The Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) project focuses on developing and assessing students' capabilities in engineering design. The end goal is to produce qualified and successful engineers for future generations.
Measuring Added-Value Using a Team Design Skills Growth Survey
Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition
Assessing student learning in design courses is essential for giving them
feedback on their integration of a wide range of knowledge and skills.
The Team Design Skills Growth Survey, is easy to administer
and interpret in discerning design capabilities of students in introductory
engineering design classes.
This tool measures student perceptions about their professional growth and correlates these with perceived course emphasis on learning outcomes for design skills, teamwork skills, and communication skills
DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF AN ENGINEER PROFILE
Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition
Engineering educators, students, and practitioners possess “understandings”
of what constitutes quality performance by the engineering professional.
Misguided or mismatched understandings can lead to inappropriate career decisions, ineffective curriculum, and poor performance evaluations.
This paper describes a process and defines the profile of an engineer performing well in professional practice. Developed with input from both academic and non-academic engineers, the profile presents technical, interpersonal, and professional skills or behaviors that align with key roles performed by the engineer. The profile is a valuable resource for educators and for students aspiring to become high performing professionals in the field of engineering.
