An Ivy League university on the East Coast of USA has issued a recall for some 2012 graduates who were educated at the university from 2008 to 2012. These graduates may have had wrong courses taught to them and this may cause the graduates to use wrong techniques in designing major engineering projects. With this defect, some of the engineering projects they build might collapse.
The recall affects 99 graduates in total: 51 of them are in the USA, 17 are in Canada and the remaining are in other locations. The university will notify parents and employers of effected graduates, and reteach the courses that were taught to them incorrectly to resolve the issue.
The graduates are being recalled because it appears that structural engineering students by mistake were taught chemical engineering in some of the courses. Furthermore some chemical engineering students were taught structural engineering courses.
Two separate recalls are taking place, and they don’t involve the same students or the same degrees.
It’s hardly the kind of news the university needs. It is busy advertising that it is one of the top five universities in the USA. The recall is having significant impact on recruitment from the important markets of India and China where the recall news has made front page headlines.
The President of the university, Dr John Chrysler has taken a brave action in spite of some senior managers advising him that the problem was not that serious. In fact Dr Chrysler had little choice, he had to recall the graduates or risk being hauled into federal court.
