Self-Study Report Sample

ABET

Self-Study Report

for the

COMPUTER ENGINEERING PROGRAM

at

QASSIM PRIVATE COLLEGES

BURIDAH, SAUDI ARABIA

First of June 2015

Table of Contents

Introduction 3

Requirements and Preparation 3

Supplemental Materials 4

Submission and Distribution of Self-Study Report 4

Confidentiality 5

Template 5

BACKGROUND INFORMATION 7

GENERAL CRITERIA 9

CRITERION 1. STUDENTS 9

CRITERION 2. PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES 11

CRITERION 3. STUDENT OUTCOMES 12

CRITERION 4. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT 13

CRITERION 5. CURRICULUM 15

CRITERION 6. FACULTY 17

CRITERION 7. FACILITIES 20

CRITERION 8. INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT 22

PROGRAM CRITERIA 23

Appendix A – Course Syllabi 24

Appendix B – Faculty Vitae 25

Appendix C – Equipment 26

Appendix D

The program is offered in two modes, days and evenings. In both modes the students are full-time students and teaching is face-to-face on campus in the College of Computer building. The academic year is composed of two 15-week regular semesters in the Fall and Spring semesters and a 8-week condensed Summer. Each graduating student has to successfully complete 130 credits for Option-I, Senior Design Project and 131 credits for Option-II, Cooperative Work . Each semester credit is a 60-minutes lecture a week or 180-minutes of lab a week.

E. Program Locations

The College of Computer has a new recently constructed building . The infrastructure and facilities are adequate for the COE program educational process. The building is on the main campus. All lectures, classes, labs are taught and administrated in the COE classes and labs.

F. Public Disclosure

Provide information concerning all the places where the Program Education Objectives (PEOs), Student Outcomes (SOs), annual student enrollment and graduation data is posted or made accessible to the public. If this information is posted to the Web, please provide the

Good Standing: This status is assigned to all students at the beginning of their course of study. Students are expected to maintain this standing till their graduation. This involves a minimum GPA of 2.5 out of 5.0 in the student’s cumulative and semester GPA.

2. Academic Warning: A student will be given this status after the final grades have been processed at the end of each regular semester if: (a) his cumulative GPA is less than 2.5 but more than 1.0, out of 5.0; (b) his semester GPA is less than 2.5 out of 5.0.

3. Academic Probation: A student is given this status after the final grades have been processed at the end of a regular semester, if his cumulative GPA is less than 1.0 out of 5.0.

4. Discontinued: A student is discontinued for at least one regular semester in either of the following two cases, if: (a) he/she was previously on academic warning or probation in a regular semester and in the next term achieved a semester GPA of less than 1.5 out of 5.0; (b) the student receives three consecutive academic warnings. The Dean of the College may however give the student an opportunity to continue his studies following the recommendation of the relevant college