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Building Soft Skills Into A Cgt Program: Planning For Accreditation And Job Success

Conference Session
Curriculum Development and Applications
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jana Whittington, Purdue University-Calumet; Kim Nankivell, Purdue University-Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University-Calumet; James Higley, Purdue University-Calumet
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Design Graphics
2006-1724: BUILDING SOFT SKILLS INTO A CGT PROGRAM: PLANNING FORACCREDITATION AND JOB SUCCESSJana Whittington, Purdue University-CalumetKim Nankivell, Purdue University-CalumetJoy Colwell, Purdue University-CalumetJames Higley, Purdue University-Calumet Page 11.298.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006Building Soft Skills into a CGT Program: Planning for Accreditation and Job SuccessAbstractPurdue University Calumet has long supported engineering technology, with some programsfinding their roots in World War II industrial training programs. Only recently, however, has theuniversity added a program in Computer Graphics
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Issues In Teaching And Assessment Of Courses In Rapidly Changing Areas

Conference Session
Teaching Strategies in Graphics
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jana Whittington, Purdue University-Calumet; Kim Nankivell, Purdue University-Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University-Calumet; James Higley, Purdue University-Calumet
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Design Graphics
University Calumet, we useassessment measures which include faculty evaluation, class critiques and written peerevaluations that individually addresses each level of technical, aesthetic and creative aspects ofeach project or assignment. Discussions or critiques first address the success of technical aspects,then move to the aesthetic aspects, and then the overall creative attributes of the students’ work.This type of evaluation is not only valuable for the students to comprehend each level and puttheir soft skills to work, but also provides valuable assessment feedback to the faculty.The CGT program is relatively new, having been started in the year 2000 with 18 students, andhaving grown to its present size of about 200 majors. The program has
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