Program Outcomes and Assessments:
9 - Graduates from the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at St. Cloud State University will have the broad education necessary to understand the social, economic, environmental, and global impact of engineering solutions.
A. Ability to assess economic and environmental impact.
1. Assessment of the economic and environmental impact is missing.
2. An assessment of the economic and environmental impact is marginally presented without sufficient data.
3. Assessment of the economic and environmental impact is in sufficient detail to establish a baseline cost estimate and to evidence the economic benefit of a project.
4. Assessment of the economic and environmental impact is used for planning, monitoring, and controlling with sufficient data and analysis.
5. Assessment of the economic and environmental impact is used for planning, monitoring, and controlling and for verifying the economic benefit against real data at the completion of a project.
B. Ability to explain the social and global impact of engineering solutions.
1. Explanation of social or global implications is missing.
2. Ability to identify either relevant social or relevant global factors.
3. Ability to identify relevant social and global factors.
4. Ability to explain the social and global impact with some details.
5. Ability to explain the social and global impact with sufficient evidence.
