Resolution
for Approval of a New Master’s of Engineering Degree in Particle Technology
WHEREAS, there is a strong demand for
engineers and scientists with particle technology training, and
WHEREAS, the acute need for engineers
and scientists well-trained in particle technology spans industries that
include bulk and specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, minerals, construction,
coatings, detergents and foods, and
WHEREAS, these industries are critical
to meeting the grand technological challenges of sustainability, security, and
economic competitiveness facing the State of Delaware the United States, and
WHEREAS, Delaware has the distinctive
opportunity to define what constitutes the core curriculum of particle technology
and develop it into a coherent pedagogical subdiscipline
of the larger engineering disciplines, and
WHEREAS, the particle technology
master’s degree program addresses important and currently unmet needs in
engineering education, and
WHEREAS, the proposed program will
contribute to the University's "Path to Prominence": to become a
premier research and graduate university; be it therefore
RESOLVED, that the Faculty Senate recommends provisional approval for five years of the establishment of a new Master’s of Engineering in Particle Technology