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Outcome 4: Ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice

Level 5 performance characterized by:

  • Uses computer-based and other resources effectively in assignments/projects
  • Seeks information on problems from multiple resources
  • Is able to interpret and understand information from a variety of resources
  • Maintains current, state-of-the-art abilities in PC use
  • Is able to learn and implement process simulation software
  • Understand the organization and use of the library

Level 3 performance characterized by:

  • Unsafe lab procedures observed infrequently
  • Develops a simplistic experimental plan of data gathering, does not recognize entire scope of study (e.g. not all parameters affecting the results are investigated)
  • Data collected are not all documented, units are missing, or some measurements are not recorded
    Experimental procedures most often followed, but occasional oversight leads to loss of experimental efficiency and/or loss of data
  • Needs some guidance in selecting appropriate equipment and instrumentation
  • Is tentative in operation of instruments and process equipment
    Applies appropriate theory to data when prompted to do so, but misinterprets physical significance of theory or variable involved; makes errors in unit conversions
  • Is aware of measurement error but does not account for it statistically or does so at a minimal level
  • Seeks information for experiment(s) from a few sources - mainly from the textbook or the instructor

Level 1 performance characterized by:

  • Practices unsafe, risky behaviors in lab
  • No systematic plan of data gathering; experimental data collection is disorganized, even random, and incomplete
  • Data are poorly documented
  • Does not follow experimental procedure
  • Cannot select the appropriate equipment and instrumentation required to run the experiment(s)
  • Does not operate instrumentation and process equipment, does so incorrectly or requires frequent supervision
  • Makes no attempt to relate data to theory
  • Is unaware of measurement error
  • Seeks no extra information for experiments other than what is provided by instructor



Highlights
Jack Puleo has won the NSF Early Career Development Award
Jack Puleo, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to study swash zone sediment transport. The swash zone is the area near the shoreline where waves wash up and down the beach face.

The five-year $444,229 award is aimed at developing a broader understanding of the physics of coastal sediment transport in this area, thereby leading to significant improvement in the ability to predict such coastal phenomena as beach erosion and beach nourishment performance.

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