Goals
- Attract and retain high quality and diverse undergraduate student population
- Work to promote students’ critical thinking, while developing their quantitative and symbolic reasoning skills
- Improve students’ information literacy, by providing Modern Laboratories and facilities
- Provide opportunities for students to improve specialty interests in mechanical engineering and material science, through club activities, research activities with faculty, and interaction with regional industry.
Benchmark 1: Enrollment
Metric: Controlled growth: Total number of students in MME programs
Target: Peer average / 20 students per FTE.
Metric: Number of Certified Students:
Target: Peer average / 10 per FTE
Impact: This will ensure that this school will provide
first class education and improved contacts between faculty and
students, as well as seniors/juniors with sophomores/freshman, leading
to greater student learning and retention.
Benchmark 2: Student quality
Metric: Average GPA of students at time of certification
Target: 2.5 minimum
Impact: The goal is accept students who are ready for
the rigorous and competitive curricula in this school, and expose them
to an enriching lower division experience that truly encourages them
towards the professional upper division experience.
Benchmark 3: Learning Outcomes
Metric: ABET Outcomes
Target: Annual program and course assessments
Metric: Percentage of students passing FE
Target: National Average
Impact: Maintain continuous quality improvement through annual assessment.
Benchmark 4: Developing Specialty Interests
Metric: Undergraduate research/ Internships experience
Target: Increase the number of undergraduate students
participating in formal internships or research experiences during
their program to 25% of the total number of certified undergraduates in
the school.
Impact: Provide students greater opportunity to focus on additional educational development.
Metric: Number of students participating in club activities.
Target: 80% of all certified majors will be an active member of a given student club.
Metric: Ranking of specialty clubs in national competitions
Target: Two of the actively supported clubs in the School of MME will place in the top 33% of competitors in national competitions.
Impact: Increase the development of specialty
knowledge among our students in machining, design, and fabrication
through construction of competitive platforms for national competitions
in the respective clubs.
Strategies
- Increase quality of incoming students by developing outreach programs to K-12 students and teachers.
- Develop innovative educational programs through:
- curriculum improvement where each area of focus faculty group in the school will modernize/improve one required or elective class each year
- modern Laboratories and classrooms by establishing endowed centers of excellence. (See Appendix D), and
- entrepreneurship and innovation into senior design lectures
- Increase student industrial and entrepreneurial experience by providing 100 % student participation in industrially funded capstone design projects.
- Increase undergraduate student research experience through NSF-REU projects which provide students with experience in university research. (Submit one NSF-REU proposal every two years).
- Increase the number of undergraduates seeking graduate school admission for professional development. Make our BS/MS program more accessible.
- Increase the level of scholarship 50% of all MME bound freshman and 50% of certified students (awards between $500 to $2000).
- Hire one full-time person to oversee development activities and increase the number of scholarships
- Increase the visibility of our programs by
- recognizing the achievements of students and faculty
- increasing Internet ranking by link popularity
- developing new marketing materials
- hiring a professional designer
- developing News letters
- Hiring: New hires should have excellent teaching skills.
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