Objectives

1. Understand the engineering design process as it pertains to nuclear nuclear technology.
2. Obtain insight from seniors on how you can customize your undergraduate education at UW to shape and to fit your career interests.

Assignment

• Choose a design team to interview.
• Prepare a set of questions.
• Meet your interviewees.
• Post a written reflection on your blog.
  1. 50 points. Summarize the information you learned from the seniors.
     1. 5 points. What is the project?
     2. 5 points. What inspired this project, what is innovative about it, and how can it benefit the nuclear industry?
     3. 5 points. What would be the ethical implications of introducing this product into society?
     4. 5 points. What steps did the design process entail, and what are some nuclear-specific design challenges that were faced?
     5. 5 points. How did the design course integrate different subjects and skills that the seniors attained throughout their undergraduate education?
     6. 5 points. What career paths are the seniors looking forward to?
     7. 5 points. What are some different career paths within the field of nuclear engineering.
     8. 5 points. What skills are important to develop as an undergraduate to prepare for that career?
     9. 5 points. What are some resources at UW that you might use to help guide your undergraduate education to prepare for a career in the nuclear engineering field?
     10. 5 points. Other questions that you had.
  2. 50 points. Reflect on a set of goals for your undergraduate education.
     • What skills would like to develop?
     • What topics would you like to learn more about?
     • What kind of opportunities would you want to seek?
     • What kinds resources might you seek out?