Understanding CEAB's Graduate Attributes Criterion As A Department: The University Of Manitoba Biosystems' Experience
With the approach of the accreditation visit by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, it falls to the faculties and departments to interpret, understand and transition into use the latest accreditation criterion on graduate attributes. Over the past two years Biosystems has utilized our small size to perform several preparatory exercises to understand graduate attributes and how they relate to classes offered by our department. This has included several iterations of assessing the level of competency expected from students, an explanation of how attributes are developed by each course, development of learning outcomes, an integration of these ideas into course outlines and a preliminary investigation into how to report these items in a summative and informative manner. This work presents the process followed, observations on how it could be shortened and a brief discussion of the difficulties aligning course-based assessments to curriculum wide needs.