As defined by ABET, student outcomes (SOs) describe what students
are expected to know and be able to do by the time of graduation. These relate to
the skills, knowledge, and behaviors that students acquire as they progress
through the program [1]. Student outcomes of the electrical engineering program
at the college of engineering at PSAU are expected to be acquired by the students
through different courses in the curriculum of the program. Those SOs, are
designed to foster the achievement of the Program Educational Objectives
(PEOs) through the professional interaction of its graduates with the industry and
society. The student outcomes assessment process provides a means for
continuously improving the learning experience for students. Such process is
used to assess all the required and elective courses including critical courses such
as Field Training course (EE9990) and Graduation Project course (EE4990). In
this paper, we will show how such assessment and evaluation can be deliberately
and systematically conducted in the context of an electrical engineering program.
It presents a spreadsheet dedicated to graduation project that provides effective
guidance to faculty on the assessment and evaluation of the student outcomes
addressed by the graduation project and shows how the results of this evaluation
lead to the efforts towards continuous improvement through the student
outcomes. |
