Investigating canadian engineering students’ perceptions of graduate attributes: Frequency, criticality, and relative importance

Rodrigues, Renato B., Cicek, Jilian Seniuk, Jamieson, Marnie et Doré, Sylvie. 2024. « Investigating canadian engineering students’ perceptions of graduate attributes: Frequency, criticality, and relative importance ». International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy, vol. 14, nº 2. pp. 44-64.

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This study investigates the perceptions of Canadian engineering students regarding the fre-quency and criticality of the 12 graduate attributes (knowledge, skills, values, and behav-iors that engineering students are expected to demonstrate upon graduation) outlined by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB). This study aims to assist engineering edu-cators in gaining a better understanding of students’ expectations regarding how engineering competencies will be demonstrated in practice. This information can guide the improvement of engineering curricula and help engineering programs meet accreditation requirements for continuous enhancement. Descriptive and test statistics were used to analyze a quanti-tative survey administered to 340 undergraduate engineering students at a large Canadian university. Findings suggest that the students perceived the frequency and criticality of most graduate attributes differently. Individual and teamwork, communication, professionalism, lifelong learning and engineering tools, were viewed as more frequent than critical, while ethics and equity, impact of engineering, investigation, and design were perceived as more critical than frequent. The study also found that communication, individual and teamwork, and problem analysis were perceived as the graduate attributes with the highest relative importance (frequency multiplied by criticality), which is consistent with the literature

Type de document:	Article publié dans une revue, révisé par les pairs
Professeur:	Professeur Doré, Sylvie
Affiliation:	Génie mécanique
Date de dépôt:	10 avr. 2024 14:10
Dernière modification:	18 avr. 2024 19:02
URI:	https://espace2.etsmtl.ca/id/eprint/28520

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