Educational Objectives

Faculty will contact, via phone or mail, at least 50% of the alumni four years after graduation. In addition to a general discussion faculty will ask:

• What has been your job history for the last four years?

• Have your responsibilities increased over the last four years?

• Did your coursework help you adapt initially to your new job?

• Has the problem solving that you learned in school helped you through your job?

• Have you been able to contribute to improving the quality of your company’s software products or computing environment?

• Are you a member of any professional societies?

• Do you have any problems with our contacting your employer? If you are the only recent employee (hired in the last five years) from our Computer Science Department we probably will not be contacting him/her.

• Have you completed a graduate program? In what field? If you didn’t finish the degree, why?

• Did your undergraduate coursework prepare you adequately for graduate school?

• Did you need to take additional courses to address deficiencies and if so, what courses?

• Are you a member of any professional societies?

• Have you published any papers or attended any professional conferences since you started graduate school?

Interviewing employers

We keep track of where graduates of the program have been hired and we attempt to contact those employers that have hired two or more of our graduates in the past five years. We will get permission to contact employers through the appropriate channels on a  per employer basis.

Questions to employers:

Please focus on graduates of Montana Tech CS department over the last 3-5 years.

Every two years an assessment committee composed of the CS faculty, members of the IAB, a recent graduate (4-5 years out) and a current upper division student look over the results to determine how well we are meeting our objectives and recommend changes to the program as well as to the objectives assessment process. Educational objectives and the assessment process will remain constant for the intervening two years.