The following factors are taken into account when developing the student outcomes:

·         The national, regional and global needs.

·         The outcomes of other chemical engineering programs with accreditation.

·         The PEOs of the chemical engineering department.

·         The ABET criteria.

·         The strategy plans for the University, the Faculty of Engineering and the Chemical Engineering department.

·         The perspectives of the alumni and industry.

 Additionally, the ABET committee thought that students should be involved in five interconnected dimensions that can ensure the attainment of the PEOs:

1.       Academic achievement and knowledge

2.       Intellectual communication

3.       Fostering community

4.       Leadership

5.       Values and spirituality

 Our Student Outcomes are the ABET 1-7 Criteria 3 Student Outcomes verbatim. Table 3.1 lists our Student Outcomes along with the ABET Criteria 3 Student Outcomes.

Table 3.1: Student Outcomes

Student Outcome ABET Criteria 3

Statement of Student Outcome

1

             an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.

2

             an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.

3

        an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.

4

           ​an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.

5

         an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.

6

            an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.

7

            an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.

 

Table 3.2: Analyzing the Student Outcomes to show its components and themes

Student Outcomes

Actions

Entity

Roots to Fruits

1

an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics

Identify,

Formulate, and

Solve

Complex Engineering Problems

Roots (principles of engineering, science, and mathematics)

2

an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic

Apply

and Produce

Engineering Design

Solutions

Fruits (Design Solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic)

3

an    ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences

Communicate

with a range of audiences

Skill (Communication)

4

an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts

Recognize

and Make

Ethical and Professional Responsibilities

and Judgments

Skill (Engineering Judgements  which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts)

5

an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and

Function,

Provide,

Create

and Establish

Team Work,

Leadership,

collaborative environment

and tasks

Skill (Leadership)

6

an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions

Develop, Conduct

Analyze, Interpret

and Use

Experimentation,

data, Analysis

and Judgment

Skill (Experimentation, analysis and making judgements)

7

an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies

Acquire and

Apply

New Knowledge

Skill (Learning strategies)

 

For better understanding and assessment of these outcomes, each of the above outcomes was subdivided into specific “sub-outcomes”, as shown in Table 3.3.

 

Table 3.3: Student Sub-outcomes

Student Outcome ABET Criteria 3

Student Sub-Outcomes

1

·         Combine mathematical and/or scientific principles to formulate models of chemical processes and other relevant systems to chemical engineering.

·         Apply concepts of integral and differential calculus and/or statistics to solve chemical engineering problems.

·         Apply the governing equations and underlying concepts of material balances, energy balances, thermodynamics, heat transfer, mass transfer, fluid flow, chemical reaction kinetics, reaction engineering, separations, process dynamics, and/or process control to chemical engineering problems.

·         Apply advanced chemistry knowledge in chemical engineering problems.

·         Make appropriate assumptions to enable reaching a practical solution and assessing the validity of the solution and how it is impacted by the assumption.

2

·         Analyze and synthesize chemical engineering unit operations.

·         Design chemical engineering processes, and their components/units to meet realistic technical, safety, economic, environmental, social, and ethical constraints.

·         Apply modern computer tools and packages for process design.

·         Use personal computers or workstations for the purposes of making engineering calculations, either using a programming language or a spreadsheet program, preparing documents or presentations, and accessing information in sources such as databases and the internet.

·         Ability to recognize and identify safety requirements.

3

·         Communicate effectively in oral, written, graphical and visual forms.

·         Understand and use modern presentations tools/skills effectively.

·         Adapt their presentation style and content to match the audience.

·         Report project findings effectively.

4

·         Recognize and comprehend the ethical concerns with chemical engineering.

·         Develop standards for ethical professional conduct.

·         Recognize and uphold an engineer's ethical obligations.

·         Recognize the value of service to the profession and excellence in the workplace.

·         Recognize the social effects of an engineering background.

·         Appreciate the value of engineering solutions to current issues.

·         Be aware of the effects that engineering decisions have on the local and global environment, economy, and society.

·         Know and understand the current political, social, economic, and environmental issues.

·         Be aware of how technology is affecting regional, societal, and global challenges.

·         Adopt improvements in disciplines and technologies relevant to chemical engineering..

5

·         Know how Tasks should be planned, distributed, and organized in a team setting.

·         Be a successful member of multidisciplinary teams.

·         Manage a crisis situation collaboratively.

6

·         Create and develop experimental techniques.

·         Perform experiments and use laboratory supplies, tools, and procedures safely.

·         Examine and interpret raw experimental data.

·         Report confidence intervals, compare for differences that are statistically significant, and determine whether an experimental variable has a substantial impact on the outcome that was measured using statistics.

7

·         Demonstrate a willingness to learn.

·         Have the desire to pursue additional education and training.

·         Be able to use a variety of informational and educational sources, including printed textbooks, scholarly and technical publications, the internet, and educational software, with ease.

·         Recognize the dynamic, ever-evolving nature of science, engineering, technology, and industry.

·         Recognize that learning doesn't stop after getting a B.Sc.

·         Use contemporary methods and tools to solve engineering issues.

·         Locate the journal articles, books, and reference materials required for engineering practice at a contemporary technical library.

 

A.  Relationship of Student Outcomes to Program Educational Objectives

 The above objectives fulfil the requirements of all ABET students learning outcomes (1-7) through a well-organized study plan, guiding plan, and map of prerequisites for the study plan. The following Table shows the matching between the above objectives and ABET engineering students learning outcomes.

 

Table: Relationship of objectives to program outcomes.

ABET

1-7

Engineering Student Outcomes

 

PEO 1

PEO 2

PEO 3

1

an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics

✔✔✔

✔✔✔

2

an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic

✔✔✔

✔✔✔

3

an    ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences

✔✔✔

✔✔✔

✔✔✔

4

an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts

✔✔✔

✔✔✔

✔✔

5

an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and

✔✔

✔✔

✔✔✔

6

an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze, and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions

 

✔✔✔

 

7

an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies

✔✔✔

✔✔✔

 

Figure (a) shows an analogy between shooting a target and directing a learning outcome towards achieving a program outcome. Figure (b) shows the big picture of connecting Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) with Program Educational Outcomes (PEOs) in analogy of bow shooters shooting different targets (Prepared by Dr. M. Aliedeh).

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