Our regional accrediting body now requires outcome assessment of general education outcomes. Because of this mandate, and our new mission at the University of Hartford to prepare students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive and be engaged in a pluralistic, complex world, we have undertaken a project to develop and assess core liberal education outcomes. This paper describes the planning and actions thus far to meet these new requirements at the university and

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... cally in our engineering programs. We have begun to expand outcome assessment to include five "intellectual and practical skills," specifically, critical and creative thinking, inquiry/analysis, problem-solving, and information literacy. VALUE rubrics are being used as part of the process to ascertain where the best opportunities are to measure student achievement within the engineering and technology programs. An assessment framework is presented and successful pilot results are discussed.