Program Outcomes and Assessments:
5- Graduates from the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at St. Cloud State University will have the ability to identify, formulate, and solve mechanical and manufacturing engineering problems.
A. Identify the characteristics of given engineering problems and clearly specify key information for modeling and solving.
1. Unable identify the characteristics of the problems and/or missed key information for modeling and solving
2. Identified some of the characteristics of the problem but missed key information for future steps.
3. Identified all characteristics of the problem but missed key information for future steps.
4. Identified all characteristics of the problem and specified some key information for the solution.
5. Identified the characteristic of the problem accurately and specified the key information for modeling and solving clearly.
B. Understand the relations of input parameters and formulate given engineering problems correctly.
1. Unable to identify correct relations of input parameters.
2. Able to identify some input parameters but unable to formulate problems.
3. Able to identify input parameters with limited ability to formulate problems.
4. Formulate given engineering problems with some significant mistakes.
5. Formulate given engineering problems correctly without major mistakes.
C. Solve given engineering problems accurately
1. Do not have sufficient knowledge for available methods to solve given problems.
2. Has limited knowledge for available methods or cannot solve the problems correctly after identifying correct methods
3. Has good knowledge for available methods for solving the problem and solve the problems without major mistakes.
4. Able to solve problems and understand the validity of the solution.
5. Understands the validity of the solution, use multiple methods.
