Outcome Assessment At The U.S. Military Academy

The United States Military Academy (USMA) recently had seven of its programs favorably reviewed by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) and the Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). The favorable comments of the review board members validated the USMA’s model for continuous assessment. USMA has developed unique practices for assessing student performance, including course diaries and extensive graduate surveys; practices that were in place before the previous ABET/CAC visit and which continue to be useful. USMA also has unique institutional structures such as a special faculty council and inter-departmental faculty goal teams that tightly integrate the development and assessment of the engineering and computer science programs across the academic program.