Conference Session

"Best" of BED

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony J McGoron, Florida International University; Hamid Shahrestani, Florida International University, BME; Michael Edward Brown, Florida International University; James Dennis Byrne, Florida International University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

typicallydone at the end of the semester (term). The Capstone Design experience can be a convenientopportunity to teach Professional Skills (sometimes referred to as the “soft skills”)23 that may notmake it into more traditional lecture courses. Engineering design is where these professionalskills are most important. These have often been difficult skills to assess. There may be as manyways to offer the capstone design experience as there are engineering programs. To give newprograms ideas, groups have reported on the specific elements of their own capstone designcourses10, 14, 22.Assessment tools for evaluating program learning outcomes are freely available9, 13, 28 and we inthe BME program at FIU have developed our own process and tools for the