Using Student Learning Outcomes Assessment to Assure EC2000 Program Effectiveness

The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department of Gannon University has devised a process in which faculty define specific graded (key) assignments that are linked to the (course-level) student learning objectives. A student is only permitted to pass a course if they have also met or exceeded the minimum passing criteria defined in these key assignments. In this way, each student passing a course is measurably justified in having met the course objectives. By the virtue of the process, all students who graduate from the program must have also met or exceeded the minimum standard on every course objective, and consequently ensures that these graduates have all (individually) met or exceeded the overall program goals.