Managing and Assessing Senior Project Capstone Design by Implementing ABET Criteria

Prior studies on educational engineering has shown that the graduates from engineering colleges were lack of practical skills which are not given enough attention in the existing curriculum of engineering.From this study, it has been shown that Senior Project Capstone Design can train students with practical skills and prepare them to real engineering life, if it is well managed by the department and assessed through ABET criteria.Engineering Graduate Students suffer from lack of practical experience.In this study, practical experience of the students is enhanced through Project based learning in Capstone Design Project.It is expected that by the end of this study a well-structured design course that can prepare student well for the real engineering environment will be developed.Six factors that affects the design courses are explained.Then, a detailed procedure that contains a work plan (described with the flow chart) and assigning the responsibility of each contributor to the implemented process are fully described.An example of assessments results is given and effect of the current model on the performance of the student for several years are given.Overall, Faculty members and students responded well for the new organized work.Almost three papers out of six projects are published.