COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

PROFESSOR MAYEZ AL-MOUHAMED

To promote Outcome-Based Education at the Computer Engineering Department

A - MAJOR REFERENCES

WPI CS ABET Accreditation Coordination Committee

ABET 2008-2009

• ABET Team Questionnaire for a computing program
• Self-Study Report  SSR-1   and SSR-2
• U. of Washington Computer Science and Engineering

ABET EC 2000 Criteria

KFUPM Guidelines for the preparation of self-study report and its Appendix (Tables, CVs, and courses)

COE Student Guide

COE Self-Study Report (April 2008)

B - GUIDELINES

• Guidelines for "ABET A-K OUTCOMES: DESCRIPTION, INSTRUCTION, AND ASSESSMENT"
• Guidelines for COE lab organization

          The COE department requested (December 20, 2006) all COE lab supervisors to apply these guidelines

• Guidelines for setting up course objectives

C - REFERENCE SELF-STUDY REPORTS

1. Drexel University (Fairfied) 2006
2. University-Pittesburg-COE-2005
3. Worcister-Poly-Institute-ECE-2002
4. Perdue-Calumet-EE-2005
5. KFUPM COE Self-Assessment Report 2003
6. Lamar-Univ-EE-2006
7. Washington-University-COE-2001
8. Univ-Illinois-UC-COE-2000
9. Saint-Louis-University ECE 2006
10. Oregon-State-Univ-COE-2002
11. Istambul-Tech-Univ-COE-2003
12. Istambul-Tech-Univ-ECE-2004
13. Georges-Mason-Uni-COE-2000
14. COE Self-Study Report (April 2007)

D - ABET COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS AND REPORTS

• The COE ABET committee was appointed on September 20, 2006
• Request for evaluation of the COE department
• Recommendation 1 of October 9, 2006

Setting up departmental groups tasked to the preparation of the self-study report

• Recommendation 2 of October 11, 2006
• Recommendation 3 of November 6, 2006

        Setting up the Assessment Committee (AC) and Undergraduate Committee (UC)

• Recommendation 4 of February 19, 2007

        A proposal for preliminary implementation of outcome-based education

• Progress report 1 of October 11, 2006
• Uncompleted task (Developing guidelines to improve the assessability of the COE Courses and Labs)
• Appendix II Institution (The COE department) and its reference parameters.

E - COURSE EVALUATION FORMS, SURVEYS, AND GUIDELINES

• COURSE EVALUATION
  • Faculty course evaluation
  • Course project
  • Oral presentation
  • Senior Design project guidelines
• LAB EVALUATION

• Notebook guidelines
• Sample Notebook
• Notebook sample experiment
• Lab report evaluation
• Capstone report evaluation
• Oral presentation
• Team evaluation

• SURVEYS

   

  • Exit survey

F -  FACULTY - STUDENT EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE

• Overview of Self-Study Report preparation
• ABET EC 2000 education
• Advisory board, Employer, and Alumni Analysis
• Capstone Course
• Communication Skills
• Contemporary Issues
• Engineering Ethics
• Engineering Education
• Engineering Mathematics
• Impact of Engineering Solutions
• Life-Long Learning
• Outcome-based instruction
• Professional Engineering Practices
• Seminar Course
• Senior Design Project
• Student Portfolio
• Team working
• A student guide to accreditation

G -  WORKSHOP AND PRESENTATION

WORKSHOP ON OUTCOME-BASED INSTRUCTION (January 23, 2007)

• Outcome-based instruction (Dr. Mayez Al-Mouhamed)
• Outcome-Based Teaching in the Classroom (Dr. Mohammad Elrabaa)
• Steering to ABET EC 2K: Lab Organization and Instruction (Dr. Abdelhafid Bouhraoua)

Presentations on Assessment Rubrics (April 16, 2007)

• Using Rubrics to Assess Program Outcomes (Dr. Al-Jabri)
• Update on ABET Assessment Work (Dr. Al-Khatib)