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• knowledge of contemporary issues• preparedness for OJT (On the Job Training)• preparedness training courses or in-house training seminars and workshopsThe questionnaires also provide the department with job data as well as graduate schooladmissions. These are key indicators of immediate program outcomes success.Each spring the capstone course of the program, ELEN4207 Senior Design, is evaluatedby the entire faculty using a specially designed rubric. This rubric was developed in orderto quantitatively assess the results of the EE instructional program for the SouthernAssociation of Colleges and Schools (SACS) university level accreditation. The rubricyields quantitative assessment of the capstone effort of each student just prior tograduation. This data is then compiled and reviewed to allow for corrections to be madeif necessary. The rubric was developed by the <strong>LUEE</strong> faculty with the assistance of thedirector of assessment for the university. The rubric used is posted online at:http://ee.lamar.edu/EELABS/SeniorProjects/Project_Rubric.pdfThe results of the rubric assessments (since 2006) are available in the department.C. Continuous ImprovementThe <strong>LUEE</strong> program is robust and stable, however, in the last six years there have been anumber of improvements made predicated on data collected in our assessment processes aswell as direct input from our constituencies.• Independent labs were merged into courses; i.e., courses with associated labs that weretreated as independent courses from the labs were merged with their respective courses toconvert from a three and one credit course set to a single four-credit course.• More options were added to the senior design capstone to allow for greater flexibility instudent project selection.• The Infinity Project curriculum was replaced with the Paradigmatic Labs curriculum inthe Introduction to <strong>Electrical</strong> Engineering course.• Computer programming was dropped from the required curricula and established as aprogram entry pre-requisite.Future program improvement plans based upon recent evaluations call for movingmicrocomputer programming courses earlier in the curriculum. The rationale for this is toprepare students more thoroughly for the senior design capstone and to give microcomputerbackground to rising seniors and thus facilitate their options for summer internships and coopexperiences.24

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