Program Education Objective Actions for 2009

 

Evaluation Process

 The evaluation process is working well and requires no modification except for some question about the consistency in alumni survey responses on profession service.  Only 5/51 report serving a professional society, while 15/51 report belonging to a professional society.  This and other similar analysis indicate that some additional work might be warranted to assure the meaningfulness of the survey questions in these areas.

 

Objective Improvement

Program graduates appear to meeting all program objectives according to their self-assessment reporting largely either a satisfied or very satisfied on all items except those involving design and computational.  Of additional concern was that 8/51 respondents reported no significant professional or community service.  The low self appraisal for design ability is needs to be tracked to determine if the new design experience being offered since 2008 will, as expected, result in improvement.  It is decided that the following actions items be set:

·          A determination of the effectiveness of the Samurai Sword Design Project and current other design projects  is leading to improved design skills for the graduates.

·          Consideration should be given to specifically addressing computational skills in the curriculum.

·          The program should include additional discussion in the classroom on the importance of and means of identifying areas of meaningful professional and community service.