program self-study report - Lamar University Electrical Engineering

Faculty Meetings—we assess program objectives and outcomes twice yearly at the start of eachlong semester of the academic year (fall and spring).College and University Planning—we participate in the strategic planning processes of both theuniversity and college where we obtain insight into the directions that these entities are takingtowards fulfillment or change of their mission statements.2.4 (d) System of on-going evaluation2.4.1 Assessment instrumentsAssessment of the program objectives for the electrical engineering undergraduate program is performedby analysis of two main instruments:1) Employer surveys performed once a year designed to see how well we meet our objectives andto find out how our students compare with students from other universities. The survey is doneby phone. A sample of what is asked in our survey is shown in Appendix D. This survey wasimplemented in the Spring of 2006 following the attendance of the chair at an ABET Workshopsponsored by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association(ECEDHA) in New Orleans in March 2005. At that workshop it was determined that alumnisurveys (at the time the primary instrument) alone were insufficient comment on the success orfailure of the program to meet objectives. The consensus at that meeting was that employerEE Program Self-Study Report-2006 13