Piloting Accessible Engineering Education Online

Making engineering education accessible to those without the ideal background has long been a challenge. Faculty are looking to admit students with demonstrated academic competence in order to set them up for success. How can we help potential students prove and/or gain competence in order to have the opportunity to access a high-quality engineering education? This session will walk through an experiment with a competency-based pilot that allows students to demonstrate competence to fill in gaps in their background. It will provide background on the evolution of this approach from a focus on ‘gap’ undergraduate courses to a modular, competency-based pilot.