Students are comfortable meeting with professors after class or during office hours. The teaching assistants are primarily rated as competent or better and provide reasonable levels of assistance to students. Lab work is viewed as valuable and a complement to course materials. Most students are quite comfortable with the lab equipment. The students are quite confident about their performance in engineering courses and college math courses as well as their overall academic ability.
Students demonstrate a high level of confidence that engineering is the right major.
Students believe that programs available through MEP and WIEP should be extended to the general population of the College. The extent to which professors place more value on research than on teaching. Background The University of Colorado at Boulder was one of 29 institutions across the U.S. participating in a survey to examine the academic climate. A total of 840 surveys were mailed in April 1998 to undergraduates in the College of Engineering and Applied Science including all female undergraduates, all minority males, and a matched stratification of nonminority males.