Capstone Design Grading On Time And On Target (original) (raw)

ABET criteria, emergency response and prevention, and an ever increasing demand for impacting the production schedule is accelerating the need for engineers to become broad-based leaders instead of just highly trained technicians. In order to prepare engineering students for such an environment, design courses are more routinely requiring students to complete openended, real-life design problems. Such problems require a different grading process than those that have an easily defined solution. This paper explains how, through the use of a blended criteria and norm based assessment and evaluation process, to clearly communicate standards and outcomes, fairly grade dissimilar designs, and effectively encourage continuous improvement of design products. Evidence of these outcomes will be assessed through the statistical analysis of student feedback from the United States Military Academy.