Manufacturing/Mechanical Engineering Technology
Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET)
Results of Assessment
2003-2004 (submitted 01/21/05)
Outcomes Assessed
• All ABET outcomes (a. through k.) are addressed on
an on-going basis via program level and course level loop actions. All MET
courses have experienced at least a two-year loop action cycle, which means
that course-level improvements have been implemented in all MET courses. The
loop action instruments are maintained by the program coordinator.
• In the spring of 2004, all ABET outcomes were assessed via the graduate
survey.
• Outcome f. was again assessed via the MET assessment examination at the
end of the spring semester but only for one student. The rest of the
graduating seniors took the FE examination.
• The first Mini Baja senior project since about 1990 was completed spring
2004. The written reports and oral presentations were evaluated by the MET
faculty at the end of the school year. Senior projects embrace all eleven
ABET outcomes to some extent.
• Outcome c. was primarily assessed by evaluating written laboratory reports
and other class reports required by the faculty.
• In-class examinations are used to generally assess outcome a. on an
ongoing basis.
Data Gathered
• Of ten students who took the FE exam, only three
reported passing the exam.
• Rather than gathering data from the usual instruments, we focused on
re-designing the MET program to build enrollments. Input to the process was
provided by the industrial advisory committee during the 2003-2004 school
year.
Changes Implemented/To Be Implemented
• During spring semester of 2004, the MET program was
significantly revised. The revisions have passed faculty senate, and will be
included in the 2005-2006 printed catalog. It is hoped that the program
revision, coupled with renewed recruiting efforts, will result in higher
enrollments.
• Funding for the materials development laboratory grant (about $1 M) is
still pending.
Outcomes To Be Assessed During 2004 - 2005
• Rather than assessing the usual outcomes, we will
begin assessing the effectiveness of the MET program revisions for building
enrollments. The faculty will devote the time they normally use to assess
the program for advertising the new program, informing students of the
changes, advising current MET majors through the transition, and designing
the new courses and modifying the old courses to meet program objectives. At
least two full academic years of enrollment data (beginning fall 2005) will
be required to make an adequate assessment of curriculum changes on program
health.
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