ABET Preparation Plan

Date Prepared: April 1999

Last Updated: July 1, 1999

This document specifies the timeline for ABET preparation and the responsibilities for various tasks to be performed by departments, CELT, and the College. The document will be updated in a timely manner as the process evolves.

1. Timeline

The ABET accreditation review will take place during Autumn quarter 2001. The timeline in Table 1 below has been discussed with all departmental ABET coordinators and approved at the meeting on December 17, 1998. As time and work progress, the schedule will be decomposed to lower-level action items as appropriate.

Item	Deadline / Period	Action item	Responsibility	Status
1	November 9-13, 1998	Workshop with outside expert: Barbara Olds, Professor, Colorado School of Mines	COE + CELT	Completed
2	December 18, 1998	ABET Coordinator Meeting Time and Location: 1:00-2:00pm (EE/CSE 303)	COE, Departments	Completed
3	mid February 1999	Define Mission statements	UW, COE, departments	UW completed COE draft completed 12/98
4	mid February 1999	Define Program objectives and Map to Desired Learning Outcomes	Departments	Partially Completed
5	March 25, 1999	ABET Coordinator Meeting Time and Location: 9:00-10:00am (Loew Hall 355 Conference Room)	COE, Departments	Completed - Minutes on the Web
6	April 9, 1999	ABET Coordinator Meeting Time and Location: 4:00-5:00pm (Loew Hall 355 Conference Room)	COE, Departments	Completed - Minutes on the Web
7	April 15, 1999	Speaker: Dr. Gloria M. Rogers, Vice President for Institutional Resources and Assessment at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Title: Course and Program Assessment in Engr.: Similarities and Differences Date and Time: Thursday, April 15 -- 3:00 pm Location: Faculty Club Conference Room	CELT	Completed
8	May 6, 1999	Speaker: Dr. Karan Watson, President of the IEEE Education Society and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University Title: Changing the Academic Environment to Improve the Retention and Performance of Engineering Students Date and Time: Thursday, May 6 -- 3:00 pm Location: Faculty Club Conference Room	CELT	Completed
9	May 10, 1999	ABET Coordinator Meeting Time and Location: 1:00-2:00pm (Loew Hall 355 Conference Room)	COE, Departments	Completed - Minutes on the Web
10	May 11, 1999	Speakers: Dr. Larry Leifer, Prof, Mechanical Engr., Design Division at Stanford University & Director of the Stanford Center for Design Research, the Stanford Design Affiliates Program and the Stanford Learning Lab Dr. Sheri D. Sheppard, Associate Prof, Mechanical Engr, Design Division at Stanford University and Co-Director of the Stanford Learning Lab. Lecture: Mission Impossible: the Stanford University Learning Laboratory and the Wallenberg Global Learning Center Date and Time: Tuesday, May 11, 1:30 pm Location: Student Union Bldg, Lecture in HUB 209A	CELT and COE Visiting Scholars Program.	Completed
11	May 1999	Map learning outcomes to courses: strategies and actions	Departments	Mostly Completed
12	May 1999	Define assessment methods	Departments with COE / CELT assistance	In Process
13	Late May 1999	Interdepartmental presentations of ABET work to date	Departments	Completed
14	June 3-4, 1999	Workshop with outside expert  Who: Ron Miller, Professor, Colorado School of Mines	COE + CELT + ECSEL	Completed
15	June 7, 1999	ABET Coordinator Meeting Time and Location: 11:00-12:00pm (Loew Hall 355 Conference Room)	COE, Departments	Completed - Minutes on the web
16	Summer 1999	Mike Jenkins to work on ABET EC2000 Summer 1999	Mike Jenkins, ME
17	September 1999	Interdepartmental presentations of ABET work to date	Departments
18	September 1999	Begin ABET "mock" preperations	Departments + COE
19	October 14, 1999	ABET Coordinator Meeting Time and Location: 10:00-11:00am - Loew 355 Conference Room Bryan Rawson and David Fray to discuss "Data Collection"	COE, Departments
20	November 18, 1999	ABET Coordinator Meeting Time and Location: 10:00-11:00am - Loew 355 Conference Room	COE, Departments
21	November 19, 1999	Dr. Susan Millar, Director of LEAD (Learning through Evaluation,  Adaptation and Dissemination) at UW-Madison. Talk: "Opening Doors to New Spaces: The  Processes of Implementing Education Reform" Time and Location: 2:30pm - Loew  Hall 355 Conference Room	COE
22	December 2-3, 1999	Dr. Barbara Olds, Professor, Colorado School of Mines Talk: "Closing the ABET Feedback Loop" Time and Location: 10:30-11:30am - HUB 200AB Workshop: ABET Coordinator Workshop - Assessment Methods: Finding the Right Tool for the Job Time and Location: 2:30-4:30pm - HUB 200AB Note: Individual department meetings to take place on Friday, December 3.	COE + CELT
23	December 16, 1999	ABET Coordinator Meeting Time and Location: 10:00-11:00am - Loew 355 Conference Room	COE, Departments
24	January 5, 2000	ABET Coordinator Meeting Time and Location: 10:30-11:30am - Loew 355 Conference Room	COE, Departments
25	February 2, 2000	ABET Coordinator Meeting Time and Location: 10:30-11:30am - Loew 355 Conference Room	COE, Departments
26	March 1, 2000	ABET Coordinator Meeting Time and Location: 10:30-11:30am - Loew 355 Conference Room	COE, Departments
27	Winter-Spring 2000	Implement assessment strategies  Document results  Document improvements	Departments + COE
28	April 5, 2000	ABET Coordinator Meeting Time and Location: 10:00-11:00am - Loew 355 Conference Room	COE, Departments
29	May 10, 2000	ABET Coordinator Meeting Time and Location: 10:30-11:30am - Loew 355 Conference Room	COE, Departments
30	Week of June 5, 2000	ABET "mock" visit by Pat Daniels, Seattle University and Edwin C. Jones, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Iowa State University.	COE, Departments
31	2000 - 2001	Revise strategies as appropriate from 1999-2000 results  Implement revised strategies  Document results  Document improvements	Departments + COE
32	Spring 2001	Send CD-ROM of all documents to ABET	Departments + COE
33	Autumn 2001	ABET visit

2. Responsibilities

In general, departments manage their own programmatic designs such as educational objectives, curriculum plans, mapping objectives to ABET criteria, etc. When curriculum areas are interdisciplinary, the departments involved work together to prepare for ABET. Departments can also design their own assessment methods and are welcome to seek assistance from CELT if necessary.

The College central administration and CELT can provide assistance in areas common to all departmental needs such as:

1. collecting pertinent assessment data,
2. consolidating existing data from UW (e.g. OIS database) and its various internal units (e.g. the Graduate School, Office of Educational Assessment, Admission, etc.),
3. collecting data from national reports for benchmarking,
4. providing queries and reports to a central database so departments can produce their own reports,
5. conducting assessment (when appropriate),
6. analyzing assessment results and providing feedback (when appropriate),
7. preparing the final ABET documents on CD-ROM to send to ABET.

The College and CELT will also bring external experts to campus for discussions with departments. In addition to the general workshops, these experts are also available for one-on-one meetings with departmental representatives to that department to discuss specific questions.

If a department has some particular assessment goals and procedures (not necessarily in common with other departments' procedures), the College and CELT are willing to help in discussing these procedures or their implementations.

We expect to keep revising this list of responsibilities and procedures as the process evolves.