Objectives & Outcomes
Vision
To be the leading Chemical Engineering Department in New England, with innovative educational programs and fundamental and applied research that will attract a diverse population of excellent students and faculty, and contribute highly skilled graduates to academia, government, and industry.
Mission
We are a community in a common quest to create and distribute Chemical Engineering Knowledge in order to prepare our graduates to be successful leaders and practitioners.
Program Educational Objectives
The Department of Chemical Engineering Program is more than just a collection of courses and credit hours whose content reflects the required program criteria. The program has also been carefully designed to prepare students for the profession of chemical engineering through study, experience and practice, with these objectives:
1. Produce graduates who are able to successfully practice chemical
engineering to serve state, local, state, national, and international industries
and government agencies.
2. Produce graduates with the necessary background and technical skills to
work professionally as individuals or in teams in chemical engineering
practice or in graduate schools.
3. Prepare graduates for personal and professional success with an
understanding and appreciation of ethical behavior, social responsibility, and
diversity, both as individuals and in team environments.
4. Prepare graduates to be interested, motivated, and capable of pursuing
continued life-long learning through further graduate education, short courses,
or other training programs in engineering and related fields.
We consider our students, the faculty and the alumni to be the primary constituents of our program. The constituencies all provide major input to the program by direct feedback. The feedback is both verbal and written.
Student Outcomes
During the study of our chemical engineering program, students will demonstrate the following:
- an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering
- an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data
- an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability
- an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams
- an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
- an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
- an ability to communicate effectively
- the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context
- a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning
- a knowledge of contemporary issues
- an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
The Chemical Engineering Program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012, telephone: (410) 347-7700.
