Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 22, 2025
June 22, 2025
August 15, 2025
Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)
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https://peer.asee.org/57591
Dr. Ilya Mikhelson is an Associate Professor of Instruction in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University. His technical work focuses on signal processing and embedded systems. Besides teaching, Dr. Mikhelson has worked with dozens of students on independent projects, and has created 3 brand new, projects-heavy courses in Electrical Engineering. He is constantly experimenting with pedagogical innovations, and is very passionate about engineering education.
This work presents a novel assessment modality for an introductory electrical engineering course. The assessment is a deep dive into a topic in the class, which opposes the traditional breadth-based examination. The deep dive is a multi-day, take-home assessment, where students can choose one of several prompts, thus allowing for multiple means of expression as per Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. Furthermore, this method allows students to show comprehension at the highest levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, by creating and analyzing in a minimally-constrained setting, both in time and direction. To assess the efficacy of the proposed assessment modality, the author examines the tool's fairness and its ability to test knowledge. The findings demonstrate that this is a viable tool for assessment.
Mikhelson, I. (2025, June), Alternative Assessment in ECE - Diving Deep into Course Topics Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada . https://peer.asee.org/57591
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