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-Fall 2005

     Senior Exit Survey Outcome Data                                   

• Fundamental Skills Graphs                                                                                  

• Opportunities and Abilities Graphs                                             

• Educational Preparation Graphs                                                 

• Broader Aspects Graphs                                                                                                                            

    Senior Exit Survey Experience Data              

• Electrical Engineering Instruction Graph

• Engineering Instruction Graph

• Non-engineering Instruction Graph

• Instruction of Teaching Assistants Graph

• Quality of Advising Graph

• Quality of Facilities Graph

• Overall Preparation Graph