Classroom Learning Activities to Support Capstone Project Assessment Instruments

The capstone design course is the ideal location for assessing student professional skills and teamwork for ABET and other learning outcomes. For this reason, the Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) created a comprehensive set of assessment instruments and a supporting web-based deployment system. To compliment these assessments, the TIDEE group developed a set of classroom learning activities that accompany the assessment instruments. The learning activities are to be used by instructors and students to prepare for assessment activities and supplement learning in lecture environments. The learning activities (known as a module) are typically composed of an in-class guide for instructors, in-class and pre-class activities for students, and the post-class assessment activity. The complete sets of assessment activities and modules are available online. Instructors using a subset of the modules indicated that the modules are generally beneficial for students and instructors assessing professional skills and teamwork in the capstone course.