Assessment Tools and Rubrics for Evaluating the Capstone Projects in Outcome Based Education

Identification and evaluation of Capstone project (final year project) plays a crucial role in the quality system of any technical institution which practices Outcome Based Education (OBE). The capstone projectsenable the students to challenge the conventional concepts and use the engineering knowledge to develop prototypes or to develop working modules for industries. In any case, the student is expected to identify the problem, formulate the objectives, perform an exhaustive literature survey, develop a benchmark model/simulate the existing work, develop the proposed modules/simulate the proposed work, evaluate the performance of the proposed work, document the work, present the work before a panel and explore the feasibility of converting the work as a technical paper or patent. The most challenging aspect is to formulate an assessment methodology for evaluating the extent to which the project has groomed the student in terms of Program Outcomes (POs). This paper discusses the assessment methodology and rubrics followed by Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology to assess the student's performance in capstone projects.