An elective course suggestion system developed in computer engineering department using fuzzy logic

Besides required courses which are compulsory for each student to be taken, universities also offer elective courses chosen by the students themselves. In their undergraduate study, since students are not guided about the elective courses, they lack information about the description and content of the course and generally fail to take the appropriate ones for their course of study. As a solution, using the knowledge of the previous required courses taken by the student it is possible to guide the student about elective courses appropriate for him/her. In this study, information from the transcripts of students are analyzed, and using this information a relationship is conducted between the required courses and the elective courses taken previously by the student. Rules are extracted by the help of data mining and an elective course suggestion system is developed using fuzzy logic. Successful results are obtained from the tests; it is observed that the students successful from the required courses are also successful in the related elective ones.