SOLO Taxonomy as an assessment tools for complex engineering / Badrul Nizam Ismail and Dr. Hazrina Ahmad

In general, complex engineering can be defined as ill or poor-defined problem. Ill-defined problem is a situation which the input, process and output of problem-solving task is not clear. On the contrary, well-defined problem has clear input, process, and output. Engineering Programme Accreditation Standard (2020) explicitly mention the requirement for the implementation of complex engineering via complex problem solving and complex engineering activities. In addition, this standard also provides a list of attributes that needs to be fulfilled by the designed assessment, to qualify it as a complex question. In simple words, complex engineering is considered as an ill-defined problem that comply with the required attributes provided in the standard.