What differentiates the EvMM graduate program from a traditional graduate program?
EvMM is different from conventional graduate studies in four important ways. First, research in EvMM is conducted within interdisciplinary student teams in which each member possesses special expertise that can be applied to a research area. EvMM also employs a multiple-mentoring model for advising involving faculty from across the university. Second, students participate in an industrial internship of two to three months’ duration during which they learn about the manufacturing process, and waste management issues. Part of this time is spent developing a research area from which a thesis topic can be derived. Third, the EvMM research approach involves casting the research problem in a systems format. This entails defining the system, understanding its component parts and how they function together, physically or mathematically modeling the system, applying constraints (e.g., minimize waste production, maximize profits), and solving the problem. The final step is to make recommendation
