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> Office of the Provost > Student Outcomes Assessment > Advising Plans
Civil Engineering
Advising Goals
- Goal 1: Provide timely advice that helps each student to take the
courses required for his or her degree in an appropriate sequence.
- Goal 2: Maintain complete, accurate, and current academic records so
that each adviser will be able to achieve Goal 1.
- Goal 3: Ensure that one member of the department's staff develops
exceptional advising expertise, so that person can provide timely and
accurate advice for both students and faculty.
- Goal 4: Maintain a friendly and helpful atmosphere throughout the
academic advising process.
- Goal 5: Provide students with sound advice about careers and
opportunities for postgraduate education.
- Goal 6: Provide a "sounding board" for students with problems that are
not related to academics or career choices.
Advising Policy
A student is assigned to a faculty adviser when he or she declares a
major in one of the department's degree programs. Normally, a student
remains with the same adviser for the duration his or her undergraduate
program. Academic advising is required during each preregistration
period. The department has an "open door policy", and students are urged
to seek academic or career advice whenever they have questions.
Recent Changes and Future Plans
- To Improve Quality of Advising
- The Department of Civil Engineering has made no functional changes to
its advising system since Fall 1995, but has added two faculty members
to its cadre of advisers. The department's faculty feels that its
current system is sound, and that the great majority of its students is
served very well.
- To Improve Accessibility of Advisors
- The Department of Civil Engineering has made no changes to improve the
accessibility of advisors since Fall 1995, other than adding two faculty
members to its cadre of advisers. The department proposes to make the
following change: to provide two one-week advising "windows", during
which advisers guarantee to be available to students, either on a
drop-in basis or on an appointment basis. This should be more efficient
for the faculty advisers and remind students that they should contact
their advisers well in advance of their registration times.
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