Questionnaire for ABET Accreditation

1. List any other degrees/training obtained since receiving your Bachelor's degree:

Degree	University	Date

2. Current Employment

Company:
Title:
Address:
City:	State:	ZipCode:
Phone:	Fax:
Email:
Responsibilities:

3. Previous employment in the past five years

Company 1:

Title 1:

Company 2:

Title 2:

4. In what Professional Societies do you participate?

Society 1:

Level Participation:

Society 2:

Level Participation:

Society 3:

Level Participation:

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

Highly Related Moderately Related Slightly Related Not Related at All

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

Highly Related Moderately Related Slightly Related Not Related at All

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

Highly Related Moderately Related Slightly Related Not Related at All

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

Highly Related Moderately Related Slightly Related Not Related at All

9. What is your current area of work? Check all that apply:
Physical/Mechanical Metallurgy
Corrosion
Mineral Processing
Engineering Management
Metal Product Dev./Manufacture
Consulting
Sales
Law
Electronic/Medical Devices
Hydro-/Pyrometallurgy
Retired/Not Employed
Other

10. 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?

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

12. When hiring a newly graduated metallurgical engineer, what abilities (technical and nontechnical) would you want this person to have?

13. Please indicate the importance of the following skills are in your career and select the three skills that are most important.

	Great Importance	Some Importance	A Little	Not Much	No Importance	Not Applicable or No Answer	Pick the three most important
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 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

14. Based on your experiences in the Department, please respond to how well the curriculum prepared you with these skills for your job and checkmark three skills that you feel we should have emphasized more in your undergraduate program.

	Very Well	Well	Just Okay	Not Well	Badly	Not Applicable or No Answer	Pick three for more emphasis
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 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

15. Please indicate the importance of the following metallurgical engineering courses to your career.

	Course	Great Importance	Some Importance	A Little	Not Much	No Importance	Not Applicable or No Answer
1050	Metals and Civilization
1610	Introduction to Extractive Metallurgy
1620	Introduction to Physical Metallurgy
3070	Statistical Methods in Earth Sci & Eng
3220	Material and Energy Balances
3500	Fluid Flow
3530	Experimental Techniques in Metallurgy
3620	Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria
5260	Physical Metallurgy I
5270	Powder Metallurgy
5280	Magnetic Materials & Devices
5450	Mechanical Metallurgy
5600	Corrosion Engineering
5640	Dislocation Theory
5660	Surfaces and Interfaces
5670	Mineral Processing I
5680	Mineral Processing II
5690	Process Engineering Statistics
5700	Hydrometallurgy
5710	High Temperature Chemical Processing
5750	Rate Processes
5760	Process Synthesis, Design & Econ
5770	Electrometallurgy
5780	Metals Processing
5790	Metal Failure Analysis
5800	Special Topics in Metallurgical Eng
5830	Senior Project
6300	Alloy and Material Design

16. Other comments or suggestions.