Development of teaching strategies and assessment methods for course "Mechanisms" based on students' outcomes

The introduction of accrediting programs in colleges is now the main topic of the engineering education reform in Taiwan. This paper presents therefore our current research results on curriculum planning and evaluation of the mechanical engineering course based on the learning outcomes proposed in ABET EC-2000, with example of the course "Mechanisms". With aid of attributes from the framework developed by Besterfield-Sacre et al. we developed the outcomes and the corresponding teaching strategies. For assessment of learning, we devised also a questionnaire for further evaluation. The new results of evaluation and assessment in the current semester will be presented and discussed in this paper. The significance of the study is to give an example for engineering educators in Taiwan, how to apply ABET-EC 2000 to curriculum planning and evaluation of the mechanical engineering courses.