Evaluation of engineering laboratories

Engineering studies consist of two parts: theory lectures and laboratory practices. Effectiveness of laboratories plays an important role in providing necessary design skills. However, evaluation of laboratories can be subjective and inconsistent. Consequently, a criterion is required to evaluate the engineering laboratories. This paper proposes an evaluation criterion for assessing the effectiveness of engineering laboratories in terms of pedagogic aspects. The identified pedagogic aspects in this paper are: relationship between theory and laboratory practice, content level, activity level, learning environment and laboratory manual. We evaluated seven different laboratories and generated recommendations based on our evaluation results.