Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs II

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Pestaina, Florida International University; Tiana Solis, Florida International University; Peter J. Clarke, Florida International Univeristy

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Computing & Information Technology

University of the West Indies in his native Barbados, W.I. A member of the FIU-SCIS faculty for more than 30 years, Mr. Pestaina has taught at all levels of the curriculum, receiving awards for excellence in teaching on five occasions. He served the School as an Undergraduate Advisor for 15 of those years, and has served continuously as a member of the School’s Curriculum/Undergraduate Committees. Mr. Pestaina was a principal architect of the School’s program assessment processes, and the SCIS undergraduate program Assessment Coordinator from 2006 through 2013, leading successful re-accreditation of the BS in Computer Science program in 2004, and 2010. Mr. Pestaina has been a Reader and Question Leader of the College

Conference Session

Assessment in Construction Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claire L. A. Dancz, Arizona State University; Kristen Parrish, Arizona State University; Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh; Amy E. Landis, Arizona State University

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Construction

collaborative design and integrated project delivery. She holds a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Civil Engineering Systems from University of California Berkeley.Dr. Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Bilec is an assistant professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Bilec’s research program focuses on sustainable healthcare, the built environment, and life cycle assessment. She is interested in improving the overall environmental perfor- mance of buildings while connecting the occupants in a more thoughtful manner. She is the Principal Investigator in a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research

Conference Session

FPD 8: Teaching Design in the First Year

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ann Saterbak, Rice University; Tracy Volz, Rice University

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First-Year Programs

presentations, technical poster design, and pedagogical innovation. She earned a BA in English from the University of Iowa and a PhD in English from Rice University. Page 24.203.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Assessing Knowledge and Application of the Design Process in a First-Year Engineering Design CourseAbstractAuthentic, client-based projects form the foundation of a one-semester freshman design course atRice University. The course is an elective course available for all freshman students in theSchool of Engineering. First-year students learn the

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Pedagogy and Innovation

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip J. Parker P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Ben Bocher, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Austin Polebitski, University of Wisconsin Platteville

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Environmental Engineering

rural water use, water resource system man- agement, the use of forecasting tools in short and long term decision making, and the impacts climate change will have on statewide natural resources. He is an active member of ASCE-EWRI, AWRA, and the International Conference on Engineering and Ecohydrology for Fish Passage. Page 24.205.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Assessing Student Writing Competencies in Environmental Engineering CoursesIntroductionStudents enrolled in the environmental engineering program at the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Stephen R. Hoffmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University and Central Queensland University; Ranjani Lakshman Rao, Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University; Abigail R. Jahiel, Illinois Wesleyan University; Thomas P. Seager, Arizona State University; Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Page 24.206.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Assessing sustainability knowledge: producing a framework of critical conceptsAbstractAlthough engineering professional societies and other governing bodies emphasize the necessityof sustainability in engineering education, these principles have proven difficult to integrate intoexisting engineering curricula. This paper describes activities designed to generate a frameworkof concepts engineering faculty members not familiar with sustainability can use to incorporatesustainability into their mid-level undergraduate courses. The research team conducted a varietyof qualitative studies, including reviewing

Conference Session

Innovative Graphics Instruction

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University

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Engineering Design Graphics

a program chair for the Southeastern Section and has served as the Engineering Design Graphics Division’s vice chair and chair and as the Instructional Unit’s secretary, vice chair, and chair. Page 24.210.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Assessing the Technology Management Preparation of Design TechnologistsIntroductionA longitudinal investigation into the technology management preparation of design technologistsbased on student performance on a technology management certification examination was begunin the spring of 2012

Conference Session

FPD 1: The Path to Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shelley Lorimer, Grant MacEwan University; Jeffrey A. Davis, Grant MacEwan University

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #9596Consistency in Assessment of Pre-Engineering SkillsDr. Shelley Lorimer P.Eng., Grant MacEwan University Dr. Shelley Lorimer, P.Eng. is Chair of the Bachelor of Science in Engineering Transfer Program (BSEN) at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. She teaches undergraduate courses in statics and dynamics, as well as courses in engineering professionalism. She is currently participating in a research project with Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures in the oil sands and hydrocarbon recovery group doing reservoir simulation of enhanced oil recovery processes. She has a Ph.D. in numerical modeling

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ruth E. H. Wertz, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #10367Information Literacy Skill Development and Assessment in EngineeringDr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West LafayetteMr. Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West LafayetteProf. Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette Prof. Van Epps has a BA in engineering science from Lafayette College, her MSLS from Catholic Uni- versity of America, a M.Eng. in Industrial Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is currently working on her PhD in Engineering Education at Purdue.Ruth E. H. Wertz, Purdue University, West LafayetteDr. Kerrie Anna Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette Anna Douglas is a

Conference Session

Global Competency and What Makes a Successful Engineer

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University; Miriam Regina Simon, Ohio State University

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International

Ph.D. from Michigan State in 1974, he joined the faculty of the Agricultural Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota where he served until 1987.Mrs. Miriam Regina Simon, Ohio State University Page 23.209.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013   Assessing Engineering Global Competencies – Importance and PreparationAbstractIn the last decade and a half, there has been particular interest and action towards globalizationand preparation of undergraduate engineers for the practice of engineering in a global context.To

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Lorelle A Meadows, University of Michigan

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Women in Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Assessing Gender Differences in First-Year Student MotivationAbstractFor the past decade, engineering schools have developed a variety of models for introducingfirst-year students to their chosen field. These range from surveys of engineering disciplines andintroductions to problem solving and algorithmic thinking, to design and professional skills inproject-based learning courses. Such courses have greatly enhanced the participants’ earlyunderstanding of the engineering field, improving student understanding of the field andallowing students to make better choices of disciplines and, consequently, increasing theirsatisfaction with their engineering education1.Despite the growth

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rex C Kanu, Ball State University

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Manufacturing

Paper ID #7476Assessing Manufacturing Capital Investments in the Global MarketDr. Rex C Kanu, Ball State University Dr. Rex Kanu is the coordinator of the manufacturing engineering technology program in the Department of Technology at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he teaches courses in plastics materials and processing. Page 23.212.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Assessing Manufacturing Capital Investments

Conference Session

Special Initiatives and Programs at Two-Year Colleges

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Two Year College Division

conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of organizations. He is a senior member of IEEE and is a member of ASME, SIAM, ASEE and AGU. He is actively involved in CELT activities and regularly participates and presents at the Lilly Conference. He has been the recipient of several Faculty Learning Community awards. He is also very active in assessment activities and has presented more than thirty five papers at various Conferences and Assessment Institutes. His posters in the areas of Assessment, Bloom’s Taxonomy and Socratic Inquisition have received widespread acclaim from several scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies. He has received the Assessment of

Conference Session

First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Samantha Islam, University of South Alabama; Samuel H. Russ, University of South Alabama; Kevin D. White Ph.D., University of South Alabama

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First-Year Programs

Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Assessment of Spatial Visualization Skills in Freshman SeminarAbstractThis paper presents an initiative taken at the University of South Alabama to assess and improvethe spatial visualization skills of the first year freshman engineering students. The University ofSouth Alabama is currently listed as a team member of the NSF funded ENGAGE (EngagingStudents in Engineering) program. In an effort to implement one of the three strategies ofENGAGE to improve student retention, a spatial visualization component was introduced in theFreshman Seminar/ Introduction to Engineering course in the Fall of 2012. The objective ofincorporating spatial visualization into Freshman Seminar was to provide the

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Franke; David Devine

Session 3649 Public Records as a Source for Assessment Data David P. Devine and Bruce Franke Indiana University Purdue University Fort WayneAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to present how program assessment data can be gathered frominformation available from public sources in the government. Public records areinvestigated as a source of assessment data. Particularly, this paper deals with records thatare well suited for civil engineering technology, civil engineering, and related degreeprograms. These records include engineering licensing records of individuals, RequestsFor Proposals/Requests for

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramesh Narang

Course and Program Assessment – Methodology for Continuous Improvement Ramesh Narang Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology Indiana University-Purdue University Fort WayneTo meets the needs of accreditation and for continuous improvement, a methodology has beendeveloped to assess the curriculum in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial EngineeringTechnology at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.The methodology consists of assessing the curriculum at two levels of operation, known as thecourse-level and the program-level of assessment. The course-level assessment consists ofevaluating specific

Conference Session

Understanding Engineering Design

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zsuzsanna Szabo; Reid Bailey

Validation of Approaches to Assess Design Process Knowledge Reid Bailey and Zsuzsanna Szabo College of Engineering/Educational Psychology University of ArizonaABSTRACTRigorously assessing students’ design process knowledge is essential for understanding how tobest create learning environments to facilitate the development of such knowledge. Suchassessment is also quite difficult and hence, no assessment tool capable of measuring designprocess knowledge of every student in a large college exists. Faculty from both the Colleges ofEngineering and Education at the University of Arizona are developing such a tool. In thispaper, results from

Conference Session

A through K and Beyond

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Dettman

Effective, Efficient, Direct Assessment of Programmatic Outcomes Matthew A. Dettman Western Kentucky UniversityWestern Kentucky University is in the late stages of completing it’s first ever EAC of ABETaccreditation process. The self study reports for civil, electrical, and mechanical engineeringwere submitted in July of 2004, the site visit took place in November of 2004, and the finalrecommendations of the evaluators will be presented to the ABET board in July of 2005. Whilea discussion of that visit is not allowed at this time, a mock visit was performed by a formerABET evaluator in the summer of 2004 who found all 3 programs to be in very good shape

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Mork; Leonard Bohmann

Outcomes Assessment Embedded into an ECE Course Project Leonard J. Bohmann and Bruce A. Mork Michigan TechAbstractIn an effort to reduce the overhead associated with outcomes assessment, the Electrical andComputer Engineering Department at Michigan Tech has developed tools which extractassessment data from information collected for normal departmental operations. The ECEdepartment has developed one such tool to assess the writing skills of students in their Junioryear. A conceptual design project is assigned in a required course (the most recent project wasan off-the-grid power system for a remote cabin) with students

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

Session 3249 The Case for Ongoing Student Course Assessment Abi Aghayere College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST) Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractMost colleges in the United States use end-of-term course assessment as the main feedbackmechanism from students. By using this method of summative assessment, students are able torate the course, the performance of the instructor, and what they have learned in the course,among other things. One drawback of the end-of-term feedback is that the current students arenot able to benefit

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy Study

Assessing Visualization Abilities in Minority Engineering Students N. E. Study Department of Engineering, ENTC, INTC Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA 23806Abstract The numbers of minority students in the academic areas of science and engineering(S&E) have increased significantly in recent years. Despite initial success in recruitment efforts,the numbers of these minority students not completing their studies still remain higher than thatof their non-minority peers. Visualization is a significant factor in the creation of mental modelsand in interacting with the often abstract concepts that are important for success in

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Pete Hanlon; John Hill; Bryan Goda; Lisa Shay

Session 2532 Outcome Assessment at the U. S. Military Academy Lisa A. Shay, Bryan S. Goda, Peter Hanlon, and John D. Hill Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 {lisa.shay/bryan.goda/peter.hanlon/john.hill}@usma.eduAbstract - The United States Military Academy (USMA) recently had seven of its programsfavorably reviewed by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) and the ComputingAccreditation Commission (CAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET). The favorable comments of the

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Muslim Worlds: Introductory Workshop

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sedki Riad; Mostafa Kamel

Page 1 of 23 Session Number Engineer ing Education in Egypt: Sur vey and Assessment Sedki M. Riad and Mostafa M. Kamel Pr ofessor , Vir ginia Tech / Pr ofessor Emer itus, Cair o Univer sity, and PfCE ConsultantAbstr actThis paper provides an overview of Engineering Education in Egypt. It surveys bothgovernmental as well as private institutions. The paper discusses the challenges facingEngineering education institutions in the country as well as critiques the new private universityexperiment that began in 1996. The paper also discusses undergraduate curriculum issuesthrough examination of samples of Electronic and Communication curriculum from some of

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Dark; Mary Huba; Kevin Saunders; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

Session 1657 Implementation and Assessment of Industrial Engineering Curriculum Reform Sigurdur Olafsson, Kevin Saunders, John Jackman, Frank Peters, Sarah Ryan, Veronica Dark, and Mary Huba Iowa State UniversityAbstractWe describe a curriculum reform project that aims to improve the industrial engineeringcurriculum through a web-based learning environment that engages students in active andcollaborative learning. This environment focuses on engineering problems solving, increasedinformation technology content, and the higher order cognitive skills

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Schwartz

Managing and Assessing Software Engineering Group Projects Donald R. Schwartz Millsaps CollegeWhile the benefits of assigning group projects are numerous, managing and evaluating them cansometimes become daunting tasks. Among the biggest challenges include determiningindividual grades for group members and attempting to reflect the “real world” by mixing up themakeup of each group and the tasks to be completed. After trying various approaches and stylesfor more than a decade, I think that I have developed a useful pedagogy for managing groupprojects, one that attempts to allow each student to work on different parts of different projects,with a

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janice Duy; Scott Dunning

Web-Based Implementation of Energy Assessment Service Bruce Segee, Ph.D., PE 5708 Barrows Hall Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Maine Orono, ME 04469-5708 segee@eece.maine.edu Tel. No.: (207)581-2212 Janice Duy Emilie Lachance Scott Dunning Evan Chowdhury 5708 Barrows Hall Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus Carter; Claudia Milz

A Case-Study of Assessment in Materials Laboratory Claudia Milz, Rufus L. Carter University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 / Marymount University, Arlington, VA 2220 Materials engineering students are often ill prepared to enter the workforce upongraduation. While students master the content knowledge they often lack critical skills forsuccess. Our industry feedback of internship students indicates weakness in the areas of:technical writing, critical thinking, professional attitude & teamwork, analysis, reasoning anddecision making. We have examined the effectiveness of new teaching and assessment methods in theMaterials

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Land

Large Scale Implementation of Outcome-Based Course Assessment Ronald Land Associate Professor, College of Engineering School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs The Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstract Engineering and Engineering Technology programs across the country are implementingnew assessment methods conforming to ABET EC2K and TC2K criteria [1] by developingoutcomes-based assessment strategies to demonstrate program-level compliance. The newABET criteria represent a philosophical shift in accreditation from a facilities-based to anoutcomes-based approach. This paper describes an assessment strategy

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Information Technology

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps; Michael Bailey

Session 1450 Assessing Information Validity in an Internet Age C. Richard G. Helps, Michael G. Bailey Brigham Young UniversityAbstractStudents and technical professionals have come to rely heavily on the Internet as a technicalreference resource. They need to be aware of the validity issues of these resources and how toassess validity.Historically technical professionals have obtained information from a variety of printedresources. The validity of the printed information was assured through a combination of internaland external mechanisms, the most prominent of which was

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pape

Session 1922 Linking Student Achievement to Program Outcomes Assessment David A. Pape Saginaw Valley State UniversityAbstractIn recent years, there have been numerous publications outlining the assessment plansthat various institutions have put into place in response to the ABET EC 2000 criteria.In this paper an outcomes assessment process which includes direct measures of studentachievement in engineering classes is described. It is postulated that in a well-designedcourse, the student learning objectives for that course will necessarily have a highcorrelation with overall program

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Thomas; Martin Parker

Session No. 2532 Topical Learning as an Outcomes Assessment Tool Tom Thomas, Martin Parker University of South Alabama, Mobile, AlabamaAbstractThe University of South Alabama (USA) Electrical and Computer Engineering Departmentteaches an introductory electrical circuits class at the sophomore level, in which it is importantthat certain critical topics be mastered for future use in the curriculum. Historically, the classwas infamous for drop/failure rates in excess of 50%. A restructured class format was found tobe effective, reducing the failure rate to less than 10% over four