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What is CME 101? It is your survival guide to chemical engineering at UK

What is CME 101? It is your survival guide to chemical engineering at UK. Chemical engineering discipline and curriculum Support structure: Students/Faculty/Staff Student opportunities: Co-Op, Career Fair, AIChE Stress and study skills Library resources Problem solving/Experimental Data

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What is CME 101? It is your survival guide to chemical engineering at UK

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  1. What is CME 101?It is your survival guide to chemical engineering at UK • Chemical engineering discipline and curriculum • Support structure: Students/Faculty/Staff • Student opportunities: Co-Op, Career Fair, AIChE • Stress and study skills • Library resources • Problem solving/Experimental Data • Ethics, Life long learning.

  2. Chances of success are greatly enhanced if…. • You are motivated and enthusiastic about learning – you are responsible for your education and professional development. • You understand the curriculum and work hard to integrate information from one semester to a next. • Take advantage of extracurricular activities – AIChE, Co-Op, Research projects • You develop career goals consistent with your talents and interest and evaluate these on a regular basis.

  3. People at UK! • Students • Undergraduates • Graduates: MS, Ph.D. (teaching assistants, research assistants) • Post-doctorates • Faculty (Assistant, Associate, Full) • How do you address a professor? • Staff (Chemical Eng, Eng, University) • Administrators (Chemical Eng, Eng, University)

  4. Who is teaching your classes? • Professors ***** • Teaching assistants • Post-docs • Instructors

  5. College of Engineering • 7 departments, 8 programs • Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering • Chemical and Materials Engineering • Civil Engineering • Computer Science • Electrical Engineering • Mechanical Engineering • Mining Engineering • Biomedical Engineering (Graduate Program only)

  6. College of Engineering Structure

  7. Student Support Services –Academic Issues/Difficulty • Course instructor • Your advisor • Now: Jane Riggs, Sue Scheff (3rd floor RGAN) • Spring: Dept advisor (1st floor FPAT) • Dept Director of Undergraduate Studies: Kim Anderson (163 FPAT) • Student Affairs Officer: Bruce Cole (177 FPAT) • Dept Chair: Tate Tsang (177 FPAT) • Associate Dean for Academic Affairs – Donn Hancher (3rd Floor RGAN) • Academic Ombud (109 Bradley Hall, ombud@uky.edu, www.uky.edu/ombud/) • UK Counseling and Testing Center (301 Frazee Hall, www.uky.edu/StudentAffairs/counseling/)

  8. Other Student Resources • Engineering Co-Op/Career Services (Donna Hewitt, Marsha Phillips, Kimberly Coleman, 3rd floor RGAN) • Student Records (Rosie Hicks, 3rd floor RGAN) • Women in Engineering Program (Sue Scheff, 3rd floor RGAN) • Minority in Engineering Program (Taunya Phillips, 3rd floor RGAN) • AIChE student Chapter (Dr. Bhattacharyya) • Engineering Library (3rd floor, FPAT) • Email and computing services (2nd floor, FPAT) • Director of Graduate Studies (Dr. Knutson, 163 FPAT)

  9. Student Rights and Responsibilities • http://www.uky.edu/StudentAffairs/Code/ • Gives information on • Excused absences • Notifying instructor regarding religious holidays • Conflicts, scheduling issues with final exams • Cheating, academic infractions, plagiarism • Key is to be informed before something happens!!!

  10. Engineering e-mail is important The college and department uses this e-mail to keep you informed. You can transfer e-mail to the account that you use.

  11. Homework AssignmentDue – Before Tuesday, Sept 9 • Homework assignment: • Set up engineering account and send me an e-mail. • Get on chemical and materials engineering website and find one chemical engineering professor. In the e-mail to me, list the professors name and one sentence describing his/her research interests.

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