Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

prior art, customer objective(s), customer requirements,design economics, drawings, analytical results, engineering changes, test reports, and an openissues list4. Patent search results may also be included. As the design develops, the presentationshould provide insights into design activities, design alternatives considered and selected,technical/economic trade-off analysis and justifications, and conclusions21. Often the TDR process includes oral presentations. During oral presentations, designassumptions, analysis, alternatives and design methods are challenged during question andanswer (Q&A) portions of the TDR. Duesing4 (2004) states that it is “…critical that engineersexplain their concepts and designs to an engineering and

Conference Session

Developing the Design Skillset

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim Mohedas, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

? Documenting the effect of usability sessions on novice software designers. J Res Comput Educ. 2001;33(3):235 – 250.12. Scott JB. The Practice of Usability: Teaching User Engagement Through Service-Learning. Tech Commun Q. 2008;17(4):381–412.13. Mohedas I, Daly SR, Sienko KH. Characterizing Students’ Use of Design Ethnography in a Capstone Design Course. Int J Eng Educ. 2014. In Press.14. Zoltowski CB, Oakes WC, Cardella ME. Students ’ Ways of Experiencing Human-Centered Design. J Eng Educ. 2012;101(1):28–59. Page 24.1126.915. Creswell J. Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl A. Reidsema PhD, The University of Queensland; Lydia Kavanagh, The University of Queensland; Lesley Jolly, Strategic Partnerships

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

their learning.In addition, communication and support tools such as an online Q&A tool, Facebook forumand online tutoring were provided. These online resources were organised through an in-house developed “Learning Pathway” tool that provided links to what students needed toknow and what they needed to do. The Learning Pathway tool organised and presented thisinformation on a weekly basis. The results of these improvements are apparent in Figure 4but more is needed to communicate the rationale in ways that make sense to students (seediscussion below).Observation of student learning activities revealed many unexpected insights into whatstudents need to learn and how they go about learning it, from the group in the workshop whocould not

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ang Liu, University of Southern California; Stephen Y. Lu, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

24.1035.13Traditionally, the team-instructor interaction on design projects mostly takes place during thereview presentations in class. For example, after all teams present their design process/outcometo the whole class, the instructor interacts with each team during the limited Q&A minutes. Thedisadvantage is that the instructor often spends a significant amount of the interaction timecorrecting every team’s similar mistakes in using the design method instead of demonstratinghow the instructor would design differently. As a consequence, it is common that the grading ofdesign presentations is largely determined based on “how correctly the methods were used”instead of “how creatively the problem was solved”.6. Conclusion and future worksThis paper presented

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren F. Smith, UNSW, Canberra, Australia; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

of surveys completed by individuals Table 4 – The Survey Questions and the Surveys in which they were asked (Highlighted: 1,3,4,7,16,17,20,22,23,24 – 10 consistently asked competency questions)Q # Question 1A 1B 2A 2B 3&4 ABILITY TO MANAGE INFORMATION AND PROCESSES1 I am confident in my ability to scope, plan and manage a process * 1 1 1 12 I am confident in my ability to gather, interpret, validate and use information