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ANNUAL ASSESSMENT REPORT 2008-2009

ENGR SYSTEM DESIGN

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

COMMUNICATION

PROBLEM SOLVING

WORK/GRAD SCHOOL

COLOR KEY: Data Not Available Met Marginally Met Not Met

Surveys used for assessing Program Objectives: IAB / Employer Survey Employer Survey Alumni/Alumnae Survey

Color Key:

Met Marginally Met

Not Met

IAB and Employer Survey Support of the Program Objectives

RUBRICS: 3 or higher is benchmark of support

Color Key: Met Marginally Met Not Met

Cooperative Education –Performance Evaluation vs. Program Outcomes

RUBRICS: 75% of responses are either 1 or 2 or S

PRELIMINARY

RESULTS

Reported at

time of the

ABET Visit

Color Key: Met Marginally Met Not Met

Alumni/nae Survey Support of the Program Outcomes - Rating of Extent Enhanced By UB Experience

RUBRICS: 3 or higher is benchmark of success

PRELIMINARY

RESULTS

as reported in

ABET self study

Color Key: Met Marginally Met Not Met

Alumni/nae Survey Support of the Program Outcomes - Rating of Extent Enhanced By UB Experience

RUBRICS: 3 or higher is benchmark of success

FINAL

RESULTS

Program Improvements: New improved website component Online Survey Tool Introduction of Course Feedback Forms

Planned Improvements IAB Reconstitution Strengthen our relations with alumni

UB Undergraduate Alumni group page in Facebook

Newsletter Distribution continues

FUNDAMENTALS

DESIGN

PROBLEM SOLVING

TECHNIQUES/SKILLS

TEAMWORK

DIVERSITY & LLL

COMMUNICATION

ENGR ECON / PLANNING

ETHICS / PROFESSION

EXPERIMENT / RESULTS

KEY: B for Beginners, D for Developing P for Proficient. COLOR KEY: Data Not Available Met Marginally Met Not Met

Each course report Reported on previous course specific recommendations. Included recommendations for future course offerings

Broader impact recommendations: CPE 387 – Embedded Systems

“It was noticed that some students do not register CpE 387 directly after finishing the microprocessors course CpE 286. There might be sometimes a difference of two or three semesters. It is recommended that students take CpE 387 directly after they finish CpE 286.”

CS 102 – Intro to Computing II (2007-2008) In response to the 2007-2008 recommendation, the matter was discussed in

the software thread committee and the following action taken: “Proving algorithmic correctness” was rejected as a topic in CS102 for three

main reasons: It allowed more coverage to sorting and complexity analysis It allowed more focus on the necessary OO and Java-language-specific topics

(this is also the first semester this course is being taught using Java vs. C++ which was the language of instruction earlier.

It was better-suited for the CS follow-on course, CS329, Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms.

Time constraints simply too great to over proving techniques and applications to algorithms.

Surveys used for assessing Program Outcomes: IAB / Employer Survey Coop Performance Evaluations Senior Exit Survey

Color Key:

Met Marginally Met

Not Met

IAB and Employer Survey Support of the Program Outcomes

RUBRICS: 3 or higher is benchmark of support

Color Key: Met Marginally Met Not Met

Cooperative Education –Performance Evaluation vs. Program Outcomes

RUBRICS: 75% of responses are either 1 or 2 or S

Color Key: Met Marginally Met Not Met

Senior Exit Survey Support of the Program Outcomes - Rating of Extent Enhanced By UB Experience

RUBRICS: 3 or higher is benchmark of success

Curricular Changes: Introductory Programming language change. Individual courses followed up on previous

recommendations. Process Improvements

New improved website component. Online survey portal Introduction of course feedback form.

COLOR KEY: Data Not Available Met Marginally Met Not Met