They know everything about the design. It's their baby. Vrana says he still has a copy of his senior design project. Along with two other students, he designed a plant to manufacture methyl tertiary butyl ether, a gasoline additive. Indeed, Seider and Kivnick have compiled more than 100 design problems used in class over the years in a report that is being used in colleges and universities both here and abroad.
Polymers are chemical compounds used in a wide variety of man-made products and materials.
Kivnick explains that around the third week of the semester, shell-shock hits the students. That is when they stop being students and start to become engineers. They realize what they are facing. They also find out if they have the enthusiasm necessary for this work, Kivnick explains. Some people have jobs where they come in and yawn all day and then go home.