Designing and Teaching a Curricular Unit to Accomplish the Outcomes Related Learning Objectives

Abstract

This paper describes how a curricular unit of Advanced Techniques for Quality was designed in the Quality and Environmental Engineering Master Course to satisfy the outcomes defined in the unit. This paper seeks to (1) explain the steps to take into consideration in the design of a curricular unit, (2) explain the outcomes related learning objectives of the specified curricular unit, (3) identify the instructional techniques that are used in the unit to prepare students to achieve those curricular unit outcomes, as well as the selected assessment methods and (4) describe how an active learning project is used as a teaching learning methodology to help the students to attain the learning outcomes defined in the unit.