QUESTION A FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY MEMBERS What is CEE faculty trying to teach? What will CEE students need to know? Student comments: Where I worked we only needed to plug into the right formula. I'll never need to derive anything. I won't need to know any theory. Will it be adequate in our professional lives to just know how to use the formulas and tables? In a job situation think of two types of engineers: I. Can employ equations they studied in school, or can be found in textbooks and handbooks, to calculate various design values. (Cookbook engineering. Plug and chug) Has a grasp on problems and how things hang together, knows that theory/equations are appropriate in various situations and their limitations, so that they can direct others to solve a wide range of usual as well as new and unusual problems.
II.
Who gets paid more? Who would you hire, or promote to supervisor? Which do you want to be? Which can be replaced by a computer? from CEE School Vision Statement, 1990 "Our undergraduate program exsits within a large private and public research university known historically for dedication to liberal and professional education. Our broad-based undergraduate education should produce thinkers, creators and communicators who are well grounded in engineering fundamentals. We should produce graduates who have the necessary tools to pursue life-long education, to make use of innovations, and to advance technology."
Learned Saying People who know how to do things will always have a job. Those who know will why always be their boss.
What is CEE faculty trying to teach? What will you need to know?
Student comments:
Where I worked we only needed to plug into the right formula. I'll never need to derive anything. How valuable is theory? I won't need to know any theory. Will it be adequate in our professional lives to just know how to use the formulas and tables?
In a job situation think of two kinds of engineers:
1) Can employ equations they studied in school, or can be found in textbooks and handbooks, to calculate various design values.
2)
Has a grasp on problems and how things hang together, knows that theory/equations are appropriate in various situations and their limitations, so that they can direct others to solve a wide range of usual as well as new and unusual problems.
Who gets paid more? Who would you hire, or promote to supervisor? Which do you want to be? Which can be replaced by a computer?
from CEE School Vision Statement
"Our undergraduate program exsits within a large private and public research university known historically for dedication to liberal and professional education. Our broad-based undergraduate education should produce thinkers, creators and communicators who are well grounded in engineering fundamentals. We should produce graduates who have the necessary tools to pursue life-long education, to make use of innovations, and to advance technology."
Learned Saying
People who know how to do things will always have a job. Those who know why will always be their boss.