Assessments of final year diploma electrical engineering project 2

Abstract

The assessment of the Final Year Project 2 (FYP2) is very subjective if no proper guidelines are given especially if the marks are evaluated by more than a person. A fair assessment of FYP2 is therefore crucial to be considered and this paper presented a precise of assessments from supervisor and panel for implementation of a new code EEE368 for Diploma Electrical Engineering Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). The major shortcoming of the former code, KEU380 is that the marks for the final project or prototype were not fairly allocated. Only 10% is allocated for supervisor's evaluation and the students' efforts in accomplishing the final product were not measured. Even though the project is assigned in groups, teamwork was not assessed. Allocation of marks for EEE368 is based on the confidential syllabus from Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FKE) UiTM which are 40% from panel and 60% from supervisor. Hence, the FYP2 committees distributed the marks for a new syllabus as following criteria; for panel evaluations: Presentation Skills and Project Demonstration are 15% and 25% respectively, and for supervisor evaluations: 30% for Writing Skills and 10% for each criteria of Progress Work (Logbooks and meeting with supervisor), Teamwork and Project Demonstration. The benchmark for marks is categorized to poor, moderate, good and excellent and the details are discussed in this paper.