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From Sunday, Oct. 10 through Tuesday, Oct. 12, we will be having our ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) review for the period 2000-2006. Every six years, all undergraduate engineering programs across the country get accredited to show that we are teaching the correct concepts and materials to our students. During the 1998-99 year, we prepared two ABET self-study reports, one for electrical engineering and one for computer engineering. We also collected a lot of course materials to show that we are indeed accomplishing all the educational objectives that we had set out to satisfy.
This year's ABET accreditation is really different from all previous years in that we are supposed to have clear missions and objectives about what we want to accomplish for our students in the undergraduate programs and have clear assessment methods put in place to measure these outcomes. You will all have noted that for the past two years, our undergraduate study manual has clearly listed details of course objectives for all our courses and labs.
It is appropriate at this time for all of us to remember what our missions are in both the curricula. These mission statements appear on our departmental web page as well as on our departmental notice boards. I would like to remind everyone of our mission. For details of the mission, please go to our web page.
Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering Undergraduate Mission Statement:
"To educate undergraduates in the basic principles and modern practices of the field of electrical engineering (computer engineering) and train our students to think independently, to master the systematic approach to problem solving, and to have a keen awareness of the role of engineering in a modern technological society."
Our electrical engineering program will be evaluated by Professor Sherra Kerns, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University.
Our computer engineering program will be evaluated by Dr. David Cochran, Engineering Manager, Quantum Computing Corporation.
Sunday through Tuesday the ABET visitors will be going through all the course materials that have been collected, visiting our labs and computing facilities, and interviewing various faculty and students to judge if our undergraduate programs have passed the "ABET2000 criteria." In a way, this is like Final Exam week for the ECE department! I wish to thank all the people who are taking time off their busy schedules to help us in this review process.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
*** Optimization Seminar ***
DATE: Tuesday, October 12
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
LOCATION: M228 (IEMS conference room)
SPEAKER: Michael Ferris, University of Madison Wisconsin
TITLE: Complementarity Problems and Equilibrium Programming
There are no examinations scheduled this week.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .