A procedural approach to assessing undergraduate students' project

Abstract

A systematic procedure for evaluating undergraduate students' project is presented. A mechatronics project is a synergistic fusion of various disciplines to design and develop a system and a set of specific requirements have to be established for each project component and the students' achievements are evaluated against these requirements. The project is assessed and evaluated in an industry-like scenario. During the project span of 12 weeks, the third-year Mechatronics students are assessed for the following skills: proposal writing, project management, technical document writing, presentation, group management, risk assessment and use of Gantt chart to track the project. The proposed procedure was tested on two batches of student cohorts and to two competitive projects, and found successful.