Innovation in Engineering Education: A Proposed ABET Course Outcomes Assessment Portfolio | |
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( Volume 3 Issue 7,July 2017 ) OPEN ACCESS | |
Author(s): | |
Taan ElAli | |
Abstract: | |
Among the main eight (8) Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) criteria, namely, Students, Program Educational Objectives, Student Outcomes, Curriculum, Faculty, Facilities, Continuous Improvement, and Institutional Support, that ABET requires engineering programs to address, Student Outcomes process is the most difficult to showcase in the self-study report programs need to present to ABET evaluators. It is interesting to notice that ABET does not require engineering programs to address Course Outcomes directly, although, Course Outcomes is strongly connected to Student Outcomes. Looking carefully at all these eight criteria, we can see that Course Outcomes is sitting at the bottom of the pyramid and is the strong driving force for the continuous improvement of all ABET mentioned criteria. Engineering programs address Student Outcomes in the self-study report through a complex relationship with Course Outcomes. In this paper, we propose a new detailed process for the assessment of the Course Outcomes directly and show how this process can lead smoothly to addressing Student Outcomes (SO’s), Program Educational Objectives (PEO’s) and the mission of the institution. This will be done through the Course Outcomes Portfolio (COP) process. |
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