1. Program Evaluation

Defining the Purpose of Your Program:

• The purpose of a program must help students achieve outcomes and is therefore driven by their needs
• The purpose of a program must also be aligned with that of the Faculty or School which in turn is aligned with that of the institution
• A program statement of purpose answers the following questions, which you considered in the previous section:

1. What do we do?
2. For whom?
3. For what benefit?

 

 

The statement of purpose should be specific enough to outline what it is you do, and provide a touchstone against to align content and instructional and assessment methods of courses in the program. The following Examples will help you to get started.

[expand title=”Example 1: (Click to see examples) ” rel=”expendable-highlander”] 1) The purpose of the Civil Engineering program is to provide a focused problem-based, education in areas of Structural, Geotechnical, Hydro-technical and Environmental Engineering to academically elite undergraduates to support ethical and economically and environmentally sustainable practices.

[/expand] [expand title=”Example 2: ” rel=”expendable-highlander”] 1) The purpose of our program is to provide a high quality and broad engineering education, to conduct strong basic and applied research and to serve the industry, the profession and the community at large through innovative solutions, dissemination of knowledge and advancement of science and technology . [/expand]