Expanding outcomes assessment using input from students, accreditation commissions, and industry

The electronics engineering technology (EET) program at the Kansas City DeVry University campus has an outcomes assessment process designed to validate whether the students are achieving the program goals and objectives. Additional assessment steps continue to be developed and added to the current EET assessment process. The expanded EET assessment program steps are designed to support three specific outcomes: increasing the enrollment of the EET program; providing additional data that will be used in the re-accreditation process; and strengthening the placement of the EET graduates. This work-in-progress develops procedures to gather the appropriate and valid components of an assessment process that monitor the changing EET students´ program selection criteria, the TAC of ABET and NCA assessment guidelines, and the electronics technology employment requirements.