Liu, A., & Morrison, J. R., & Dai, Y., & Lu, S. C. (2015, June), Design and Evaluation of a Cross-cultural and Trans-disciplinary Global Innovation Course  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE International Forum, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/1-2--17129

\bibitem{asee_peer_17129}
  Liu, A., \& Morrison, J. R., \& Dai, Y., \& Lu, S. C. (2015, June), \emph{Design and Evaluation of a Cross-cultural and Trans-disciplinary Global Innovation Course}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE International Forum, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/1-2--17129

Ang Liu, James R. Morrison, Yun Dai, and Stephen C-Y. Lu.  "Design and Evaluation of a Cross-cultural and Trans-disciplinary Global Innovation Course".  2015 ASEE International Forum, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/17129 Internet.  19 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_17129}
  Ang Liu, James R. Morrison, Yun Dai, and Stephen C-Y. Lu.
  "Design and Evaluation of a Cross-cultural and Trans-disciplinary Global Innovation Course".
  \emph{2015 ASEE International Forum, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/17129 Internet.  19 Apr, 2024

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AB  -        Cross-cultural, Trans-disciplinary, and Global Capstone Design CourseThis paper aims to present our best practices of developing a global capstone design course,which features a unique cross-cultural and trans-disciplinary teaching and learning of the subjectof engineering design. The course was collaboratively developed and jointly offered by fiveleading global universities, which included a top 10 engineering school in the United States, apublic research university in Israel, a private research university in India, a public researchuniversity in China, and a public research university in South Korea. Class participants included32 American, 16 Israelite, 32 Indian, 16 Chinese, and 16 Korean undergraduate students.Videoconferencing technology made possible the synchronized lectures among multiplenetworked classrooms on different campuses and in different countries. The class was equallydivided into 16 project teams, each was composed of 2 American, 1 Israelite, 2 Indian, 1Chinese, and 1 Korean students. A variety of eLearning tools and web conferencing solutionswere provided to facilitate collaborative activities of these 16 globally distributed, multicultural,trans-disciplinary, and virtual teams.The teams were tasked a semester long project to design “a collaborative learning space onuniversity campus”. Since a great majority of class participants were lacking any previousdesign experience, focus of the course was placed on the functional and conceptual design stagesinstead of the embodiment and detail design stages. The specific design methods that were taughtincluded the Kano Customer Satisfaction Model, Quality Function Deployment, InnovativeDesign Thinking approach, and Axiomatic Design Theory. There were four major milestoneswith respect to the team design project. First, all teams were asked to identify, discuss a fewproducts that customers from different cultures would perceive difficulty of telling the design’soriginal purpose. Second, the teams were tasked to carry out the Quality Function Deployment tosystemically build a House of Quality, as a way to transform customer voices into functionalrequirements. Next, the teams were required to follow the Innovative Design Thinking approachto generate multiple logically feasible concepts, and to select the functionally simplest oneaccording to the Independence Axiom of the Axiomatic Design Theory. Finally, a design reviewpresentation session was organized for each team to reflect its complete design process in frontof the whole classAt the conclusion of the course, each class participant finished an anonymous questionnaire withrespect to, for example, their overall satisfaction of the course content and structure, to whatextent participating in the course had improved their interest and understanding of designthinking, the difficulty of reaching each project milestone, etc. Moreover, the set of 16 globallydistributed design teams were compared with another set of 16 locally distributed design teamswith respect to their averaged design performance, particularly in specific to the metrics ofquality and novelty. Last but not least, we discussed some best practices of developing andoperating such a global capstone design course with respect to, for example, lessons learned,challenges encountered, uncertainties occurred, and problem addressed.
AU  - Ang Liu
AU  - James R. Morrison
AU  - Yun Dai
AU  - Stephen C-Y. Lu
CY  - Seattle, Washington
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PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Design and Evaluation of a Cross-cultural and Trans-disciplinary Global Innovation Course
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