Assessment

Assessment of the success of this program and its impact on student learning outcomes will be done in conjunction with existing assessment activities at all three Universities involved in this project. An assessment plan has three components:

  1. goals,
  2. measures, and
  3. feedback.
The goals of this work are to give students an appreciation of the environmental regulations and environmental consequences of chemical engineering, and for students to understand basic methods for minimizing environmental impact. The measures of these goals will be a function of the assessment plans at the three Universities. These measures will include senior-year individual and group design projects with an environmental component, questionnaires to students and alumni that will be modified to include additional components relevant to pollution prevention, and interviews with students which will include environmentally-related questions. Additional measures may be added as the project progresses. Finally, the feedback component for continuous improvement will involve keeping faculty who are using both the environmentally-related design projects and homework problems aware of success observed in achieving the stated goals. Continuing assessment and corrective action will ensure that the goals of this project are achieved.