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IFEES GEDC IUCEE Webinar: Mind Your Language of Learning Outcomes

May 10, 2023

9 AM EST

Chief Operations Officer, IN4OBE

This talk on “Mind Your Language of Learning Outcomes” will address various topics of Learning Outcomes (LOs) like Pedagogy, Assessment, Evaluation, Feedback and Quality Improvement of teaching strategy. An accurate technical definition of the structure of LOs becomes the fulcrum of the entire educational system and process.

Dr. Hussain, a global expert in Outcomes Based Education, will present a fundamental structure of LOs design and application. He will elaborate on some common pitfalls of writing outcomes and their consequent detrimental impact on various aspects of education.

Dr. Hussain will also provide some samples of standard course materials to help faculty, accreditation evaluators and other stake holders enhance their understanding of the application accurate LOs. This webinar is a must for teachers, accreditation evaluators and other stake holders of the engineering education process.

Wajid Hussain is a renowned world expert on authentic OBE, QA processes, outcomes assessment, and program evaluation for accreditation using digital technology and software. He has extensive experience supporting and managing outcomes assessment and CQI processes to fulfill regional and ABET accreditation requirements. He joined the academic field coming from an intensive engineering background at Silicon Valley and more than 20 years’ experience with mass production expertise in a Billion-dollar microprocessor manufacturing industry. Over the last two decades, he has managed scores of projects related to streamlining operations with the utilization of state-of-the-art technology and digital systems with significant experience working with ISO standard quality systems. He received the LSI Corporation Worldwide Operations Review 1999 Award for his distinguished contributions to the Quality Improvement Systems. He was the Lead Product Engineer supporting the Portal Player processor for Apple’s iPod plus many other world-famous products at LSI Corporation. He led the first ‘tuning’ efforts in the Middle East by developing a complex database of thousands of outcomes and hundreds of rubrics for the engineering disciplines at the Islamic University. He developed and implemented state-of-the-art Digital Integrated Quality Management Systems for the engineering programs and led their successful ABET accreditation efforts. His research interests include CQI using digital technology, quality and accreditation, outcomes assessment, education and research methods, and VLSI manufacture. He is currently a reviewer for several international conferences. He has been invited keynote or presenter in more than 40 international OBE and education conferences. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE Education Society, a Board Member of the IN4OBE, and a member of the IFEES, AALHE and ASEE.