Results of Fundamental of Engineering Exam for ECEN students.

The following PDF documents summarize the results of the FE exam from the years 1997 to 2003.  Half of the total number of students who we have data for took the exam in 2002 following our adoption of this exam as an assessment metric.

The FE exam is given in two parts.  A general examination covering all of engineering is given in the morning (AM).  In the afternoon (PM) students may opt to take a second general exam or a subject specific (i.e. electrical engineering exam).  The reports detail how well our students performed compared to national averages.  The ABET committee has highlighted areas which are either two or three standard deviations above the national average (AA or AAA), or two or three standard deviations below the national average (BB or BBB).  Within two standard deviations either way is not considered to be a "crisis item".

The following reports compare ECEN students to other electrical engineering students nationwide.

The two following links are the most informative for us.

• 1997-2002 ECEN student performance on PM subject exam. 

• 1998-2003 ECEN student performance on PM subject exam.

The following links contain ECEN student performance on AM general and PM subject exam for those students who took the exam in each respective month. 

• October 1998

• April 1999

• October 1999

• April 2000

• April 2001

• October 2001

• April 2002

• October 2002

• April 2003

• October 2003

• April 2004

• October 2004

• April 2005

• October 2005

The following link contains data pertaining to the GPA graphs below.

• GPA Data.

Graphs

• Graph of percentage difference between ECEN correct answers and national average.

• ECEN GPA Graphs:  Fall 2002-Spring 2004, Fall 2004-Fall 2005

• FE Exam GPA Graphs. These graphs are plotting the GPAs of ECEN students that took the FE Exam for each semester from Fall 2002.

• Comparison graph of the average GPA of all ECEN students to the average GPA of ECEN students that took the FE Exam.