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ABET
Self-Study Report
for the
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Program at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
DHAHRAN, SAUDI ARABIA
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Table of Contents
BACKGROUND INFORMATION 7 0.1. Contact Information 7
0.2. Program History 7
0.3. Options 8
0.4. Organizational Structure 8
0.5. Program Delivery Modes 12
0.6. Deficiencies, Weaknesses or Concerns from Previous
Evaluation(s) and the Actions taken to Address them 12 CRITERION 1. STUDENTS 16 1.1. Student Admissions 16
1.2. Evaluating Student Performance 18
1.3. Advising Students 19
1.4. Transfer Students and Transfer Courses 21
1.5. Graduation Requirements 23
1.6. Enrollment and Graduation Trends 26 CRITERION 2. PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES 29 2.1. Mission Statement 29
2.2. Program Educational Objectives 30
2.3. Consistency of the Program Educational Objectives with the
Mission of the Institution 31
2.4. Program Constituencies 32
2.5. Process for Establishing Program Educational Objectives 33
2.6. Achievement of Program Educational Objectives 36 CRITERION 3. PROGRAM OUTCOMES 43 3.1. Process for Establishing and Revising Program Outcomes 43
3.2. Program Outcomes 44
3.3. Relationship of Program Outcomes to Program Educational
Objectives 46
3.4. Relationship of courses in the Curriculum to the Program
Outcomes 47
3.5. Documentation 54
3.6. Achievement of Program Outcomes 56 CRITERION 4. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT 99 4.1. Information Used for Program Improvement 99
4.2. Action to Improve the Program 100 CRITERION 5. CURRICULUM 111 5.1. Program Curriculum 111
5.2. Prerequisite Flow Chart 127
5.3. Course Syllabi 129 CRITERION 6. FACULTY 130 6.1. Leadership Responsibility 130
6.2. Authority and Responsibility of Faculty 130
6.3. Faculty 131
6.4. Faculty Competencies 133
6.5. Faculty Size 138
6.6. Faculty CVs 140
6.7. Faculty Development 140 CRITERION 7. FACILITIES 145 7.1. Space 145
7.2. Resources and Support 148
7.3. Major Instructional and Laboratory Equipment 154 CRITERION 8. SUPPORT 155 8.1. Program Budget Process 155
8.2. Sources of Financial Support 155
8.3. Adequacy of Budget 155
8.4. Support of Faculty Professional Development 155
8.5. Support of Facilities and Equipment 156
8.6. Adequacy of Support Personnel and Institutional Services
156 CRITERION 9. PROGRAM CRITERIA 159 Appendix A. COURSE SYLLABI A-1
Appendix B. FACULTY RESUMES B-1
Appendix C. LABORATORY EQUIPMENT C-1
Appendix D. INSTITUTIONAL SUMMARY D-1 List of Tables Table 0.4-1. Committees/coordinators, committee membership, and duties
10 Table 0.4-2. Industry Advisory Committee 11 Table 1.1-1. History of Admissions Standards for Past Five Years 18 Table 1.4-1. Transfer Students for Past Five Academic Years 23 Table 1.5-1. BS Regular Program (Without COOP) 25 Table 1.5-2. BS Regular Program (With COOP) 25 Table 1.6-1 . Enrollment Trends for Past Five Academic Years 27 Table 1.6-2. Program Graduates 27 Table 2.4-1 . Industry Advisory Committee Membership 33 Table 2.5-1. Planning the review process of the PEOs 36 Table 2.6-1. Alumni Survey for T062 and T082 37 Table 3.3-1. Mapping between program outcomes and program educational
objectives. 46 Table 3.4-1. Coverage of Program Outcomes. 49 Table 3.4-2. Mapping from course outcomes to program outcomes 49 Table 3.4-3. Program Outcome Performance Indicators: (c) an ability to
design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs 53 Table 3.6-1. Mapping between selected courses and PO Rubrics. 59 Table 3.6-2. Program outcomes assessment and evaluation methods,
performance target, and logistics. 68 Table 3.6-3. Planning the review process of the PEOs and PO 76 Table 3.6-4. Planning the Indirect Assessment & Consulting the Industry
Advisory Committee 76 Table 3.6-5. Planning the Continuous Improvement and Program Assessment
processes. 76 Table 3.6-6. Example of course learning outcomes evaluation (by Faculty).
79 Table 3.6-7. Course learning outcomes indirect assessment (Student Survey)
81 Table 3.6-8. Summary of overall achievement status for course outcomes for
eleven core courses for Term 062. 82 Table 3.6-9. Summary of overall achievement status for course outcomes for
eleven core courses for Term 071. 83 Table 3.6-10. Student Scores in Supporting Course for T081 86 Table 3.6-11. Exit Survey Results for T081 87 Table 3.6-12. Rubrics Assessment Data for T062, T071, T072, and T081
92 Table 3.6-13. Integration of Assessment Data for Program Outcomes 94 Table 4.2-1. Plan for Progressive Introduction of Engineering Design
104 Table 4.2-2. Action Plan and Progress Made Towards Improving outcome (g-W)
106 Table 5.1-1. Curriculum of the Computer Engineering Program (Without COOP)
112 Table 5.1-2. Curriculum of the Computer Engineering Program (With COOP)
114 Table 5.1-3. Culminating Learning Experience through the COE Program
119 Table 5.1-4. Computer Science component in the COE program. 123 Table 5.1-5. General Education Component 125 Table 6.3-1. Workload Summary of COE Faculty 131 Table 6.4-1. COE Faculty Analysis 134 Table 6.4-2. COE faculty showing areas of specialization and curricular
program area(s) covered. 136 Table 7.1-1. Classrooms sizes. 145 Table 7.1-2. Laboratories sizes. 146 Table 7.2-1. Approved labs budgets (Fiscal years 2005 - 2009). 151 Table 7.2-2. Lab budget allocation (Fiscal year 2005). 151 Table 7.2-3. Lab budget allocation (Fiscal year 2006). 152 Table 7.2-4. Lab budget allocation (Fiscal year 2007). 152 Table 7.2-5. Lab budget allocation (Fiscal year 2008). 153 Table 7.2-6. Lab budget allocation (Fiscal year 2009). 153 Table 8.1-1. Department expenditure (Fiscal year 2008). 155 Table 8.6-1. KFUPM main library's collection. 157 Table 8.6-2. Number of library items related to COE. 157 Table 8.6-3. KFUPM main library's expenditures (Fiscal years 2006 - 2008).
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List of Figures Figure 0.4-1. Overview of the COE program organizational structure 9 Figure 2.5-1. Overview of the PEOs Assessment Process 35 Figure 2.6-1. VSSN Alumni satisfaction percentile vs PEO-1(1.1-1.6), PEO-2
(2.1-2.2), and PEO-3 (3.1-3.3) 38 Figure 2.6-2. VSS Alumni satisfaction percentile vs PEO-1(1.1-1.6), PEO-2
(2.1-2.2), and PEO-3 (3.1-3.3) 39 Figure 2.6-3. Employer satisfaction percentile vs PEO-1(1.1-1.6), 41 Figure 3.6-1. Program outcomes assessment process. 58 Figure 3.6-2. Exit Survey: Percentile of Satisfaction for the POs. 88 Figure 3.6-3. COOP Supervisor Survey: percentile of satisfaction for the
POs 89 Figure 3.6-4. Employer Survey: percentile of satisfaction with the POs
90 Figure 3.6-5. Average Rubrics Score for T062, T071, and T072. 93 Figure 3.6-6. Average Rubrics Scores for T081. 93 Figure 5.2-1. COE Program Flow-Chart for the BSc without COOP. 128 Figure 5.2-2. COE Program Flow-Chart for the BSc with COOP. 129 Figure 7.2-1. KFUPM network connectivity. 149 Self-Study Report
COMPUTER ENGINEERING PROGRAM Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS BACKGROUND INFORMATION
1 Contact Information Dr. Adnan A. Gutub
Chairman of the Computer Engineering Department
College of Computer Science and Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
KFUPM Box 5056
Tel: +966-3-860-2110
Fax. +966-3-860-3059 Email: gutub@kfupm.edu.sa
2 Program History King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) was established in
September 1963. The first students were admitted a year later when 67 young
men enrolled in what was then the College of Petroleum and Minerals (CPM).
Since that time, the University enrollment has grown to more than 10000
students. The university has been all-male institution since that date. Several significant events have marked the University's growth. In 1971, at
the first graduation ceremony, four men received their baccalaureate
degrees in engineering. In 1975, the College of Petroleum and Minerals
became the University of Petroleum and Minerals, a change both in name and
academic status. In 1986, the University was renamed: King Fahd University
of Petroleum and Minerals.
The computer engineering program (COE) was established in 1986 at the
College of Computer Sciences and Engineering (CCSE) at King Fahd Un