Texas A & M Department Of Chemical Engineering Website Analysis

Juliette Fillault Professor Zimmermann ENGL 2311 5 September 2024 Improving User Experience: An Analysis of the Texas A&M Department of Chemical Engineering Website Introduction Texas A&M University, or Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, is a school with around eighty thousand students (“Texas A&M University Facts”). With fifteen departments (“Facts and Figures” [Department of Engineering]), Texas A&M’s College of Engineering is one of the most renowned in the country, ranking seventh in the U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges 2024" (qtd. in the “Rankings” section). In the fall semester of 2023, nine hundred eighty-four students were enrolled in the Chemical Engineering Department of Texas A&M University, while forty-five total

The Chemical Engineering website, https://engineering.tamu.edu/chemical/index.html, includes helpful information for prospective students, as well as most of the facts previously stated, but there is always room for improvement. Audience and Purpose The audience of the Chemical Engineering website is potential students, ranging from transfers, freshman, or even graduate students seeking to advance their knowledge. When these students access the engineering website, they are likely overwhelmed with decision making and anxious to start–or continue–college. They are looking for simple information that will influence their decision when choosing a university. The purpose of something, according to Technical Communication, is “what you want to accomplish with the document you are producing” (Markel et al.

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