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Turner,  \nDepartment of Civil Engineering,  \nDarrell Schroder,  \nAssistant Dean, College of Engineering,  \nAnthony Tarquin,  \nDepartment of Civil Engineering  \nWilliam L. Craver, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering University of Texas at El Paso  \nAbstract  \nThe faculty of the College of Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) decided in 2000 to require all students in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and Industrial Engineering to take and pass the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveyors (NCEES) Fundamentals Exam (FE) before graduating. Additionally, passage of a competency examination is required for all students in these departments in order to enroll in upper division classes. This paper reports on the results of these actions.  \nThe legislative budget committee in the State of Texas decided to require reporting ofFE results for all University of Texas (UT) System schools offering engineering degrees in 1998. The stated purpose was that the results of the FE exam are to be used as a nationally normed assessment tool for UT System engineering school performance. The fear among some administrators is that the FE exam performance will be tied to funding of engineering programs at the various institutions. Anticipation of this future possibility led the faculty in the Department of Civil Engineering to require passage of the FE exam as an undergraduate degree requirement. The other departments followed suit. Since the ABET accreditation visit was scheduled for 2001, the FE exam was also adopted as an assessment tool. Quality control of students entering the upper division also became a concern because passage of the FE is tightly linked to performance in lower division coursework. Therefore, a competency exam for rising juniors was implemented as a quality control and assessment measure. An information program to inform students of the new measures and two sets of review opportunities were developed to ensure student success on the FE exam. Quantitative results of these new requirements and the impact on student attitudes and performance and the feed back loop to course modifications are reviewed.  \nState of Texas FE Performance Requirement  \nThe State of Texas has spent many years developing evaluation criteria for its various agencies and components. Texas public institutions with engineering programs are now required to report  \n“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual conference & Exposition Copyright c 2003, American Society for Engineering Education ”  \nPage 8.1261.1  \npass rates achieved by their graduates on the Fundamentals of Engineering examination. For example, the state mandated goal at UTEP is a pass rate of 80% . If the yearly pass rate for this institution falls below 75%, the chief academic officer of the institution is required to submit an explanation to the Legislative Budget Board of the state. The use of the Fundamentals Exam for assessment was discussed in the literature by LeFevere, Steadman and White (1999) . Since the State of Texas is using the FE as an assessment tool, UTEP must do so as well.  \nCompetency Exam  \nThe competency exam was created in an e fort to assess the knowledge students gained in their lower division coursework and as an assessment tool for UTEP ’s ABET visit in the fall of2001. The FE exam was being considered as an assessment tool for measuring performance but the faculty wanted the outcome to be as positive as possible. One way of accomplishing this was to require students entering the upper division to pass an exam based on coursework in the lower division. This type of exam is sometimes termed a “rising junior” exam. All students are required to take and pass the exam prior to registering for upper division coursework. This includes both transfer and","cbCaigpI2dcJDt8H","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigpI2dcJDt8H","pdf",276139,"English","# Abstract\n## State of Texas FE Performance Requirement\n## Competency Exam\n## Pass/Fail Results and Score Criteria","[{\"question\":\"What requirement did UTEP implement for engineering students regarding the FE exam?\",\"answer\":\"UTEP required students in several engineering departments to take and pass the NCEES Fundamentals Exam before graduating, and to pass a competency examination to enroll in upper-division classes.\"},{\"question\":\"Why did the Texas legislature require reporting of FE results?\",\"answer\":\"Texas required universities to report pass rates to use FE outcomes as a nationally normed assessment tool for engineering school performance across the UT System.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the competency exam structured and when could students retake it?\",\"answer\":\"The competency exam consisted of 70 questions across covered FE areas (excluding Computer Science), administered twice during the semester before upper-division registration; if a student failed the first attempt, they could retake it the following week.\"}]","Using the Fundamentals Exam as a Legislative Performance Indicator | PDF",18]