QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
The City University of New York
MEMORANDUM
Office of Academic Affairs
Telephone: (718) 631-6344
Fax: (718) 631-8284
TO:
Prof. Stu Asser, Chair, Engineering Technology
Dr. David Lieberman, Chair, Physics
FROM:
Dr. Karen Steele
Vice President for Academic Affairs
DATE:
June 5, 2012
SUBJECT:
Administrative Report – Update to Engineering Science Action Plan – 2011
As preparation for this year’s year-end reports, based on a meeting of June 4, 2012, with department chairs
and faculty representatives, here is a follow-up to the action plan for the Engineering Science degree
program, which was reviewed in 2011.
The action plan for the Engineering Science program involved program ownership and relevance,
articulation, advisement, and promotion.
The department chairs and review committee agreed that, rather than giving one department ownership,
regular meetings of the sponsoring departments’ academic chairs would be instituted (beginning in 20112012 and periodically every year) to ensure program coherence and interdepartmental communication.
The plan called for a major new effort to update and expand articulation agreements with CUNY and
SUNY, with OAA support, should be implemented (beginning in 2011 and ongoing).
To address the issues raised about data in the site team report, OAA has collaborated with Institutional
Research to establish standardized data sets, much like that presented by the external reviewers, for use by
review committees for their analysis of academic programs and assessment of student outcomes. Based on
the work accomplished this year, data sets will be available for the next round of program review in 20132014 (ETAC of ABET is scheduled for 2012-2013).
The plan called for a major curricular revision, featuring a common core and three concentration options:
electrical, mechanical, and chemical. Other options would be developed, if needed, in subsequent years.
This effort has been rescheduled because of the modifications required by the Pathways common core but
will be reinitiated in the 2012-2013 academic year.
The plan called for the timetable of course assessment below:
Key courses to
be assessed
General Education
Objectives (1-10)
EE-204
MA-441
MT-293
PH- 411
PH-412
PH-413
PH-416
PH-440
3, 4, 5, 7, 9
2, 3, 5
3, 4, 5, 7, 9
2, 3, 5, 9
2, 3, 5, 9
2, 3, 5, 9
2, 3, 5, 9
2, 3, 5, 9
Date last
assessed
Date of next
assessment
2012
2011
2012
2012
2012, 2014
2012, 2014
2013
2014
The plan called for specially designated Engineering Science advisement, with the support of Academic
Affairs and Student Affairs, and training sessions of student support staff by program faculty. Regular
meetings of department chairs with student support services would be conducted each academic year to
ensure communication of accurate and updated information.
Finally, the plan called for a redesign and expansion of the Web site, with exploration of other promotional
venues like Facebook.
cc:
Dr. Diane Call, Interim President
Dr. Arthur Corradetti, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Prof. Nicholas DiZinno, Engineering Technology
Dr. Wenli Guo, Physics
Mr. Jeffrey Schwartz, Engineering Technology