Student Outcomes of Engineering & Technology for the 21^st Century

Student Outcomes

The Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at BYU strives to develop men and women of…

…with exceptional blends of technical excellence, leadership, innovation, high moral and ethical standards, and knowledge and experience with peoples and cultures.

Developing these Characteristics

Reaching our objective requires developing the whole individual with the desire and ability to serve mankind. Instruction, activities and experiences go beyond facts and routine solutions to help students develop deep understanding and wisdom in application of what they learn to benefit society.

Advanced learning is built on a solid base of information and knowledge. This is the base camp for the journey to the educational pinnacle of wisdom. Experience and use of knowledge in creative problem solving, application, design, or synthesis develops understanding. The higher educational plateau of understanding includes innovative modeling, designing, developing, and creating useful processes, products, and applications. It is exhibited in an ability to work with diverse peoples and cultures in applying engineering principles and design. The height sought is wisdom, characterized by value-based decisions that are insightful, correct, and beneficial to the human condition, grounded in personal commitment to values, life-long learning, ethics in professional work, and integrity in personal life.

The Educational Levels

Program, curriculum, and course rubrics show the expected outcomes at the educational levels mentioned above. A general rubric characterizing the levels is shown here; specific rubrics for the individual focus areas in Engineering & Technology for the 21^st Century are shown under the individual focus pages:

General Rubric for Outcome Levels

Wisdom	Magnifies understanding to improve society and benefit mankind
Understanding	Uses knowledge and innovation to create and develop new useable processes and products
Knowledge	Comprehends information in a manner that allows the solving of problems
Information	Knows of the existence and of the value of pertinent data

President David O. McKay

"But gaining knowledge is one thing, and applying it, quite another. Wisdom is the right application of knowledge, and true education—the education for which the Church stands—is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and God-like character."

Student Outcomes of Engineering & Technology for the 21st Century