Development of eFYP to enhance quality management system for final year project assessment in engineering programme

Abstract

The Final Year Project (FYP) is one of the required capstone courses which has to achieve several program outcomes (POs) per the requirement of the Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) and industries’ needs. The POs demonstrate technical/cognitive knowledge, psychomotor skills and affective abilities in students upon completing the course. In addressing the POs that are assessed through different sets of assessment in evaluating students’ performance, a systematic mechanism in tracking performance outcomes is needed. This will ensure Continual Quality Improvement (CQI) and enhance the programme's quality management system (QMS). Therefore, “eFYP” was developed as a data management tool to analyse the students’ performance from all evaluators against different assessment rubric sets and comply with the university's evaluation system. Excel templates that have been programed with visual basic language has developed that can integrate between DataCollector and DataAnalyser system. The eFYP has a unique capability to manage extensive data in a short duration with low storage requirement and high accuracy with security feature. Thus, it has a great potential to be utilised as a data compiling tool in any program. In addition, the eFYP will ensure the students’ results can be retrieved in without an error, fast and easy.