Open AccessThree Birds, One Stone: A Pedagogy and Accreditation Driven Redesign
Author(s) -
Bryson Robertson,
Margaret Gwyn,
LillAnne Jackson,
Peter Wild
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
proceedings of the ... ceea conference
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-5243
DOI - 10.24908/pceea.v0i0.13055
Subject(s) - accreditation , grading (engineering) , curriculum , laddering , teamwork , equity (law) , engineering ethics , work (physics) , engineering management , engineering , medical education , pedagogy , psychology , political science , business , medicine , mechanical engineering , civil engineering , finance , law
This paper describes a proposed redesign of the instruction and assessment of the Co-operative (Co-op) Education (or work term) components of the University of Victoria Engineering program. The redesign ensures instruction and assessment of the higher-level Graduate Attributes (GAs), such as individual and teamwork, communication skills, professionalism, impact on society, ethics and equity, economics and project management, and life-long learning, that may not be included in all of the technical courses in a traditional Engineering curriculum. Concurrently, the redesign includes a renewed emphasis on improving the technical writing competency of graduating engineers by: ‘laddering’ student technical writing development; introduction a new grading scheme; increased timeframes for report revisions; and, finally, reducing the number of pedagogically ineffective reports required to graduate.