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Integrated Design Engineering Assessment and Learning System (IDEALS)

In a complex, shrinking world, addressing critical societal needs requires innovative professional and technical competence. IDEALS assessments and instructional materials facilitate the learning and assessment of both professional skills and design practices. In the context of team-based design projects, IDEALS helps students to think critically, draw from previous knowledge, explore new ideas, and learn from challenges - all vital skills for professional and personal advancement.

IDEALS provides web-based formative and summative assessments for engineering design courses and projects. Formative assessments display student understanding and enable instructor feedback on learning and performance. Summative assessments elicit high-performance responses that instructors score - useful for evaluating student performance or program achievements.

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Washington State University

University of Idaho

Seattle University

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tuskegee University

Smith College

 

LeTourneau University

 


IDEALS Tools Development

IDEALS tools (assessments and instructional materials) have been created and tested by a diverse team of engineering design and assessment experts for utilization in either disciplinary or multidisciplinary design project contexts. more...

IDEALS tools address learning outcomes derived from the profile of successful engineers, based on input from 100 engineering professionals and engineering design faculty members. Sixteen separate assessments have been created. Some have been implemented with hundreds of students in engineering, business, and other disciplines at over a dozen institutions. Assessments and instructional materials are organized into modules that are available online to approved design instructors.

IDEALS Online Assessments

IDEALS assessments are available online for areas that include: teamwork, professional development (lifelong learning), professional responsibility (and ethics), design processes, and solution assets (stages of design solutions). more...

For each area, one or more formative assessments provide questions that probe students' (individuals' or teams') understanding, facilitate discussion, aid in developing a framework for learning, and challenge learning and progress. Instructor feedback (and occasionally, peer feedback) provides personalized review of progress and comments to guide future performance. A summative assessment is available for each performance area to test students' understandings and give evidence of performances at critical project milestones. Student responses are scored online by the instructor.

IDEALS Instructional Materials

IDEALS instructional materials support professional areas that include: teamwork, professional development (lifelong learning), and professional responsibility (and ethics). more...

An instructor's guide gives background for the topic, offers suggested pre-class and in-class assignments, provides suggestions for facilitation of the materials, refers to readings or worksheets needed for the assignments, and explains use of the corresponding assessment. Instructor guides and associated resources are organized with corresponding assessments into an IDEALS module. Each file of a module is available for download by approved instructors.