Sustainable Engineering Cognitive Outcomes: Examining Different Approaches for Curriculum Integration

Ketchman, Kevin J.; Dancz, Claire L. A.; Burke, Rebekah; Parrish, Kristen; Landis, Amy E.; Bilec, Melissa M.

doi:10.1061/(asce)ei.1943-5541.0000324

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“…Course and Student Management System (CSMS) [9] is a Web-based system based on the concept of an articulation matrix that maps various course outcomes to ABET program outcomes [6]. The articulation matrix is nothing but the course assessment matrix.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Program Outcome Assessment (POA) [3][11] is a webbased program developed using ASP.Net technologies to automate the program assessment. It supports a complete flow from defining the program outcomes [6] to entering all course information in real-time. The program computes on-the-fly performs all the evaluations and presents the output in the form of graphs, color-coded tables, and a year, year to year comparison of various program outcomes for a span of five years.…”

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System Design and Case Study Reporting on AQASYS: A Web-based Academic Quality Assurance System

Alfozan¹,

Kadampur²

2021

IJACSA

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The demands of modern education have evolved from a teacher-centric requirement to a learnercentric requirement. Knowledge, skill, and competence are the most sought-after attributes of a graduate. Features such as the objective focus of learning, curriculum planning, a set of high expectations, and extended opportunities to the learner after completion of education are at the center of all the planning. It is all about skilloriented, outcome-based standardization that has been infused by the societal stakeholders into the modern global education system to create a work-ready human capital. In this paper, a software product for academic quality assurance is presented. The software provides a generic framework to any educational institution that operates to implement known international standards of education. The software accepts the data and computes the quality parameters as per the selected standards. It has an analytical module that provides summary analytics and generates the course reports in the given format automatically. The software is tested with a case study and results are presented. The paper also presents the system design approach with discussion on the technologies selected for the development.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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System Design and Case Study Reporting on AQASYS: A Web-based Academic Quality Assurance System

Alfozan¹,

Kadampur²

2021

IJACSA

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“…Chan et al (2017) designed the generic skills perception questionnaires for investigating engineering students' perceptions of their level of competency in these skills. The main issue for engineering education was the ability to view actions, problems, solutions and consequences in a broader context comprising scientific, technical, economic, legal, social or cultural aspects, and the sustainability in engineering education was stressed and integrated into engineering curricula intended to prepare students for global challenges facing today's engineers (Staniskis and Katiliute, 2016;Holgaard et al, 2016;Ketchman et al, 2017). Bradley (2016) reflected the information use skills in Information modeling and system realization engineering program accreditation standards of four countries: Canada, the USA, the United Kingdom and Australia.…”

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Information modeling and system realization for supporting engineering education accreditation process based on polychromatic graph

Wang

Gao

2021

AJIM

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PurposeThe engineering education accreditation (EEA) is a principal quality assurance mechanism. However, at many education institutions, the most labor-intensive work of EEA process is accomplished manually. Without the support of computer and information technology, the EEA process leads to high labor intensity, low work efficiency and poor management level. The purpose of this paper is to build a complex network model and realize an information management system of talent training program for supporting the EEA process.Design/methodology/approachBased on polychromatic graph (PG), this paper builds a network model of talent training program for engineering specialty. The related information and data are organized and processed in this network model. From the bidirections of top-down and bottom-up, the user requirements are retrieved automatically in logic layer. Together with the specialty of mechanical engineering, the proposed PG-based network modeling method is applied and the corresponding information management system is realized.FindingsThe study results show that the PG-based network modeling method takes full advantages of the strong simulation ability of PG to model the complex network system and has some unique merits in formal expression of problem, efficient processing of information and lightweight realization of system. Further, the information management system of talent training program can reduce the tedious human labor and improve the management level of EEA process dramatically.Originality/valueThis paper proposes a PG-based network modeling method, in which the nodes and the edges can be painted by some unified colors to describe the different kinds of activities and the various types of interactions. Theoretically, this modeling method does not distinguish the activities, the interactions and their properties in graphic symbol and the problem size is diminished about a half. Furthermore, this paper provides an effective experience and idea to the education institutions for implementing the engineering education accreditation, increasing the education management efficiency and promoting the talent training quality.

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“…And there is always pressure to incorporate newer disciplines in the study plan to meet the challenges of work places such as process safety in chemical engineering [38]. Therefore relatively recent theories can be incorporated in the curriculum either in module-based approach (integrating in multiple courses in an interdisciplinary way), stand-alone approach or senior design (capstone project) [34,39]. Prior to senior year, projects may also be added to link the knowledge with practice [40] through structured and guided design experiences [41,42].…”

Section: Curriculum Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further key performance indicators (KPIs) are defined against each SO. To measure these KPIs, rubrics as mentioned in the literature [ 34 ], are designed.…”

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Implementing Fuzzy AHP and FUCOM to evaluate critical success factors for sustained academic quality assurance and ABET accreditation

Ahmad¹,

Qahmash²

2020

PLoS ONE

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The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredits the tertiary education programs in the areas of applied and natural science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology. ABET offers accreditation in the United States and other regions in the world that lack such entities such as Gulf Cooperative Counties (GCC). Though ABET accreditation is voluntary, graduates of the ABET-accredited programs are considered equivalent in knowledge, behaviors, and attitude with global standards. The process of ABET accreditation takes months or years depending upon the gap with readiness and resources. The objective of this study is to compile and prioritize the list of critical success factors (CSFs) to commit resources optimally for sustained academic quality assurance and ABET accreditation. The triangulation research designed has been employed. Firstly, the observation of the ABET accreditation process of multiple programs at King Khalid University (KKU) helped in identifying 11 CSFs in three categories namely Program design and execution, Quality culture and excellence, and Institutional infrastructure and support. Further, these CSFs have been explored in the literature in the area of ABET accreditation. Finally, the research employs a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (Fuzzy AHP) and full consistency method (FUCOM) to rank the relative importance of these CSFs and their dimensions for sustained academic quality assurance and ABET accreditation. The incorporation of these CSFs will help institutions in the GCC and other regions to get their academic programs ABET-accredited in an optimal manner.

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Sustainable Engineering Cognitive Outcomes: Examining Different Approaches for Curriculum Integration

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

System Design and Case Study Reporting on AQASYS: A Web-based Academic Quality Assurance System

System Design and Case Study Reporting on AQASYS: A Web-based Academic Quality Assurance System

Information modeling and system realization for supporting engineering education accreditation process based on polychromatic graph

Implementing Fuzzy AHP and FUCOM to evaluate critical success factors for sustained academic quality assurance and ABET accreditation

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