Analytical Hierarchy Process To Determine The Weights of Student Outcomes for Engineering Undergraduate Programs for ABET Accreditation

Engineering education is becoming more and more versatile and complex due to a number of courses offered by each engineering department. The criterion 4. a-k of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) consists of 2(two) class of interaction based on the program hard skills and soft skills which cover all the sets of programs. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is utilized for pair-wise comparison of the student’s outcomes in Engineering Undergraduate Programs of the whole world wide. In this study, it is attempted to estimate the realistic weights of the criterion 4 using the classical AHP, the weight of the Nine-Level Fundamental Scale of judgments are expressed via numerical scale order to represent the relative important among the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) by collecting the responses from the diarchy which comprise of 4 affected parties (students, alumni, employees and academic staffs) at the various department of engineering from all parts of the world based on the outcome of the parties by means of survey questionnaires and internet website has been designed also to implement AHP judgments on the outcomes from the criterion 4a-k of the ABET. The focus of the data collection is to answer the question, “can the engineering undergraduate program demonstrate the level to which students have attained the anticipated student’s outcome?” The evidence of students learning is then used to identify student strengths and weakness related to each of the student outcome for making decision about how to improve the programs teaching and learning process, a defined weight calculated by applying classical AHP method. The implication of this research is that the faculty members can utilize the weights of the program outcomes generated as a result of this study and implement them for the continuous improvement process.