UCSC CE and EE Departments' fulfillment of ABET Outcome A

Engineering programs must demonstrate that their graduates have an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering

These courses help fulfill this ABET outcome:

1. CE12 via Core Topic 5
2. CE16 via all skills and core Topics
3. CE16H via all skills and core Topics
4. CE100 via Skills 1 through 10 and all core topics and Core Labs 1 through 4
5. CE107 via all skills and core topics
6. CE110 via all skills and core topics
7. CE113 via Core Topics 1-5
8. CE117 via Skills 1 through 5 and Core topics 1 through 15
9. CE118L via Core topics 1,2,3,4,7, and 10, as well as all Core Labs
10. CE121 via Skills 1 through 4, Core Topics 1 through 5, and Lab Exercises 1 through 4
11. CE123 via Skills 1 through 3
12. CE125 via Skill 1, 2, Core Topics 1 through 9, and Core Lab Exercises 1 thorugh 3
13. CS150 via Skill 4 and Core Topics 2, 3, and 6
14. CE151 via Core Topics 1 through 7
15. CE152 via Core Topics 1, 2, 3, and 5
16. CE154 via all skills and core topics
17. CE155 via Skills 1 and 2
18. CE173 via Skills 1 through 4
19. CE177 via all skills and the core lab project
20. CS12a via all skills and all Core Topics
21. CS12b via Skills 1 through 9 Core Topics 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8
22. CS13 via Skills 1,2,3,4,5, 9 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and all Language-Independent Core Topics
23. CS101 via Skills 3 and 4, Core Topics 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6
24. CS104a via all skills, topics, and labs
25. CS104b via all skills, core topics, and labs
26. CS111 via Skills 1 though 6 and Core Topics 1 through 14
27. CS115 via Skills 1 through 5
28. ENG27 via Skills 2, 3, and 6 and Core Topics 1 through 7 with emphasis on 4 through 7
29. ENG147 via Skills 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and Core Topics 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10
30. EE70 via Skills 1 through 17, all core topics, all core lab exercises
31. EE80t via Skills 1 through 6 and Core Topics 1 through 8
32. EE103 via all skills and core topics
33. EE125 via Skills 1,3,4, and Core Topic 1
34. EE126 via Skills 1 and 4, and Core Topic 1
35. EE128 via Skills 2 and 5 and Core Topic 2.
36. EE129 (at SJSU) via Skills 2 thorugh 10, Core Topics 3 through 13, and Core Labs 2 through 9
37. EE130 via all skills and core topics
38. EE135 via Skills 1 through 3, 8 through 9, 15 through 17
39. EE136 via all skills and core topics
40. EE145 via all skills and core topics
41. EE151 via all skills and core topics
42. EE153 via all skills and core topics
43. EE154 via all skills and core topics
44. EE171 via all skills and core topics
45. EE178 via all skills and core topics
46. Math 19ab via all skills and core topics
47. Math 23ab via all skills and core topics

In the following section, representatives from each department talk about how their students fulfill this component, how it is monitored, and what the feedback loops are.

1. The CE department on monitoring and feedback
   1. The initial take (as written by Martine Schlag)
      Outcome A is assessed in terms of the ability to apply engineering by completing a functional project in a capstone course (CE123b), in terms of the ability to apply mathematics by the CE107 part of the CE core exam and in terms of the ability to apply science by feedback from the EE department's intake quiz for their Electronics class (EE70).

      Other short-term checks of this outcome occur through classes that require knowledge of probability and statistics (i.e., that have CE 107 as a pre-requisite) to solve computer engineering problems. Examples include CE 150, CE152, and CE 154.

      Core exam offerings during 2001-3 showed the program faculty a weakness in student understanding and retention of mathematics, including calculus and probability. Our resulting investigation resulted in the decision that this material was too central to Computer Engineering (and Electrical Engineering) to let the course move outside of CE, and that some of the problems were due to this and the teaching of the course by temporary academic staff.

      Beginning Winter 2003, CE has made a commitment to staff the course with CE and EE permanent faculty who use the course material in their own work. These faculty are able to bring practical examples of the use of the probability and statistics in engineering to the forefront. We will have further discussions about reinforcing this material throughout the curriculum, and also watch core examination results to see the effect of this change.

      Our long-term feedback on this outcome includes the generic questions in the exit and alumni surveys.

   2. Final metric and feedback as determined by the Oversight committee

      Our three metrics are:

      1. Quantitative: 90% of the CE121 students will have previously passed Physics 5C/N and EE70.
      2. Quantitative: 90% of CE students will complete CE123b on first taking it.
      3. Quantitative: 80% of CE students will complete CE121 on first taking it.
      4. Subjective:The exit survey results on Question 1: An average of 4 out of 5 must be maintained.
      If any of the three of these is not met, the oversight committee must propose changes to the faculty and the advisory counsil.
2. The EE department's monitoring and feedback (as written by Hamid Sadjadpour)
   The EE department tests this outcome by a quiz in the first week of each EE class (short-term) and an exit survey upon graduation of our students (mid-term) and keeping track of our graduates in an SOE alumni web site and later on the alumni survey (long-term) to track student ability in this area.