Innovative Engineering Technology Projects: Their Uses As Recruitment, Formative/Summative Evaluation and Outcome Assessment Tools

摘要

The assessment of student learning and of educational outcome is as old as education itself. However, Society's quest for Quality issues, especially in manufactured products took international and global center stage around the 1950, when Edward Deming's lecture to the Japanese help revolutionize the Japanese manufacturing industry and turned that Country's economy to the most competitive in the World. Suddenly "made in Japan" became equated with high quality. The results an overwhelming demand for made in Japan's automobile, television, VCR and the list goes on. By the late 1970s and early 1980s, U.S. managers were making frequent trips to Japan to learn about the Japanese miracle and how to use the successful Statistical Process Control which had proven successful in Japan to turn around the sagging demand for domestically made products.