Developing Electrical Engineering Education Program Assessment Process at UAE University

Abstract

SummaryAs the shape of industries within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) changes, it changes the job market and its expectations along the way. Electrical engineering education program assessment developed at the College of Engineering, at UAE University, is approaching its maturity level after a rigorous 10 years of efforts to develop an evolving program assessment process towards ABET accreditation in general, and industrial expectations in particular. This paper describes the program assessment process, along with its various component tools used to generate confidence in its effectiveness for continuous evolution of the program. It is shown how knowledge levels are measured, and skills and competencies of students are determined in order to improve the implementation of the program assessment. Finally, a software program application is developed to automate this cyclic process to reduce tiring paper work per outcome per term, and per program each year for periodic subjective assessment by program constituencies. This development has encouraged the faculty responsible for the program to focus on the program assessment process for its effective use in meeting expectations of UAE industry, in general.