Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lokesh Padhye, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gretchen Goldman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nadia Szeinbaum, Georgia Institute of Technology; Scott Rogers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Recep Goktas, Georgia Institute of Technology; Zohre Kurt, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

improve an engineeringgraduate program as demonstrated by recent, documented survey studies conducted in anenvironmental engineering graduate program. We extended the work done in prior studiesemploying paper surveys by conducting an online student assessment for the first time in theprogram history. With regard to survey design and analysis methods, we mostly adopted themethods established in the prior studies.The online format was adopted primarily to increase the accessibility of the survey to students inour graduate program. Other benefits of the online format include a more efficient distributionprocess and an increased ability to preserve confidentiality in comparison to the paper format.The online format also allowed us to compile and