A Proposed Procedure to Assess Students Learning Based on Criterion 3 of EC 2000

A systematic procedure for the assessment of EC criterion 3 is proposed. The procedure is based on relating the technical requirements of criterion 3 to the knowledge and skills acquired by each student. A Top-down analysis is required to transform the qualitative technical requirements of criterion 3 to a set of quantitative measures of skills and knowledge. This set can be measured through different methods of evaluation. The results of evaluation are used to go up using bottom-up approach to see if the final goals are achieved or not. Comparison with the desired outcome of the engineering education will be used to evaluate the success of each student to achieve the goals of engineering education. The new procedure should produce an education profile which will augment the A, B, C, D and F grades or GPA of each student. A student’s education profile will consist of three files that describe the technical requirements of criterion 3. The first file covers mathematics, physics and basic science part of the education profile, the second file covers the basic engineering part of education, and the third file covers the gained knowledge and skills of the students’ engineering field of specialty. Each file gives the required skills and knowledge of the student, and the percentage of skills and knowledge each student achieved during college. The paper discusses the top-down and bottom up concepts, and explains the details utilizing functional block diagram representation of the engineering education system. Non-technical and humanities aspects of criterion 3 should be included in a fourth file and will not be discussed in this paper.