Investigating Engineering Retention

Assessment of Engineering programs has become increasingly important as public funding and accreditation both depend upon some form of it. One part of assessment is looking at the retention of one's students. Retention studies provide important information for the evaluation of academic programs. By looking at the success and failure rates of students in our program, we hope to find indicators that will be a good predictor of success in the Electrical Engineering program. Currently, the SAT math score of incoming freshman is used as one such indicator. It is the hope that this study will validate its continued use and suggest other possibly more reliable indicators of success.