Two Instruments For Assessing Design Outcomes Of Capstone Projects
Vikas Jain, Durward K. Sobek
Abstract
A "good" design process is perhaps best defined by its output-good design processes produce good design outcomes. As part of an NSF-funded research effort to better understand student design processes, we developed two assessment instruments to measure the "goodness" of a design outcome. This paper describes the development and validation of the two instruments, presents the instruments and their implementation, and reports validation statistics on the initial data collected.
Topics & Concepts
CapstoneSession (web analytics)Engineering design processProcess (computing)Computer scienceQuality (philosophy)Design processEngineering managementCapstone courseSoftware engineeringSystems engineeringManagement scienceEngineeringWork in processOperations managementWorld Wide WebMechanical engineeringAlgorithmOperating systemPhilosophyEpistemologyEngineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentEngineering Education and PedagogyDesign Education and Practice