How the UCSC CE & EE Programs are finding ABET outcomes and components This is a description of how we decided to produce the documentation for ABET as far as what our courses covered, which outcomes or professional components they helped satisfy, and what our monitoring and feedback mechanisms were for each outcome or component.

To get all of our data together, we worked in several steps

1. Each extended course description was assigned to a faculty member who had either originated or had recently taught the course. The description was to include only information of use to any instructor of the course and no ABET-specific information.
2. Each extended course description was reviewed by at least two faculty members who did not come up with the course description. These faculty members would determine which of the ABET outcomes and professional components were covered by the course (and which lines of the extended course description supported this claim). Disagreements were discussed between faculty member, perhaps with adjudication from the chair or ABET coordinator. At times the writer of the extended course description was asked if the description had perhaps left something out or was in some way inadequate. This led to several description modifications.
3. Each ABET outcome and professional component had at least one faculty member assigned to it (in some cases, several). That faculty representative reviewed each course said to fulfill the assigned outcome and also looked over the list of courses for those that might have been inadvertently omitted. The representative would also review the feedback mechanism previously suggested by the ABET coordinator and suggest changes or additions.
4. The Oversight committee read each report and distilled it down to a few metrics that could be easily computed and applied each year. Any outcome that does not pass all metrics must be examined and the oversight committee must present recommendations to the faculty and the advisory counsil.
5. 5. This August (and every August thereafter), the Oversight Committee will present a report on each of our outcomes and the results of applying their metrics to the CE Advisory Council, a body composed of a subset of CE faculty and a subset of the SOE Dean's Advisory Council. The oversight committee will present plans of action, which may include curricular changes, for any metrics falling below previously stated standards. Curricular changes approved by the CE Advisory Council will be binding for future catalog years.