Fundamentals of Program Assessment

April 15, 2026
  • Beginner
  • 1 Day
  • Raleigh, NC
Workshop Dates
Apr
15
2026
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
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About this Workshop

The Fundamentals of Program Assessment Workshop is a workshop designed with a focus on small group interaction and individual assignments to introduce the context for program assessment, examine assessment processes, develop measurable outcomes and apply data collection and reporting methods. The exercises and examples are from associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s and/or tech-focused programs. These can be applied to other program types and/or timeframes.

This workshop will allow you to work in teams and ask questions of experienced facilitators.

This workshop prepares you to:

  • Identify key elements of a functional assessment process.
  • Clarify the similarities and differences between course and program assessment.
  • Make student outcomes measurable with the development of performance indicators.
  • Understand the methods to assess student outcomes.
  • Develop rubrics as one method to score student performance in achieving student outcomes.
  • Identify the pros and cons of various data collection methods.
  • Decipher and report results.

Workshop Details

REGISTRATION
Registration for this one-day, in-person workshop during ABET Symposium 2026 is now available! Please contact education@abet.org if you have any questions.

WHEN
This workshop takes place Wednesday, April 15, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET.

WORKSHOP LOCATION & ACCOMMODATIONS
This workshop will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA at the Raleigh Convention Center. ABET has secured discounted guest room rates at (3) hotels located next to the Raleigh Convention Center, the host venue for ABET Symposium 2026. See our Hotel & Travel page here. Please reach out to symposium@abet.org if you have any questions or concerns.

WORKSHOP COST
The cost for this workshop is $760 if you register by Dec. 16, 2025.

The cost for this workshop is $890 if you register after Dec. 16, 2025.

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Workshop Facilitators

Jennifer “Jenny” Amos, Ph.D.

Jenny Amos is a Teaching Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is a AIMBE Fellow, BMES Fellow, ABET Commissioner and Executive Committee Member for EAC, two-time Fulbright Specialist in engineering education (France and Brazil) and has won multiple awards and recognitions for her teaching and scholarship of teaching. Outside of BME, she has also worked to revolutionize the future of graduate medical education serving as a founding member of the new Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, a first-of-its-kind engineering driven college of medicine. Amos was a PI of the Illinois NSF RED (Revolutionizing Engineering & Computer Science Departments) research team leading efforts to innovate assessment practices for engineering toward producing more holistic engineers. Amos has a decade’s worth of experience leading curriculum reform implementing robust assessment strategies at multiple institutions.

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Christina Haden, Ph.D.

Dr. Christina Viau Haden is a faculty member in the mechanical engineering and mechanics department at Lehigh University. Her research involves the material property prediction of additively manufactured metals. Besides her research, a passion for teaching has lead her to co-develop of a new interdisciplinary course at Lehigh at the intersection of art and engineering on the topic of Leonardo da Vinci’s life works. Haden also leads her department’s ABET accreditation process, enjoys being an ABET facilitator and serves as the chair of her department’s undergraduate curriculum committee. Haden is also deeply committed to improving the retention rates of women in STEM. She runs a yearly three-day welcome event for incoming engineering freshwomen at Lehigh University, offers a mentoring program for women in her department and advises the Society for Women Engineers (SWE) and Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) local chapter, among others.

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James Warnock, Ph.D.

James Warnock, Ph.D., received his bachelor’s in biological sciences from the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Warnock earned his master’s in biochemical engineering as well as his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK.
During his doctoral studies, he spent two months as a research fellow in the Department of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at Kobe University, Japan. James relocated to Atlanta, GA, in 2003 and spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology with a joint appointment between the School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering.
James is currently the Founding Chair and a Professor in the School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Georgia. He is actively involved in engineering education research and has earned international attention for his work on using problem-based learning to enable students to develop their professional skills. In 2011, he was invited to present work at the Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium, hosted by the National Academy of Engineering. Before coming to Athens, James served as a professor and associate dean for academic affairs at Mississippi State University’s Bagley College of Engineering. In this role, he was responsible for coordinating the assessment activities of 11 engineering/computer science programs within eight departments.
In July 2011, he was invited to become the first Adjunct Director for Professional Development at ABET. He has consequently been involved in the planning, preparation and facilitation of numerous ABET workshops, including the one-day Program Assessment Workshops and IDEAL. He is an ABET Senior IDEAL Scholar.

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Karen Tarnoff, Ph.D.

Dr. Karen J. Tarnoff is the Associate Dean for Assurance of Learning, Assessment and International Programs for the College of Business and Technology at East Tennessee State University. In this capacity, she coordinates the assessment of student learning outcomes across seven diverse departments (Accountancy; Economics and Finance; Management and Marketing; Computing; Military Science; Engineering, Engineering Technology, and Surveying; and Digital Media) and multiple accrediting bodies (SACS, AACSB, ABET, NASAD, CIDA). Tarnoff is a facilitator for the AACSB and has authored materials for its Assurance of Learning I and II Seminars. She has published and given presentations on assessment-related topics and has helped many schools develop, implement and refine their assessment systems.

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