Agenda

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Agenda

• 1200-100 Lunch ABET Overview
• 100-145 Objectives and Survey Data
• 145-215 Break / Tours
• 215-300 Outcome Data - Issues
• 300-345 Undergrad Retention
• 345-400 Break
• 400-500 Open discussion with students leaders

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Number of Students

• Undergrad enrollment slow decline - seems to have
  bottomed

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Status - Last Year Before Cuts

• In 2006-2007 Budget Year
• 6.3M in Faculty salary and fringe (net 2
  faculty since then)
• 1.6M in Staff salary and fringe (-2 staff since
  then)
• 1.3M in student support (Alumnis were 400k)
• 400k in expenses

Not showing 170k in OCO - gone from budget
permanently
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Changes - Already Implemented

• Already done
• Income - Equipment Usage fee 60k
• Undergrad lab charge for depreciation
• MAE has dropped 3303L requirement 50k to 90k
• Loss of two staff without replacement 80k
• Lab Ops in NEB Computing Lab 30k
• Lecturer Leaving 80k
• Thats just almost half-way

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Possible Other Cuts

• GA program - 210k in 06/07
• Require more labs from TAs 100k
• Eliminate graders (buy-out based?) 60k
• Eliminate some labs / courses?
• Increase buy-out from faculty for academic year
  teaching?
• Other Staffing Possibilities
• Centralization
• Shared Support Offices among several departments
• Central Support for Networking
• Decentralization
• May have to pick up services college used to
  provide
• Ask faculty to pay more directly for services

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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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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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ABET Schedule

• NGR in 2006
• Best possible result
• Clean sheet - no issues at all
• Next visit 2012
• Must continue to run processes until then

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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
• Proposal to increase to 131
• 3 for junior design, 2 for lower division course

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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
• 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