Senior Exit Surveys
Starting in 2000, graduating seniors were asked to fill out exit surveys. Until the fall semester of 2002
these surveys were optional, but they have become a mandatory part of the capstone design course to ensure
that input from our student constituency is being collected twice a year.
Data from several years of senior exit surveys is available and is being used to identify several areas in which
the program can be improved:
- Freshman and Sophomore foundation courses.
- ABET a-k outcomes.
- Student advising.
- Instructional quality for ECEN faculty, adjuncts, and TA's.
- Overall preparation.
Students are asked both to rate the importance of topics or skills as well as their preparation on a 1-5
scale with 1 being lowest and 5 being highest. Asking for perceived importance and preparation makes it easier
to determine why students believe they are not receiving an adequate education in particular areas.
These beliefs can arise from real inadequacies in the curriculum or from erroneous assumptions on the
parts of students about what constitutes undergraduate education. By surveying perceived importance and
preparation the ECEN faculty can address both curricular deficiencies as well as erroneous student assumptions.
A second survey asks students to rate the quality of instruction, both within the ECEN department as well as courses
external to the department, on a 1 to 5 scale.
Senior Exit Survey Results: Spring 2000-Spring 2005
Senior Exit Survey Outcome Data
Senior Exit Survey Experience Data
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