LUEE 2012 Self-Study Report (PDF) - Lamar University Electrical ...

prepared for real-world challenges. Assistance is offered through the following facultydevelopment programming: workshops and seminars, faculty learning communities,evaluation and assessment, ACES Fellows program, and podcasts.E. Authority and Responsibility of FacultyThe role played by the LUEE faculty with respect to program guidance is that they constitutethe main interactive element of the program in terms of academics since they are responsiblefor the instruction as it relates to our discipline. We rely heavily on the fact that the facultyare well-qualified in their respective EE subdisciplines and have extensive experience, bothacademic and industrial, to be able to deliver course materials in an acceptable and efficientmanner.The faculty are essential to the development and implementation of the processes for theevaluation, assessment, and continuing improvement of the program since any perturbationsthat occur in the instructional process will reverberate through the program and will have animmediate effect on outcomes that will ultimately affect objectives. For this reason, thefaculty are tasked individually with the evaluation, assessment and continuing improvementof the program outcomes. They do this via a continual activity of monitoring the outcomes asthey apply to their course offerings, adjusting as necessary to insure coverage, and thenperforming layered assessment of those outcomes through coursework.The program objectives, which one can reasonably argue are associated with student activityafter they are no longer students (in the program), are evaluated and assessed directly by thefaculty through our graduate surveys. Prior to the graduate survey, the employer surveyswere conducted by the faculty. These activities give immediate, collegial feedback that canthen be applied to continuous improvement. The faculty work closely with the departmentadvisory board, which performs a validation and grounding function.External roles, such as those of the dean and provost, are predicated on academic leadership.It is important that the dean be cognizant of university funding and administrationmechanisms as they relate to the mission of the program. The dean then must interacteffectively with the provost to insure that adequate resources are available for programfunctions to be maintained, which include robust continuous improvement. The LUEEprogram has confidence in the administration at Lamar University.36