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Assessing Multidisciplinary, Long-Term Design Experiences

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Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 5 Design Teams

Page Count

24

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41534

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/41534

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279

Paper Authors

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William Oakes Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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William (Bill) Oakes is a 150th Anniversary Professor, Director of the EPICS Program, Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University, and a registered professional engineer. He is one of the founding faculty in the School of Engineering Education having courtesy appointments in Mechanical, Environmental and Ecological Engineering and Curriculum and Instruction. He was the first engineer to receive the U.S. Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning and a co-recipient of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. He is a fellow of ASEE and NSPE.

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Paul Leidig Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Paul A. Leidig is a PhD candidate in Engineering Education and a member of the instructional team for the Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Bachelors of Science in Architectural Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Masters of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mr. Leidig is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the state of Colorado and has six years of structural engineering consulting experience. He currently consults on learning and talent development programs within the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Mr. Leidig has focused on community-engaged engineering and design for over fifteen years.

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Andrew Pierce Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Abstract

Assessing student learning through design experiences can be challenging and time consuming. . Approaches that that heavily weight project milestones and completion can be effective within a single-term or single-year experience where the design is expected to be completed on a pre-set schedule. These methods do not work as well in more open-ended design experiences where student teams may be at different points in their design at different times within the semester or quarter. Additionally, if design project work spans multiple years, the deliverables that can be assessed vary between teams. This happens frequently within community-engagement design experiences, where designs are developed with partners and the design process involves iterating based on the partner feedback and testing. Such design projects can span multiple academic terms or even years and involve multiple design teams. An assessment method is presented that has been developed for a large design-based community-engagement program, which allows student learning to be evaluated at any stage of the design process and at different academic years and from different majors. The methodology is based on industry models and adapted to the design-based community-engaged learning context. The assessment methods are discussed in this paper along with ways that the program has calibrated between instructional teams across multiple divisions.

Oakes, W., & Leidig, P., & Pierce, A. (2022, August), Assessing Multidisciplinary, Long-Term Design Experiences Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41534

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