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Work-in-Progress: Monitoring the Attainment of ABET Student Outcomes and Projected Achievement of Program Educational Objectives by Cohort

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Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - PBL with Control Theory, Writing, ABET, and Shaping Ethical Worldviews

Page Count

7

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41694

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https://peer.asee.org/41694

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203

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Ismail Haltas

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Ismail Haltas, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at King's College, graduated from Middle East Technical University Ankara with a BS degree in Civil Engineering. He graduated from the University of California, Davis with MS and Ph.D. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2004 and 2006, respectively. After working as a Water Resources Engineer in Sacramento, California for four years, he started teaching in the Civil Engineering Department of Zirve University in Turkey. During his five-year tenure at Zirve University, he conducted several research projects funded by National Research Agencies while teaching undergraduate and graduate-level courses. Before joining King’s College, Dr. Haltas held a Senior Research Fellow post at Cranfield University, England for two years. He has held the Professional Engineer License in Civil Engineering in California since 2010. His expertise and research foci are flood hazard and risk modeling, scaling in hydraulic and hydrologic processes, and agent-based modeling of complex systems. He mainly teaches courses such as Fluid Mechanics, Dynamics, Hydraulics and Hydrology, Probability and Statistics, and Water Resources Engineering.

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Abstract

In this study, a systematic methodology is proposed to 1) monitor progress in program-level attainment of ABET Student Outcomes and Program Educational Objectives using the collected assessment data, 2) relate the projected Program Educational Objectives achievement with alumni and senior student surveys for closure and evidence-based revision of Program Educational Objectives and curriculum improvement. The proposed method aggregates the course-level Student Outcome assessment data based on the Student Outcomes - Program Educational Objectives relationship to produce quantitative assessment indicators for the Program Educational Objectives. It addresses the missing connection between before or on graduation Student Outcomes performances and after-graduation Program Educational Objective performance of the groups for better data triangulation. As an innovative approach, the proposed data analyses method tracks the progress/projected achievement of a cohort. The resulting projected Program Educational Objectives achievement can be compared to alumni and employer surveys for the cohort. The findings of these comparisons can be used to review the Program Educational Objectives, Student Outcomes, and Continuous Improvement plan; and make curriculum or course level revisions as well as revisions in the assessment plan.

Haltas, I. (2022, August), Work-in-Progress: Monitoring the Attainment of ABET Student Outcomes and Projected Achievement of Program Educational Objectives by Cohort Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41694

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