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ABET Accreditation Materials

ABET/EAC materials:

• Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs:  these are the criteria that ABET uses to judge engineering programs.  An ABET document.
• Self-Study Questionnaire:  these are the ABET guidelines for preparing a program's report, prior to an ABET visit.  This document elaborates the Criteria.  An ABET document.
• Guidelines for Criterion 3:  this document is addressed to program reviewers (ABET visitors).  It gives insight into the assessment processes that schools are expected to follow.  An ABET document.
  

ASCE materials

U.P. Civil Engineering materials:

• Program Educational Objectives of the C.E. program, as they appear on the University web site .
• School-wide Course Embedded Assessment guidelines (Approved by Faculty, March 31, 2006).  The guidelines give the process that departments use for course embedded assessment.   These guidelines were developed by an ad hoc Committee on Course Embedded Assessment during Fall 2006.  An Engineering School document.
• School-wide mapping of Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) to Program Outcomes (POs).   An Engineering School document, adopted May 11, 2006.
  
• Matrix of the courses that address the CE program outcomes (from June 2003 ABET Self-Study Report).  A departmental document.
• Matrix of the methods that are used to assess the CE program outcomes (Draft, May 4, 2005).  These methods include course embedded assessment, capstone projects, exit surveys, and alumni surveys.  This matrix identifies the "benchmark" courses that the CE department will use in its course embedded assessment, and it gives the "designated outcomes" of these benchmark courses.  A departmental document.
• Rubrics (evaluation criteria) that are applied by the CE department to assess its program outcomes (Draft, May 23, 2005).  A departmental document.
• Examples of course embedded assessment reports prepared by the instructors in 2005-2006:
  
  CE300 - Civil Engineering Seminar, Sp 2006
  CE315 - Transportation Engineering, Sp 2006
  CE321 - Geotechnical Engineering, Fall 2005
  CE367 - Environmental Engineering, Sp 2006
  CE371 - Geotechnical Laboratory, Fall 2005
  CE376 - Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Sp 2006
  CE401 - Computational Methods in Civil Engineering, Fall 2005
• School-wide format for the Annual Documentation of Program Improvements and format for the Annual Assessment Outcomes Matrix.

U.P. Civil Engineering 2006 Annual Report:

• Body of the report.
• Appendix A, New Curricula for the Civil Track and the Environmental Track (effective in 2006-2007).  The new curricula will appear in the 2006-2007 Bulletin.
• Appendix B, Procedures for Course Embedded Assessment.  These procedures are an adaptation of the School of Engineering procedures.
• Appendix C, Assessment of the Capstone Design Courses.  This appendix also includes syllabi and other materials for the courses.
• Appendix D, Procedures for Assessing the FE Exam Results.  A summary of the exam results is given in Section 4.C of the body of the report.
• Appendix E, Tabulated Results of the Graduating Senior Exit Surveys and Graduate School Alumni Surveys.  A summary of these results is given in Sections 4.B of the body of the report.
• Appendix F, Tabulated Results of the Graduate School Alumni Surveys.  A summary of these results is given in Sections 4.B of the body of the report.
• Appendix G, Review of Industrial Advisory Council Feedback.  
• Appendix H, Departmental Meeting Minutes for 2005-2006.
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• Appendix J, Course Embedded Assessment.
• CE300 - Civil Engineering Seminar, Sp 2006
• CE315 - Transportation Engineering, Sp 2006
  
• CE321 - Geotechnical Engineering, Fall 2005
• CE367 - Environmental Engineering, Sp 2006
• CE371 - Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory, Sp 2006
• CE376 - Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Sp 2006
  

U.P. Civil Engineering 2005 Annual Report:

• Body of the report.
• Appendix A, Proposed Curricular Changes.  These proposed changes were later modified.  The final changes will be discussed in the May 2006 report and will appear in the 2006-2007 Bulletin.
• Appendix B, Procedures for Course Embedded Assessment.  These procedures will be superceded by the School of Engineering procedures.
• Appendix C, Assessment of the Capstone Design Courses.  This appendix also includes revised syllabi for the courses and revised grading forms.
• Appendix D, Procedures for Assessing the FE Exam Results.  The appendix also includes a summary of the exam results.
• Appendix E, Tabulated Results of the Graduating Senior Exit Surveys and Graduate School Alumni Surveys.  
• Appendix F, Analysis of Graduating Senior Surveys and Graduate School Alumni Surveys.  
• Appendix G, Review of Industrial Advisory Council Feedback.  
• Appendix H, Departmental Meeting Minutes.
• Appendix I, School of Engineering-wide procedures for Annual Documentation of Program Improvements and format for the Annual Assessment Outcomes Matrix (the "Dr. Who" table).