2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

A Pathway to Create and Validate an Engineering Design Rubric across All Engineering Programs

Presented at Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Assessment of Design Projects and Approaches to Capstone Courses

Although in many engineering schools, cornerstone and capstone projects are significant design opportunities for engineering students in the first year and senior year, respectively, however, there is a need to scaffold student’s design knowledge throughout an entire four-year curriculum. In engineering education, there is a need to design a comprehensive rubric that can be used consistently throughout the curriculum for assessing and scaffolding students’ design knowledge. In this work-in-progress paper, the goal is to propose a comprehensive rubric for assessing design knowledge that uses the newest ABET definition of design, proposes a common design language and general assessment criteria for engineering instructors, evaluates design knowledge at individual levels, covers different design steps, and assists students in developing their design skills throughout the curriculum. For this purpose, we are using engineering education literature and the ABET design definition to propose a rubric that measure student’s design knowledge longitudinally and tie them to the levels of Bloom’s taxonomy.

Authors

Dr. Behzad Beigpourian University of Tehran [biography]

Behzad Beigpourian is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at the University of Tehran. Dr. Beigpourian worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Craig M. Berge Engineering Design Program at the University of Arizona to study students’ design activities across the College of Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University and has a master’s and bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering. Dr. Beigpourian has been engineering educator since 2008, and curently works in the College of Engineering and Engineering Education department at the University of Tehran.
Hannah Budinoff http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5556-4389 The University of Arizona [biography]

Hannah Budinoff is an Assistant Professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include additive manufacturing, geometric manufacturability analysis, design for manufacturing, and engineering education.
Philipp Gutruf The University of Arizona
Dr. K. "Larry" Larry Head http://orcid.org/https://0000-0001-6424-263X The University of Arizona

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