Conference Session

Looking at the ChE Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Annette Jacobson, Carnegie Mellon University; Rosemary Frollini, Carnegie Mellon University; Susana Steppan, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. Page 13.1303.7Assessment from Students, Alumni and Corporate Scientists and EngineersSince, 1978, 342 undergraduate chemical engineers have elected this four course sequence,which comprises 10-25% of each chemical engineering graduating class at Carnegie Mellon.Once the minor was instituted in 2003, an average of 8 students elected the minor per year andall of these 40 students graduated the year their minor was granted. The BS graduates work inindustries that manufacture, for example, coatings, paints, pigments, surfactants, nanomaterials,polymers, food, personal care products, cosmetics and biomaterials; approximately 20% of thestudents that received the minor entered graduate school working toward a PhD after graduation.The initial eighteen