Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Cadwell, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Wendy Crone, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Tagged Divisions

Materials

innovative reforms; and (3) a reformed curriculum and teachingmodel that will not only benefit students in EP but will also benefit students in other engineeringand science degree programs at UW.20The cornerstone to a successful launch of a student into a research project is a new coursedesigned for the EP degree program, EP 468 Introduction to Engineering Research (the first in aseries of four courses in the research sequence). In this one-credit course students are introducedto issues in the context of research. An outline of the syllabus from a recent offering of thecourse is given in Table 1. The main objectives of EP 468 are to provide: (1) content knowledgerelevant to the conduct of research, apart from specific technical skills, (2) a