Assessment Processes in ET at SUNYIT

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Assessment Processes in ET at SUNYIT

• Daniel K. Jones, Ph.D., P.E.
• Associate Professor, MET
• Chair, MIET

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Overall Flowchart

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Constituents

• Program Educational Objectives
• advisory board
• alumni, employers
• Program Outcomes
• students
• Everything
• Faculty, TAC/ABET

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Direct Measures

• Faculty course evaluations
• Imbedded measures
• tests, quizzes, assignments, reports
• Employer surveys
• Capstone rubric
• Rubric for oral presentations

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Indirect Measures

• On-line student surveys
• First Destination Survey
• Alumni survey on outcomes
• Graduating student survey
• Teamwork survey
• Survey of students regarding summer employment

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Closing the Loop Improvements

• Program Changes
• Clearly list requirements aligned with ABET
• Add requirements
• Capstone Experience
• Material Science
• New Courses
• Assistive Technology
• Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning
• Combine Heat Transfer I and II

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Closing the Loop Improvements

• New equipment purchases
• Rapid Prototyping
• Lathe and mill tooling for machine shop
• Upgrade tensile testing machine
• Course improvements
• Add prerequisites to Finite Element Analysis and
  Vibrations
• Statics, Strength of Materials, Calculus

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Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)

• ABET requires input from advisory board
• SUNYIT is attempting to have common PEOs among
  all ET programs

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Draft of New PEOs

• The PEOs of the (MET) program are to collaborate
  with industry, business, government, and other
  academic institutions to ensure that graduates

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Draft of New PEOs

• 1. Have applied engineering skills necessary to
  obtain gainful employment in their chosen
  professional field and the ability to progress to
  higher levels of responsibility.

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Draft of New PEOs

• 2. Are equipped with practical problem-solving
  and hands-on skills rooted in the fundamental
  areas of (MET).

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Draft of New PEOs

• 3. Become life-long learners through professional
  development such as continuing education,
  professional societies, and/or professional
  registration.

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Pending changes - TAC/ABET

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TAC/ABET

• Proposed changes
• TAC harmonized general criteria
• Attempt to make EAC, CAC, and TAC criteria similar

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TAC/ABET

• TAC/ABET is undergoing CI
• We have a moving target,
  but motion is slowing
• Future evaluators will be trained by ABET, not
  sponsoring organization

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New Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)

• Broad statements that describe what graduates are
  expected to attain within a few years after
  graduation
• Based on the needs of the programs
  constituencies

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New Student Outcomes

• Describe what students are expected to know and
  be able to do by the time of graduation
• Relate to skills, knowledge, and behaviors that
  students attain as they progress through the
  program

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New Student Outcomes

• Broadly defined activities (for B.S.)
• - involve a variety of resources
• - involve the use of new processes, materials,
  or techniques in new ways
• - require knowledge of standard operating
  procedures

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New Student Outcomes

• Narrowly defined activities (for A.S.)
• - involve limited resources
• - involve the use of conventional processes and
  materials in new ways
• - require knowledge of basic operating processes

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New Student Outcomes

• B.S. Programs
• Criteria 3 a-j have all been expanded
• A.S. Programs
• now have a separate Criteria 3 a-i

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Questions?