Analysis identifies key themes in graduate attributes across Canadian engineering programs, suggesting improvements for HEIs.
The Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) has provided the list of graduate attributes and their definitions to higher education institutions (HEIs); however, it is on HEIs to define their unique indicators. We scanned lists of professional graduate attribute indicators of a selection of the accredited Canadian engineering programs to determine the common themes among those indicators and the frequency of their occurrence. For this paper, we focused on the indicators of the professional graduate attributes such as Communication Skills and Life-long Learning. We identified the themes within these graduate attributes, summarized and categorized them, and identified how frequently they appeared at these universities. This paper can be a benchmark for HEIs to re-evaluate the completeness of their indicators and the coverage of the GAs.
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