An adaptive senior design course with an emphasis on undergraduate course curriculum

Abstract

The senior design course is a typical indicator of the success and productivity of the undergraduate course curriculum. Senior design course bridges the gap between the theoretical and practical domain along with providing hands on experience. Hence, it is crucial to have a concrete and highly productive course structure. This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the outcomes i) to determine the merit of the curriculum and ii) to offer a crucial assessment of student competencies. Accordingly, this paper discusses a framework of the senior design course at the University of South Florida and the iterative work it underwent over the span of three semesters resulting in a significant improvement in the students' performance. This study focuses on a database of the undergraduate students from the last three semesters and underlines the facilitation of assessing an undergraduate course curriculum through a senior design project.