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Manufacturing/Mechanical Engineering Technology

Design Graphics Engineering Technology

Assessment Plan

submitted 05/28/02

Student Learning Outcomes:

Design Graphics Engineering Technology (DGET) students will demonstrate:

1.  effective technical communication skills, including written, oral and graphical

2.  have obtained the requisite knowledge and have acquired the technical skills to be successful in the discipline.

3.  the ability to function as a member of a project team.

4.  problem solving skills related to the discipline.

5.  knowledge of the national standards used in the discipline and the ability to apply national standards in the development of design documentation and graphics presentations.

Additional Program Outcomes:

6.  Employers will be satisfied with the performance of DGET Program graduates.

7.  Graduates of the DGET program will be satisfied with their education and be successfully employed in a related field or enrolled in a graduate program.

OUTCOME

ASSESSMENT MEASURE

TIME FRAME

RESPONSIBILITY

1

Course term papers and presentations rubric

Senior project presentation rubric

Periodically through major

Senior year

Course instructors

 

Faculty panel

2

Preparation of technical design documents

Embedded questions on exams in each course

Periodically through major and Senior year

Periodically through major

Course instructor and faculty panel

Course instructor

3

Peer and faculty evaluation rubric for all projects requiring team effort

Periodically through major

Course instructors and Faculty panel

4

Course project rubric

Periodically through major

Course instructors

5

Course project rubric

Senior Project presentation

Periodically through major

Senior year

Course instructors

Faculty panel

6

Employer survey

Six months to one year after graduation

Department Head

7

Course evaluations

Exit surveys

Alumni survey

Periodically through major

Graduation

Two years after graduation

Course instructors

Department Head

Department Head

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