(513f) Responding to the Needs of Industry: Perspectives From the Education Division

The membership of the Education Division, by definition have a keen interest is building into the undergraduate curricula those elements that will make one of our products ,"new Chemical Engineering practitioners", valuable to the industries that employ them. Like any business, the 'feedback' from the marketplace is one of the truest inputs which when accurately measured can point the way to continuous improvement activities that assure the graduates are both well-grounded in fundamentals and able to quickly come up to speed in emerging areas.

Getting and verifying this market place feedback and communicating it to Education professionals is crucial to evolutionary improvements of the curricula and teaching methods.