Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Efra Altamirano, Universidad de las Américas Puebla; Judith Virginia Gutierrez Cuba; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

deAcreditación de la Enseñanza de la Ingeniería (CACEI), which is the Mexican peer-accreditingagency of the US ABET. Graduates of UDLAP’s FE program shall attain thirteen outcomes;eleven of them are similar to ABET Criterion 3 program outcomes1; as well as specific IFT corecompetencies regarding major areas: food chemistry and analysis; food safety and microbiology;food processing and engineering; applied food science; and success skills2. As part of assessmentefforts, the Food Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (FEUCC) designed astrategy that uses both direct and indirect assessment measures that is reported elsewhere3, 4.During this past year the FEUCC has been delineating a new assessment plan for 2015-2020 inorder to be ready to apply

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Rodriguez P.E., Western Michigan University; Alamgir A. Choudhury, Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

is acomponent where soft skills were developed12. The project was an open-ended problem whereteam members had to think about safety and functionality, and at the same time team membersdeveloped and applied skills on teamwork, project planning, economics, and communication7.The key difference was the domain where the students had to develop their project, the projectwas not a typical application of what they have learned in their coursework, but at the same timethis project presented the opportunity to illustrate a common situation that students will be facedonce they apply (and get) a technical job. It brings to light one of the message that are usuallyoffered in design courses where open-ended and different application domains are