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Making a Partnership Work: Outcomes Assessment of the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership
Author(s) -
Ramírez Lueny Morell de,
Lamancusa John S.,
ZayasCastro José L.,
Jorgensen Jens E.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.1998.tb00388.x
Subject(s) - general partnership , deliverable , summative assessment , engineering management , engineering , curriculum , work (physics) , principal (computer security) , plan (archaeology) , product (mathematics) , factory (object oriented programming) , task (project management) , engineering ethics , management , systems engineering , pedagogy , political science , sociology , computer science , formative assessment , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , law , economics , history , programming language , operating system
This paper describes the summative assessment strategy of the Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership (MEEP). Since 1994, three universities, Penn State, University of Washington and University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories, have been working together to develop a new, practice‐based curriculum and physical facilities for product realization and manufacturing. The overall outcome is the development at each participating institution of what we call The Learning Factory. In addition to reviewing the project's four major tasks and deliverables, we present the assessment plan, its principal elements, and the tools used for qualitative evaluation. Finally, the paper highlights some of the assessment results and reviews some of the elements that made this partnership a success. The assessment strategy presented in this paper could be used as a model for similar multi‐institutional, multi‐task projects.