Military On Campus: A Joint Umr Army Program Providing Non Traditional Master's Degrees

Through efforts to bring non-traditional students into the classroom, the Environmental Engineering Program at University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) has developed a program to offer Master’s degrees to US Army Officers completing the Engineering Officer’s Advanced Course (EOAC) at Fort Leonard Wood. Th...

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Published inAssociation for Engineering Education - Engineering Library Division Papers p. 5.451.1
Main Authors Fitch, Mark W, Burken, Joel G, Adams, Craig D
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Atlanta American Society for Engineering Education-ASEE 18.06.2000
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Army
Colleges & universities
Engineering education
Engineering schools
Environmental engineering
Military engineering
Regeneration
Students
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Summary:Through efforts to bring non-traditional students into the classroom, the Environmental Engineering Program at University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) has developed a program to offer Master’s degrees to US Army Officers completing the Engineering Officer’s Advanced Course (EOAC) at Fort Leonard Wood. The program was formulated in conjunction with the Army Engineering School. The goal-oriented program provides a limited amount of credit for the EOAC coursework completed by the officers, subject to evaluation by program faculty. These officers/students are allowed flexibility to develop their own plan of study that meets the UMR criteria, while still permitting them to complete their non-thesis degree in a total of nine months. While this program met some resistance when initially proposed, it has since been extremely successful, receiving broad praise from UMR and the Army. The program is now seen as a “win-win” venture as the Army students are allowed to receive a superb, flexible degree from a prominent engineering school and bring that knowledge to their profession in the military. The program added minimal additional teaching load to the Environmental Engineering Program faculty, and UMR benefits from these officer/students with their high degree of professionalism, a drive to learn, and a vast background of experiences. The Process The mission of the Environmental Engineering Program at UMR is: ‘to train and educate future leaders in environmental engineering.’ The program went through a revitalization period, hiring three new professors in a three-year period for 1993 – 1996. As part of the revitalization, the program faculty looked to expand the program to include non-traditional students and to look 1