PIs: Pamela Kurstedt, Assistant Dean - Enrichment, Bev Watford, Associate Dean - Academic Affairs

Project Goals or Needs Addressed: "The stated goal was to identify and refine instruments …to collect data on where we were in the curriculum planning process in terms of identifying and measuring outcomes [required by the ABET accreditation standards]."

Project Grants and Expenditures: $5000 (year 7), faculty travel to workshops, cost-shared graduate assistants



 


As a result of this project, the College of Engineering established a "series of matrices" that matched program objectives with the "A-K outcomes" required by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). This task ensured the College had covered each required outcome and illustrated which courses provided this coverage.

"And in most departments every faculty member going through this process has had to take their courses, say my course meets these A-K criteria from ABET, and they have to put that down in writing and then the curriculum committee reviews it… every faculty member has to look at their course in light of the A-K criteria."