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Aligning Engineering Design Education with Accreditation Requirements

Aligning Engineering Design Education with Accreditation Requirements
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Author(s): Sivachandran Chandrasekaran (School of Engineering, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia), Aman Maung Than Oo (School of Engineering, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia), Guy Littlefair (School of Engineering, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia)and Alex Stojcevski (School of Engineering, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia)
Copyright: 2014
Volume: 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 12
Source title: International Journal of Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education (IJQAETE)
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Arun Patil (Amity University Rajasthan, India)
DOI: 10.4018/ijqaete.2014070105

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Abstract

This paper focuses on aligning engineering design with accreditation requirements in engineering education. To be an accredited curriculum, education programs must incorporate graduate attributes required by program accrediting professional bodies. Graduate attributes are the required benchmarks for students to attain their specific qualities and abilities within a higher education institute. Most higher education institutions identify a list of expected graduate attributes or outcomes that are incorporated in their educational programs to be accredited by an accrediting professional body such as Engineers Australia (EA), Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) in the United States, and the European Accreditation of Engineering Programs (EUR-ACE) in Europe. This paper evaluates the program educational objectives, student outcomes, assessment methods and evaluation of different undergraduate engineering programs. It assesses how engineering design is practiced and incorporated as an important element of the graduate attributes through project oriented design based learning curriculum aligned with professional accreditation requirements.

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