergraduate education?

 

Based on your experiences in the Department, please respond to the following by selecting the most appropriate answer. Circle NA for those that are not applicable or if you have no opinion.

10. What is the importance of the following topics in your career?
Great importance
Some importance
Little importance
Not much importance
No importance
NA
Most important 3
Apply mathematics, science and engineering principles
Design and conduct experiments and interpret data
Design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs
Function on multidisciplinary teams
Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
Understand professional and ethical responsibility
Communicate effectively
Understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global context
Recognize the need for and to engage in life-long learning
Know contemporary issues
Use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
Exert the effort necessary for job success
Consider the entire system in project solutions

Please go back and check 3 areas that you feel we should have emphasized more in your undergraduate program.

 

11. How well did the department curriculum prepare you in the following topics for your job?
Great importance
Some importance
Little importance
Not much importance
No importance
NA
Most important 3
Apply mathematics, science and engineering principles
Design and conduct experiments and interpret data
Design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs
Function on multidisciplinary teams
Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
Understand professional and ethical responsibility
Communicate effectively
Understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global context
Recognize the need for and to engage in life-long learning
Know contemporary issues
Use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
Exert the effort necessary for job success
Consider the entire system in project solutions

Please go back and check 3 areas that you feel we should have emphasized more in your undergraduate program.

 

 

11. Please indicate the importance of the following courses to your career. Details of the course content can be found by clicking on the name.
Great importance
Some importance
Little importance
Not much importance
No importance
NA
MetE 1050 Metals and Civilization
MetE 1610 Introduction to Extractive Metallurgy
MetE 1620 Introduction to Physical Metallurgy
MetE 3070 Statistical Methods in Earth Sci & Eng
MetE 3080 Processing & Analysis of Digital Images
MetE 3220 Material and Energy Balances
MetE 3500 Fluid Flow
MetE 3530 Experimental Techniques in Metallurgy
MetE 3620 Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria
MetE 5180 Mineral Industries & the Environment
MetE 5260 Physical Metallurgy I
MetE 5270 Powder Metallurgy
MetE 5450 Mechanical Metallurgy
MetE 5600 Corrosion Engineering
MetE 5640 Dislocation Theory
MetE 5660 Surfaces and Interfaces
MetE 5670 Mineral Processing I
MetE 5680 Mineral Processing II
MetE 5690 Process Engineering Statistics
MetE 5700 Hydrometallurgy
MetE 5710 High Temperature Chemical Processing
MetE 5750 Rate Processes
MetE 5760 Process Synthesis, Design & Econ
MetE 5770 Electrometallurgy
MetE 5780 Metals Processing
MetE 5790 Metal Failure Analysis
MetE 5830 Senior Project

13. Considering your professional experience since you received your degree, what subject(s), principle(s), item(s), etc. do you feel were missing and wish had been covered while you were a student in metallurgical engineering?

14. What are your suggestions to improve the curriculum to meet current and future societal needs?

15. Consider a new metallurgical engineering graduate of 1999 that you might hire, what abilities (technical and non-technical) would you want this person to have?

16. Other comments or suggestions.

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