Participation by industry, agency professionals, and land managers is often a component of these projects. Faculty grading and client evaluation assess student skills. Basic student competencies are acceptable. Quantitative skills need to be improved as evidenced by performance on applied problem sets and examinations. Communication Skills Student competencies in written and oral communication are variable.
Some students are still totally reticent and are also ineffective writers.
Other students are fully capable of producing professional level reports in oral and written form. Students need to learn to work together better, how to work together in class, and how group dynamics and group interactions affect outcomes. Computer skills are adequate, but need to be improved. When students are given structured problems, they perform well. However, as the degree of structure in the problem decreases, more students have difficulty addressing the problem effectively.