Conference Session

Design and Assessment of Graduate Curriculum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Alavizadeh, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

be around developing a mock project proposal thatwould follow the guidelines of the real directed MS project proposal as were described in thegraduate program handbook in terms of sections, length, citation (IEEE), and format. At the endof the semester, each student would present his/her proposal to the fellow graduate students whowould act as the members of the examining committee. The author would compile theirfeedback, as well as his own observation, and share it with the presenter. A sample of proposalevaluation form is shown in Appendix A.The course contents and activities were designed to help students develop their proposal. Thesemester was divided into three sections, called units: 1) Introduction to research, ethics, humansubject