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Assessment of Student Outcome A.2 Civil Engineering: Students will develop the ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems. (Corresponds to EC2000 Crit.3)


Implementation Strategies

Performance Criteria

Assessment Methods

Feedback Mechanisms

Engineering problems are assigned in several lower and many upper division classes (e.g. ENGR 102, 303, 304, 309, 323, 429, 430, 434).

Open-ended projects are assigned in several upper division engineering laboratories (e.g. 300,302).

All students are required to complete a capstone design project (ENGR 696, 697) which is a real world engineering problem.

1. Students pass all required engineering courses.

1. Graduation audit.

  • Course loop
  • Curriculum loop

2. Students agree (with an average score of 2.0 or less) that they have attained this outcome in their courses (e.g. 102, 302, 303,304,309, 323, 429, 430, 434).

2. Student course surveys

3. At least 70% of the faculty agree that our graduates have achieved Outcome A.2.

3. Faculty outcome survey.

4. At least 70% of the alumni agree that they achieved Outcome A.2.

4. Alumni survey. 

5. All students successfully complete senior design project courses.

5. Graduation Audit