Evaluation and Sustainability Plan. The Department of Nuclear Engineering has standard procedures to regularly evaluate the performance of all faculty members, junior, mid-career, and senior, in all three main realms of academic responsibility, consistent with the college and university level of annual faculty evaluation. These procedures are particularly important for junior and untenured faculty because they track their progress towards tenure and provide them feedback as to how well and how fast they are meeting tenure’s expectations. This procedure will be used in evaluating the effectiveness of selected new hires who will receive NRC Faculty Development Funds, and mentoring their academic progress towards tenure. Although full success will solely be determined at the time of conferring tenure to tenure- track assistant and associate level faculty, however, the NRC funds will play a major role in helping them faculty achieving their goal in their academic career. The department head conducts an annual performance review for all departmental tenured or tenure-track faculty upon the conclusion of the spring semester. The co-PI conducts similar performance review of the special hires as he is serving as the Department Head Equivalence (DHE) for special hires. The annual review is based on a Faculty Activity Report (FAR) compiled by each faculty member that captures all pertinent activities they engaged in, whether successful or not, during the just-concluded academic year. The FAR includes the following activities and performance measures in view of the Statement of Faculty Responsibilities (SFR):
Evaluation and Sustainability Plan. The Department of Nuclear Engineering has standard procedures to regularly evaluate the performance of all faculty members, junior, mid-career, and senior, in all three main realms of academic responsibility, consistent with the college and university level of annual faculty evaluation. These procedures are particularly important for junior and untenured faculty because they track their progress towards tenure and provide them feedback as to how well and how fast they are meeting tenure’s expectations. The procedures will be used in evaluating the effectiveness of the proposed NRC Faculty development Funds in attracting suitable candidates, identifying and hiring a highly qualified applicants), and mentoring their academic progress tenure. Although full success will solely be determined at the time of conferring tenure to tenure-track assistant and associate level faculty, however, the NRC funds will play a major role in helping the faculty achieving their goal and shaping their academic career. The department head conducts an annual performance review for all tenured or tenure- track departmental faculty upon the conclusion of the spring semester. The co-PI conducts similar performance review of the special hires as he is serving as the Department Head Equivalence (DHE) for special hires. The annual review is based on a Faculty Activity Report (FAR) compiled by each faculty member that captures all pertinent activities they engaged in, whether successful or not, during the just-concluded academic year. The FAR includes the following activities and performance measures:
i. Teaching assignments: number and level of courses taught, and student evaluations of these courses and evaluation of the instructor (including open-ended comments).
ii. Peer review of teaching by the senior faculty member(s) assigned as in-class teaching evaluator(s) and mentor(s).
iii. Undergraduate and graduate student advising: number of students advised, degree sought, and amount of progress towards degree; particular emphasis is placed on PhDs.
iv. Scholarly achievement and peer-reviewed publications and participation in technical conferences: number and type of papers submitted/published, reputation of the journals/conferences and symposia.
v. Funded research proposals: number and competitiveness of submitted proposals; requested and awarded funding, as well as success rate.
vi. Services to the profession and the community: number and leadership level of service appointments within...
