Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The University of Tulsa's Chemical Engineering Department's most recent accreditation visit was October 2006.As a result of that visit, the department formalized many of its previous informal assessment processes.The department now has a two-year cycle of review of the Program Objectives, Courses, Curriculum, and Program Outcomes.The Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) is involved in reviewing and approving changes to the goals as well as the measurement of how well we are achieving the Program Outcomes.The IAB is viewed as providing input from both alumni and employer constituencies.IAB surveys for the Program Objectives, Courses, Curriculum, and Program Outcomes will be presented.We have completed only the first year of this two-year cycle, so only the Program Objectives and the Course Objectives will be discussed. Assessment ProcessesThe assessment processes of the department are described in the flowcharts of Figure 1, in the Appendix.The Program Objectives, Course Objectives, Curriculum, and Program Outcomes are reviewed in turn over a two-year period.Each review process includes the measurement of how well the students are meeting each item and the consideration of those results by the faculty and the Industrial Advisory Board (IAB), as highlighted on the flowcharts.The IAB and faculty can both suggest changes, but the faculty has the final approval at a faculty meeting after the IAB meeting.This assessment process is modeled on the assessment process of the Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Tulsa. Industrial Advisory BoardThe IAB for the University of Tulsa's Department of Chemical Engineering consists mainly of alumni who are in upper management, including many who own their own companies.Some of them have hired our more recent graduates.Current board members and their employers or companies are listed in Table 1.
Source: ASEE Midwest Section Conference
Authors: Christi Patton Luks, Laura P. Ford
Institution: University of Tulsa
Language: English
Subfield: Media Technology
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4407677929