MEETING OF ABET COORDINATORS
January 16, 2001
11:30 AM, 355 Loew Hall

Attendees:
Frank Ashby (SCORE), Cindy Atman (IndE), Gaetano Borriello (CSE), Rich Christie (EE), Karen Freisem (CIDR), Richard Gustafson (Forestry), Janice Henderson (Dean's Office), Michael Jenkins (ME), Craig Lewis (CELT), Chen-Ching Liu (Assoc. Dean), Greg Miller (C&EE), Carolyn Plumb (TC), Dan Schwartz (ChemE), Cathy Scott (Writing Ctr. & CELT), Uri Shumlak (AA), Francis Spelman (BioE), Tom Stoebe (MS&E).

Discussion:

1. The group was given copies of the April 2000 Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examinations results. Departments may want to use this information as part of their assessment. The results are provided by the Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. Chen-Ching Liu will be attending a forum organized by this board to show more statistics.

2. Ron Miller will do a lunch seminar on Thursday during his visit on February 22 & 23. The seminar will be about an assessment tool he is developing.

3. Rich Christie suggested the group look at the "College/School Academic Profile for 2000" which is on the web under the Office of Instructional Studies.

Action Items:

• The ABET Request for Evaluation (RFE) form is due on January 31, 2001. Coordinators were asked to review and make corrections, if needed, to the information in Part 1. The RFE form needs to have President McCormick's signature.
• One copy of the Self-Study Report for each program to be evaluated must be provided to ABET Headquarters by July 2, 2001. Our time table should be set to correspond with this date.
• Frank Ashby gave an update of assessments and outcomes activities related to Physics and Math courses. The College needs to follow-up on how the information that Physics and Math gathered can help the College and what information we can get from them for the College's assessment to show that engineering students are grasping the information.
• The final Physics report is on the web and includes responses. Frank will get the url. Carolyn Plumb provided copies of the Physics committee report that was done by Alan Borning last year for the Council on Educational Policy.
• Frank Ashby will look into assessment activities that Chemistry may have done, and CoE work with community colleges. Frank asked for input regarding experiences the departments may have had working with community colleges.
• The College's volume of the self-study should contain discussion about the 100-level physics, math, and chemistry courses. Department's self-study volumes should discuss 300-level physics, math, and chemistry courses.
• Carolyn Plumb needs help from 2 or 3 faculty to get through the final part of the writing assessment. It was suggested that Carolyn send the request by email again to the dept. chairs and copy the ABET coordinators.
• Craig Lewis is in the process of doing the list of definitions. It will be in two parts - a list of definitions and a table with terms and two parallel definitions.
• Chen-Ching's office will look for previous Fundamentals of Engineering reports.