Transition of Knowledge Gained in the Undergraduate Engineering Experimental Laboratories into Engineering Graduate's Job in the Industry

Abstract

Mainly, this paper is written to address an engineering educator pool that has limited firsthand knowledge of the industry work scope. Specifically, members that gain necessary academic credential and gain a faculty job without having professional industry work exposures. Transition of knowledge gained in the undergraduate engineering experimental laboratories into engineering graduate's job in the industry is examined here. The concept was examined by performing a survey of some random B.S. in Mechanical Engineering program graduates. The survey mainly summarizes and charts a) the applicability of the laboratory courses taken during the completion of the Mechanical Engineering program to their job function and b) the ranking of the relevant contents of the laboratory courses for their current job function. The review of the knowledge gained in the undergraduate engineering laboratories with the feedback from some of the B.S.M.E. graduates working in the industry, points to a specific direction; “design support”.