Paper ID #13198Analogy Seeded Mind-Maps: A Simple and Quick Design-by-Analogy MethodMr. K. Scott Marshall II, The University of Texas at Austin Scott Marshall is a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin conducting research on Design Methodologies with a focus on directed Design-by-Analogy techniques.Dr. Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin Dr. Richard H. Crawford is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow No. 3. He is also Director of the Design Projects program in Mechanical Engineering. He received his BSME from
Paper ID #13724Academic Maker Spaces and Engineering DesignDr. Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University Vincent Wilczynski is the Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science and the James S. Tyler Director of the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design. As the Deputy Dean, he helps plan and implement all academic initiatives at the School. In addition, he manages the School’s teaching and research resources and facilities. As the James S. Tyler Director of the Center for Engineer- ing Innovation & Design he leads the School’s efforts to promote collaboration, creativity, design and
Paper ID #11298Learning from Experiences: Examining Self-Reflection in Engineering De-sign CoursesJennifer Wegner, University of Michigan College of Engineering Jennifer Wegner is an Assistant Director in Engineering Student Affairs at the University of Michigan, with responsibilities including student organization development, leading unit strategic objectives, and supporting university and college co-curricular initiatives. Her teaching and facilitation experiences in- clude a mentorship/leadership course, LeaderShape R , first year seminars, and a university course on social psychology in residence settings. She is a
upgradeable as one of the functionalities, which could involve both a conventionalengineering thinking and a sustainability mind set. Another example in this case was related tothe concerns on operation and maintenance.Decision making was critical in engineering design and needs to be addressed in this module.The inclusion of the sustainability criteria or indicators was valuable, but the correspondingdecision making became more challenging. The related multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)method for various engineering applications was still an active research area due to itsmultidisciplinary nature15. Our goal of including the MCDA section in the module was toemphasis the importance of selecting and weighting different kinds of criteria in a
research explores the varied trajectories taken by students as they attempt to enter professional disciplines such as engineering, and focuses on the dilem- mas encountered by students as they move through these institutionalized trajectories. He is co-editor of a 2010 National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, Learning Research as a Human Science. Other work has appeared in Linguistics and Education; Mind, Culture, and Activity; Anthropology & Education Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science; the Journal of Engineering Education; and the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. His teaching interests include develop- mental psychology; sociocultural theories of communication
information onthe achievement of the attributes at/near graduation. With this in mind, the two-semesterCapstone Design course for students in their senior year of their undergraduate engineeringdegree programs assesses eight of the twelve CEAB GrAtts (problem analysis, investigation,design, individual and teamwork, communication skills, professionalism, economics and projectmanagement, and lifelong learning). This paper will examine how the Mechanical EngineeringCapstone Design course assesses the achievement of GrAtts and how the assessment data can beused to continually improve the Mechanical Engineering undergraduate degree program andcurriculum.Literature ReviewDevelopment of course learning outcomes and valid assessment methods in
pretty large role when it comes to product design. They are the ones who have the idea in mind of what the product should look like so it is important that they play a large role when it comes to design.”Similarly, another Team 1 student discussed the specific role of stakeholders: “I think that the stakeholders should have a supervisory role in the product design. They should be able to periodically review the design to ensure that their requirements are being met but they should not have direct control over the design of the product itself.”During the semester, Team 1 developed laboratory equipment for a biomedical engineeringresearch group on campus. The project sponsor was an engineering professor and the
Paper ID #12703Structuring Capstone Design Assessment to Achieve Student, Faculty, andEmployer PrioritiesDr. Denny Davis, Ohio State University Dr. Davis is Visiting Professor in the Engineering Education Innovation Center at The Ohio State Univer- sity and Emeritus Professor in Engineering Education at Washington State University. For three decades, he has led multi-institution teams in the development and testing of curriculum materials and assessments for engineering design courses. He is owner of Verity Design Learning LLC, a publisher of workbooks for design reviews and teamwork development. He is a Fellow of the
prepares students for careers inindustry and to create effective solutions for societal needs. Creating meaningful learningexperiences for design education in the engineering classroom is paramount to helping studentsthink and act like designers within engineering contexts.Design Thinking and MakingDesign thinking and Making are the applications of empathy-led, user-centered engineeringdesign processes. It can be an empowering way to design solutions through ideation, rapidprototyping, testing, and execution. Mindsets critical to design thinking and Making include:focusing on human values through empathy for users, having vision for complex problems,embracing prototyping processes as a way to validate ideas, being mindful of the designprocesses
experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
different idea generationmethod. Since all idea sections were conducted at the same time, four different faculty memberstaught each section. All the faculty members teaching idea generation had prior experience inteaching the engineering design process. Within the idea sections, teams of four students wereformed which are referred as ‘concept teams’ throughout the paper. The students worked withtheir concept teams in the idea sections for the duration of the study. The ‘project team’ refers tothe actual senior design project teams to avoid confusion with ‘concept team’.Idea Generation MethodsThe ideation methods that were covered in this study were brainstorming, collaborativesketching, mind-maps, morph matrix, design by analogy, TRIZ, bio-inspired
Paper ID #12099Mini-Design Projects in Capstone: Initial Design Experiences to EnhanceStudents’ Implementation of Design MethodologyMajor Cory A Cooper, United States Air Force Academy Major Cory Cooper is currently an Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering and Capstone Coordinator at the US Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He holds a PhD an MSc in Systems Engineering from the Technical University of Delft and the Air Force Institute of Technology respectively. He has held various developmental engineering and program management positions in the US Air Force, to include Deputy Director for
: And for me I learned a lot about just if you set your mind to something, you can do it. I mean, I didn’t really know too much about cars in general before I started this project. I feel like I learned a whole bunch about cars just through the other team members. And then, beyond that, like I just knew that going into the engineering field now that I feel totally comfortable that I can do the job that they expect me to do. And so, I think it’s helped out a lot that way. [Focus Group, LP1] You know, I think at the beginning of the semester I was definitely like, I don't know if I'm ready to graduate, I don't know if I'm ready for this, but I think just going through, you know, senior design, just
Paper ID #13922Ta-Da! You’re a design thinker! Validating the DesignShop as a Modelfor Teaching Design Thinking to Non-Designers and Achieving Systemic Re-Design in the Education SystemMs. Jessica Asly Artiles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jessica A. Artiles: Mechanical Engineer, Masters of Science Candidate in the Technology and Policy Pro- gram, Masters of Science Candidate in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, jartiles@mit.eduMiss Katherine E LeVine, Wellesley College Katherine LeVine has been working to improve education during her four years at Wellesley College
Paper ID #11935Using Design Process Timelines to Teach Design: Implementing Research Re-sultsDr. Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington Cynthia J. Atman is the founding director of the Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT), a professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering, and the inaugural holder of the Mitchell T. & Lella Blanche Bowie Endowed Chair at the University of Washington. Dr. Atman is co-director of the newly-formed Consortium for Promoting Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE), funded by a $4.4 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. She was
expectations for engineering graduates to design effective solutions to globalproblems have never been higher3, 4, 5. A wide variety of engineering design methodologies andsupporting tools exist, including TRIZ6, 7, axiomatic design8, mind-mapping7,9, andbrainstorming10, all of which help engineers apply their engineering knowledge to the solution ofcomplex, system-level problems and find the optimal solution to meet multiple requirements11, 12.Recently, engineering design has shifted to a user-centered focus, incorporating principles fromthe field of human-computer interactions13, 14. Within this shift, design thinking has emerged as astrong methodology that encourages user-centered design and the creation of innovativesolutions to complex problems15
Spring 2014 semester is likely due to the move to electronic surveying methods, whichdecreased the student response rate and in the minds of many faculty at our institution, skewedresponses to the negative, based upon the opinion that those students who had a bad experiencewere more likely to take the time to respond. Page 26.184.9On the positive side, the course has also been very well received by members of the department’sIndustrial Advisory Board and company interviewers. Students have discovered that discussingthe course with potential employers and even bringing their Stirling Engine to interviews to beparticularly impactful. One instance
Paper ID #11163Looking back: A Student Review and History of AerosPACE – a Multi-University, Multi-Disciplinary, Distributed, Industry-University Capstone ProjectMrs. Larissa Cannon, Brigham Young University Larissa Cannon participated in AerosPACE for her Senior Capstone project. She has since graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University and is currently working in the aerospace industry. Her undergraduate experience included three internships at Pratt & Whitney and one internship at ATK. She is the co-author of two published papers and has four years experience of
the educa- tional success of students. She has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level, re-imagining traditional pedagogical practices and engaging students in intra- and intergroup dialogue.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Assistant Research Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Engineering Education in at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton (2003) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University (2008). Her research focuses on strategies for design innovations through divergent and convergent thinking as well as through deep needs and community assessments using design ethnography, and translating
Paper ID #11638Exploring the Effects of Problem Framing on Solution Shifts: A Case StudyMs. Samuelina M. Wright, University of Michigan Samuelina Wright is a senior in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has worked in design and ideation research for over a year. Her focus has been on quantifying the diversity of so- lution sets, studying design problem framing, and exploring paradigm relatedness. She is interested in engineering education, which is where her passion for teaching and her technical background in engineer- ing overlap. As an engineering designer herself, she is interested in