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> Office of the Provost > Student Outcomes Assessment > Advising Plans
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Advising Goals
Provide students regular access to faculty advisors
throughout the academic year. Regular office hours
are established and posted, and extended during the
first week of pre-registration each semester. Faculty
are also available by individual appointment. Advising
consists of providing counsel in the following
broad areas: academics (scheduling, course
selection, performance assessment, designing programs
of study, learning survival skills), career
counseling, time management, resource availability
and management, honors programs, scholarships,
student exchange programs, and graduate school
opportunities.
Advising Policy
In the mechanical engineering and mechanical
engineering technology programs, new students are assigned
advisors at the beginning of each semester. Students
remain with that advisor throughout the undergraduate
program. Students may change advisors at their request.
In the industrial engineering program, incoming
freshman and transfer students are assigned to a
freshman faculty advisor for the first year. At the
end of their first year, students are assigned
permanent advisors. Students may change advisors
at their request.
Faculty advisors are available to students throughout
the academic year. Students obtain advice during
posted office hours, during the extended-office-hour
week corresponding to the first week of class
preregistration each semester, and at other times
convenient to both the faculty and student. Advising
also takes place in the engineering orientation classes
(ME 101 and ENGR 101) where students explore
the various career options offered in this Department as
well as the College of Engineering.
Students are required to see an advisor before they
are allowed to pre-register. This is accomplished by
requiring students to see their advisors in order to obtain
their PDF forms containing individual access codes.
Advising is encouraged and recommended at any other
time throughout the year as individual needs arise.
A formal advising policy is in place in the M&IE
Department (effective October 1995). This policy
clearly delineates tasks for the Faculty, Staff,
Certifying Officers, and the Department Head. The
policy is somewhat lengthy and has not been included
in this report; a copy of the policy is available from
the Department.
A formal internship program is available to students
in the Department. The goal of this program is to
assist students with summer job experiences in the
industrial sector. Students participating in the program
receive considerable advice regarding summer
employment and longer term opportunities with
various employers.
The Department recently instituted a Mentors
program. Upper level students mentor
incoming students. While not meant to take the
place of advising, this program provides
additional counsel for incoming students.
Recent Changes and Future Plans
- To Improve Quality of Advising
- A new advising policy was put into effect in
October 1995. The policy is lengthy and is therefore not
included in this report; it can be provided upon request.
The advising policy delineates advising duties for Faculty,
Staff, Program Certifying Officers, and the Department
Head.
- To Improve Accessibility of Advisors
- Prior to October 1995, a Departmental Advising Policy
did not exit. The new policy clearly delineates
roles of all involved in the advising process.
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