Agenda

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Agenda

• 1200-130 Lunch / Summary of 2006 Visit
• 130-230 Survey Results and Questions Discussion
• 230-300 Break
• 300-400 Curriculum Initiatives
• 400-500 Open discussion with Student Leaders

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ECE Vital Statistics

• Faculty
• 43 Tenure Track Faculty and 5 Lecturers
• 13 IEEE Fellows
• 4 Major IEEE Field Awards for Outstanding
  Research
• 14 Untenured Faculty (less than five years)
• 580 Undergraduates
• 460 Graduate students

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Metrics
Expenditures (M)

• Doubled research expenditures,
• Flattened out recently

• More than tripled publications over six years

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Degree Programs

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
• Master of Engineering
• Master of Science
• Joint Degree Master of Science in ECE and Juris
  Doctor from College of Law
• Joint Degree Master of Science in ECE and MS in
  Management from the Warrington College of
  Business
• The Engineer Degree
• Ph.D.

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Number of Students

• Undergrad enrollment in decline (more later)

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ABET 2000

• Methodology of Evaluation - rather than credit
  counting
• Outcomes assessment
• Faculty Review of Performance
• Survey Students
• Survey Recruiters / Alums
• Panels for targeted feedback
• Show coupling of assessment to curriculum renewal
  and overhaul
• Verify that students meet nationally recognized
  criteria

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B.S.E.E Program

• General Education and Pre-professional 48
  credits
• College Core and Accreditation 22 credits
• Electrical Engineering Core 27 credits
• EE Specializations 11 or 12 credits
• EE Electives 17 or 18 credits
• Total is 126 credits - fixed by state rule

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General Education and Pre-professional

• Humanities and Social Sciences - 15 credits
• Must include international studies and diversity
• Usually satisfy Gordon Rule (Writing requirement)
• Calculus and Differential Equations - 15 credits
• Science - 15 credits
• Chemistry I and lab
• Physics I and II and labs
• Chemistry or Biology
• General Elective - 3
• Raised Admissions Standards to Upper Division

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College Core and Accreditation

• Technical Writing - 3 credits
• Advanced Math and Statistics - 7 credits
• Ethics - 1 credit
• College Breadth - 9 credits
• Mechanical Engineering - Thermo, Mechanical
  Design
• Engineering Science - Statics, Dynamics,
  Mechanics of Materials
• Engineering Economics
• Advanced Math - Now teaching within ECE
• Computing Elective - 2 credits

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Electrical Engineering Core

• Circuits I and II and lab - 7 credits
• Signals and Systems - 3 credits
• Electronics and lab - 4 credits
• Solid State Devices - 3 credits
• Electromagnetic Fields - 3 credits
• Digital Logic and lab - 4 credits
• Senior Design - 3 credits

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Additional EE

• Specializations - Choose 3 of these 5 Areas
• Power and Energy lab
• Analog or Digital Electronics lab
• Communications lab
• Linear Controls lab
• Microprocessors lab
• Electives 17 - 18 credits
• Represents much of the senior year

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Curriculum Goals

• Broad Education
• General Ed, College Breadth
• Gordon Rule
• Knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering
• General Ed, Math, Science, College Core
• Engineering Problem Solving
• College Core
• EE Core, EE Electives
• Senior Design / IPPD
• Design and Conduct Experiments
• Physics, Chemistry, ECE - minimum 9 credits of
  labs
• Statistics
• Senior Design / IPPD

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B.S./M.S. Program

• Increasingly Popular
• Graduate Electives can be doubled counted
• 6 or 12 credits (depending on GPA)
• Streamlined
• 30 credit hour, non-thesis option
• Course work only option - no final exit exam
  required
• Completion possible in 1 additional calendar year
  (9, 9, 6)
• Encouraging all qualified students to pursue

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ABET Processes - Objectives

• External Board has a lot of input - well do more
  in a minute
• External Board is to review surveys - more later

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ABET Processes - Objectives

• Course Committees are key
• Faculty Review Data, Set Standards, Control
  Content

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Fall 2006 Visit

• Clean bill of health - full six year
  accreditation with no issues
• Items that came up in review - considered minor
• Faculty / Staff / Students / Board Members did
  great
• Worked long hours during the review to respond

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Issues

• Objectives
• Outcomes
• Design and Conduct Experiments
• Professional
• Statistics
• Standards

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ABET Definitions

• Objectives
• Broad Statements
• Goals for students 5 years after graduation
• Measured by surveys / focus groups
• Outcomes
• Specific skills
• Measured at graduation time
• Direct measurement (not grades or surveys)

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BSEE Objectives

• The objectives of the EE program at UF are to
  prepare students for
• Successful careers in a dynamic industry that is
  global, multi-disciplinary, and evolving
• Admission to, and excelling in, the best graduate
  programs in the world
• Good citizenship by engaging in ethical
  engineering for the betterment of society and the
  world.
• Cant do 2 for all students - not clear that it
  isnt a goal for all students

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BSEE Objectives - Change

• The objectives of the EE program at UF are to
  prepare students for
• 1. Successful careers in a dynamic industry that
  is global, multi-disciplinary, and evolving
  and/or
• admission to, and excelling in, the best
  graduate programs in the world
• 2. Good citizenship by engaging in ethical
  engineering for the betterment of society and the
  world.
• Evaluator seemed happy with this change

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Action Items

• Is this wording ok?
• Should we come up with an alternate?

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BSEE Outcomes

• Design and Conduct Experiments
• Fortunate
• 3304 - Design a testing plan for a circuit
• 3304 - Design a procedure for parameter
  extraction
• 3701 - Design a circuit and test vectors to
  verify operation
• 4744 - Design controllers and testing protocols
• 4914 - Design in test plan with design

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Professional - Statistics and Probability

• Appropriate to discipline
• Not enough to require a course
• Included
• 3304 Device parameter extraction and variations
• 3396 Boltzmann Statistics, Linear reduction
• 4331 Probability functions in describing doping
• 4514 Noise in communications systems and impact
  on signals
• 4914 Least Squares, Data Reduction

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Professional - Standards

• Appropriate use of standards in design
• Throughout curriculum
• CprE classes - 5V design of logic, bus standards
• Power - power standards
• Communications - many standards
• Microprocessor families and designs
• Examples in Senior Design
• USB / Ethernet Communication
• GPS
• Power Control

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Lessons Learned

• Very detailed about data and history
• ChemE was asked to provide all faculty minutes.
• Post relevant data on the web site to maintain
  records
• Outcomes and Links to classes
• Lucky - some classes changed labs and dropped
  ABET items
• Explicit list what the outcome is in a course
• Include this in the standard syllabus approved by
  course committee
• Survey refinement (More Later)
• Work on opportunities for multi / inter
  disciplinary
• Clarify definitions
• Extend Senior Design (More Later)