ABET Engineering Accreditation Criteria 2000

Educational Objectives

Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering

Oklahoma State University

October 6, 2000

Consistent with ABET terminology, “Educational Objectives” are the desirable attributes and accomplishments of OSU ChE BS graduates expressed during the first few years after graduation.

Most students seek private sector employment immediately after graduation. However, others enter professional schools (medical, law, or business) and some engineering graduate school. Some enter the military. It is common for some to leave professional practice and pursue a full-time commitment to raising a family. These are diverse life paths.

Regardless of the life path, there is a commonality in the activities, achievements, point of view, and style that lead to happiness and success in these after-graduation challenges.

After graduation, success is strongly dependent on personal commitment to the mission of the organization. Contributions are most likely to occur when the new employee enjoys his situation, is enthused with the opportunities, is committed to the mission, and is comfortable enough with self and personal life to be free to work for others. Each organization will have identified desired attributes of employees, and these will be unique to the organization.

From this viewpoint our program educational objectives desire that within the first few years after graduation, our graduates will possess:

Competencies – skill in tools and techniques that are fundamental to the job - many of which need to be learned after graduation.

Professionalism – partnership in the mission and within the human context of the enterprise - ethics, effectiveness, and awareness of the broad context of the detailed work

Balance – a wise self-direction to life, community, health, and self view that finds the right balance between personal choices, which energizes self and others and enables effectiveness in relationships with others.