Attainment of Higher Level of Blooms Taxonomy through Open Ended Activity in Metrology & Quality Engineering Lab

Abstract

Blooms Taxonomy is a framework for classifying statements of what faculty expect or intend students to learn as a result of instruction. Bloom's Taxonomy provides an important framework for faculty to focus on higher order thinking, by providing a hierarchy of levels, this taxonomy can assist faculty in designing performance tasks, crafting questions for conferring with students, and providing feedback on student work. Achieving higher order of learning in some courses is challenging task for a faculty so an effort is made in this course to how a remembering level concept can be taken to analyzing level through an open ended activity.

In a process manufacturing the variation occurs because of part to part variation and measurement variation in turn the measurement variation is due to operator involving in measurement (Reproducibility) or the variation due to the gage(Repeatability) and it is popularly known as Gage R&R so this concept, students study in the metrology and quality engineering subject which will be addressing only remembering level of blooms taxonomy so in order to give an experiential learning and in order to achieve higher level of blooms level an open ended activity is designed for IV sem B. E. Industrial and Production Engineering students how these concepts used in the industry I. e. Studying the gage R&R in "Metrology and Quality Engineering" laboratory using Measurement System Analysis (MSA) tool, wherein the students need to design an experiment in order to analyze the gage R&R in terms of the part to be required to measure the data, instruments to be used and number of data to be collected etc. After the collection of data, gage R&R (Repeatability and Reproducibility) has been analyzed using MINITAB software and the capability of gage to be inspected was assessed by the students. Through this open ended activity, the ABET 3b program outcome was measured and analyzed.