Inter American University of Puerto Rico
Bayamón Campus
An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and
welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
PERFORMANCE INDICATOR
Delineate the scope of the
2.1 problem considering meeting
specified needs.
Apply a methodology to
2.2 appropriately accomplish the
engineering design
School of Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
RUBRIC FOR STUDENT OUTCOME (2)
4 3 2 1
Exemplary Proficient Developing Beginning
• Student clearly identifies the
• Many major objectives • No mention is made of
project objectives based on
• Student has minor are not identified or the problem to be
general description and client
difficulties to identify the contain solved.
requirements.
project objectives. technical/conceptual • Students are unable to
• Identifies relevant and valid
• Adequately identifies errors. identify, access and/or
information to support
relevant and valid • Insufficient information is present pertaining
decision-making.
information to support obtained and/or sources information.
• Clearly consider public
the decision-making. lack validity. • No considerations are
health, safety, and welfare,
• Most relevant • Major applicable identified, or some
as well as global, cultural,
considerations are considerations are not considerations are
social, environmental, and
correctly identified. presented, irrelevant, or identified but
economic factors for the
conceptually incorrect. completely erroneous
engineering design.
• Student successfully
integrates prior knowledge of
• Prior knowledge is either
mathematics, science, and
incomplete or contains • Prior knowledge is • Knowledge integration
engineering principles as well
some conceptual errors. limited, confusing or is absent or completely
as discipline related courses
and collected information to • Appropriate analyses conceptually incorrect. erroneous.
are selected but • Inappropriate analyses • Unable to identify an
address the problem.
analyses include some and/or major conceptual appropriate alternative
• Several alternative solutions
minor procedural errors. errors are made. or alternative is
are considered appropriately
• An attempt is made to • Design strategy is conceptually
and correctly analyzed for
develop a workable inefficient, and the work erroneous.
technical feasibility.
design strategy, but it is plan does not ensure the • No design strategy is
• An effective design strategy
incomplete or unclear. project achievement. presented; a
is developed.
• Calculations are • Calculations are disorganized approach
• Appropriate engineering
conceptually correct, but conceptually correct, but seems to be followed.
resources and computer tools
their accuracy is limited they may be partially • Calculations contain
are efficiently used to carry
by simplifying incomplete or containing major numerical or
on accurate design
assumptions, inaccurate numerical errors. conceptual errors.
calculations of the initial
modeling.
configuration.
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PERFORMANCE INDICATOR
Exemplary
• Performance of the final
design compares favorably to
customer requirements,
design criteria, operational
constraints, and existing
Evaluate the performance of
2.3 products if any.
the final design
• Project related
environmental, social, health
and safety issues as well as
anticipated hazards are
deeply evaluated.
2 1
Proficient Developing Beginning
• Performance of the final • Performance of the final
design fails to satisfy design fails to satisfy
some requirements, but some requirements.
deviations are analyzed, Deviations are analyzed
and improvements are but no improvements are
• Final design is not
proposed. proposed.
evaluated.
• Project related
• No impact statement is
environmental, social, • An attempt is made to
present.
health and safety issues evaluate the impact of
as well as anticipated the project, but it is
hazards are evaluated incomplete, superficial,
with minor errors and or containing major
omissions. conceptual errors.