Professional Development II

Program Description:

The Process Operations program curriculum is provided by Itasca Community College (ICC) and was created utilizing existing ICC course curriculum where possible, e.g., industrial math, technical writing, physics, etc. The Process Operations curriculum was created with emphasis on the technical and hands-on skills required for process technicians.

The specialized course development was divided into the following three areas: Process Fundamentals, Industrial Technologies, & Professional Development. Professional Development includes the following courses:

• Professional Development II: Industrial work teams and individual responsibilities
• Professional Development III: Introduction to Root Cause Failure Analysis and Industrial Quality Control concepts
• Professional Development IV: Documenting the Capstone Project

Course Description:

ENGT 1330 Process Operations Professional II is intended to give students an opportunity to develop professional and project management skills needed in the process operations industry. It is the first in a series of courses on professional development.

Course goals and outcomes include:

• Students will demonstrate resourcefulness with skills including internet browsing, searching within a database, manual referencing, and subject matter expertise.
• Students will complete a comprehensive capstone design project in a team environment and submit a professional report describing that project.
• Students will demonstrate teamwork skills and work in a collaborative group.
• Students will work in a team to demonstrate project management skills including time, budget, resource, and people managements.

Course Contents:

Course materials include a course syllabus, three PowerPoint presentations, a team contract document, four student competency documents, three project documents, three project rubrics, a Gnatt Chart document, and three course capstone documents.

The 1-page Process Operations Program Overview document includes information about the National Science Foundation grant project that resulted in the development of this curriculum. 

The 3-page syllabus includes a course description, fundamental goals and outcomes, course scope, performance expectations, and more.

The PowerPoint presentations cover topics such as team development, professionalism in the workplace, and the course design project.

The student competency documents include information about each unit of the course, including outcomes, lectures, demonstrations, labs, and homework. 

Below is a list of the files included in the .zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

Professional II (21 files, 4.4 MB)

• Team Member Citizenship Activity (Team Member Citizenship.pdf 217 KB)
• Team Development Stages (Team Development Stages Lesson.pptx 755 KB)
• Team Contract (Team Contract Importance and Example.pdf 123 KB)
• Professionalism in the Workplace (Professionalism in the Workplace.pptx 1.2 MB)
• ENGT 1330 Process Operations Professional II Syllabus (Process Operations Professional II Syllabus Rev A.docx 37 KB)
• Weekly Update Presentations (PIGS Weekly Update Presentation Description.docx 25 KB)
• Weekly Update Presentations Rubric (Peer Evaluation – Presentation Rubric.docx 23 KB)
• NSF Grant READ ME – Process Operations Program Overview (NSF Grant READ ME.docx 13 KB)
• Individual Design Project (Individual Design Project.docx 33 KB)
• Individual Design Project Rubric (Individual Design Project Rubric.xlsx 18 KB)
• House of Cards Project (House of Cards Project.docx 31 KB)
• House of Cards Project Rubric (House of Cards Project Score Sheet – Rubric and Results.xlsx 23 KB)
• Gnatt Chart (Gnatt Chart Explanation.docx 29 KB)
• Design Project (Design Project Scope and Background Research.pptx 1.8 MB)
• Student Competency 4 (Competency 4 – Capstone Project.docx 62 KB)
• Student Competency 3 (Competency 3 – Project Management.docx 63 KB)
• Student Competency 2 (Competency 2 – Group Development.docx 63 KB)
• Student Competency 1 (Competency 1 – Resourcefullness.docx 63 KB)
• Capstone Project Layout and Formatting (Capstone Project Report Layout and Formatting.docx 26 KB)
• Capstone Project (Capstone Project Description.docx 34 KB)
• Capstone Project Component Overview (Capstone Project Component Overview.docx