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Role of Faculty
Faculty in the department play the role of content-specific advisors. Each of our faculty is conducting world class research in a variety of areas. Their role is to help students choose appropriate areas of interest and advise on technical elective courses to take.
Faculty groups have been created in various areas of Chemical & Biomolecular engineering, including the environment, polymers, biotech and bioprocess, etc. The role of faculty mentor is to provide you guidance on issues related to your professional development.
This may take the form of discussing career options, helping you articulate long term goals, guiding you to other professionals that may help resolve issues in your life, and offering encouragement to achieve your potential. The faculty mentor is not expected to help you with the mechanics of being a student, but to be a person you can talk to about becoming a successful engineer.
Faculty mentors are the primary source for:
- Information about the profession of chemical engineering
- Help in formulating career objectives
- Assistance in dealing profession issues
- Discussing undergraduate independent study projects
- Help in deciding whether to add or drop a course
- Learning about graduate school
- Getting recommendation letters
see: faculty advising groups
You may contact faculty mentors individually to make an appointment as frequently as the need arises. Do not wait for an invitation if you feel things are not going as they should; contact faculty mentors for advice.
Faculty mentors are just that - friend, and advisor, but they are not psychic. They cannot know the educational and life goals of the student. Only you, the student, can express needs and objectives in terms of a concrete program leading to graduation.
Professors and students build professional relationships to their mutual benefit. We believe that the advising program will enable faculty mentors to act as excellent professional references for the students. Moreover, students learn what chemical engineers do by direct contact with people who are chemical engineers: the faculty mentors.
The advisor system is essential to the efficient operation of a flexible program and you are encouraged to participate actively in the system. Students should be aware that, because of faculty travel, commitments, etc., the scheduling of same-day appointments will not always be feasible. Thus, students are encouraged to make appointments in advance, particularly if the posted office hours are not convenient.
General Academic Advising
Brian Endres and Holly Prouty are the academic advisors for all undergraduates in the department. Students are encouraged to visit often with any questions about their academic progress and career search. Personalized schedules can be developed for each student including cooping and interning options.
Brian and Holly are the primary resource for:
- Receiving timely advice on the proper sequencing of required courses such that all prerequisites are observed.
- The mechanics of being an Ohio State student
- Resolving course scheduling problems
- Recommendations for courses to satisfy the humanities, social sciences, and elective requirements.
- Obtaining supplemental career advice
Tasks and responsibilities include...
Deliberate with students about which courses to take, career goals, progress toward successful completion of degree, course schedules and study habits.
Inform students of degree requirements, resources for study, and additional campus resources
Keep Records: Advising transcripts, logs, notes, degree progress checklists.
Act as an Advocate for students by writing letters of recommendation for jobs, internships, graduate & professional schools, awards: engaging in a petition process with students: working behind the scenes on behalf of advisees.
Refer a student to a person or office when student's needs extend beyond the reach of his or her professional; expertise: adjustment problems, assessing learning disabilities, personal crises, grievances, career placement.
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