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Course materials provide students learning experiences that will enable them to acquire specific knowledge and skills for design-related educational outcomes, including:

Instructional activities can produce design knowledge, design process skills, or design products. In an engineering design curriculum, instructional activities should begin with an emphasis on design knowledge and design process, and then shift toward design products near the end of the program. Through active engagement in learning, students acquire higher-order thinking skills needed in all of engineering design.

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Assessments

Assessment is an important contributor in improving engineering design education. The TIDEE consortium of institutions has produced two instruments to help faculty gauge student progress.

Assessment of student learning has been based on making clear distinctions among types of learning outcomes. Three types identified include individual knowledge, process skills, and products of the exercise. Each of these outcome types requires an appropriate activity to test it and the corresponding evidence to document achievement.

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