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Empathy and Human-Centered Design 1
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Pamela L Dickrell, University of Florida; Lilianny Virguez, University of Florida; Andrea Goncher, University of Florida
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Design in Engineering Education
. First-year projects differ across universities, but typical projects can include a focus ondesigning and building prototypes, working in teams, full- and small-scale projects, case-studyanalysis, reverse engineering, and the integration of engineering, math, and science courses 2.The course described in this paper builds on the effective components of project-based, hands-onfirst-year design projects, and uses the human centered design process to frame an approachwhere students are encouraged to incorporate the user, environment, and ethical considerationsthroughout the process. The course has capacity for over 1,600 students annually at theUniversity of Florida providing meaningful individual hands-on makerspace skills to eachstudent, and
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Design Across the Curriculum 2
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Michelle Maher, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Kathleen O'Shea, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Jacob M. Marszalek, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Darran Cairns, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education
per week. There are no course prerequisites. The redesigned fall 2019student learning outcomes for the course were to: (1) Gain awareness of the National Academyof Engineering Grand Challenges for Engineering, (2) Demonstrate an understanding ofengineering ethics, (3) Apply the design process to a National Academy of Engineering GrandChallenge, and (4) Develop/strengthen collaborative skills and abilities as part of a design team.Enrollment in large, introductory courses often fluctuates early in the semester. One-hundred andninety-six students were enrolled at the start of the course. Six withdrew in the first week; threeremained enrolled but completed only initial assignments or none at all. Table 1 displaysenrollment demographics of the
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Empathy and Human-Centered Design 2
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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education
-learning community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in en- gineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Unconscious Bias in Peer Ratings of International Students’ Contributions to First-Year Design Projects?AbstractPeer ratings are often used to help award individual grades from team projects. It is thereforeimportant to understand the extent to which these peer ratings may be influenced by unconsciousor implicit bias
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Empathy and Human-Centered Design 2
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Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, Purdue University at West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education
affect change locally and/or globally? What did you learn about the community, the needs, and/or the quality of the service provided? c) Academic Enhancement: What did you learn related to your discipline and how was that enhanced by the service-learning context? What did you learn about Human-Centered Design? d) Ethics: What you have learned about professional ethics, the ethical issues you encountered in your team and your project, and how decisions regarding ethical issues are made individually and as a team?The reflections offer a rich opportunity for data analysis to see what students are taking awayfrom their experience and believe is important each week. For this study, the student reflectionswere analyzed
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Design Across the Curriculum 2
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Lindy Hamilton Mayled, Arizona State University; Ryan J. Meuth, Arizona State University; Brent James Sebold, Arizona State University; Eric Prosser, Arizona State University
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Design in Engineering Education
university-based entrepreneurship and innovation programs. Brent’s expertise also includes the design and leadership of impactful collegiate engagement programs for universal learners.Mr. Eric Prosser, Arizona State University Eric Prosser is the Engineering and Entrepreneurship Librarian with the ASU Library. Eric is the liaison to the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and provides research services for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students along with instruction in critical analysis and information literacy, including the legal and ethical use of information. Eric has a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Harvey Mudd College, a Master of Information Resources and Library Science from the University
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Design Teams 1
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Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Tech; Homero Murzi, Virginia Tech; Sophia Vicente, Virginia Tech
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education
, including the purpose andthe research question before agreeing to the interview, and participants were also ensuredcomplete confidentiality during information collection from the interview. The study securedethical approval from the Human Research Ethics Committee of Australia and participation wasvoluntary. The interviews were held in an enclosed area to ensure confidentiality amongparticipants. Interviews lasted no more than 1 hour and were audio recorded. To ensure processreliability of the study, the transcription was cleaned by using pseudonyms and identifiable datawas removed in order to maintain participant confidentiality [23]. All participants signed aconsent form.Data AnalysisThe interview data were initially analyzed using an open coding
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Capstone Design Practices
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Valerie Vanessa Bracho Perez, Florida International University; Anilegna Nuñez Abreu, Florida International University; Ameen Anwar Khan, Florida International University; Indhira María Hasbún, Virginia Tech; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University
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Design in Engineering Education
, cultural, and safety ramifications [2], [3].Design is progressively becoming the backbone of fostering a holistic engineering education asexperts and the ABET Accreditation Criteria underline the significance of a student’s ability to“apply engineering design” (from Criterion 2), "use engineering judgment" (from Criterion 6),and “recognize ethical and professional responsibilities” (from Criterion 4) in a variety of globalcontext [4]. Modeling a genuine design experience requires overcoming multifaceted obstaclessuch as forming realistic design constraints, providing adequate stakeholder accessibility, andcreating an atmosphere that provokes empathy towards stakeholders. Additionally, both studentsand educators face many challenges balancing
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Capstone Pedgagogy
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Andrew P. Ritenour, Western Carolina University; Chip W. Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Patrick Gardner, Western Carolina University; Brett Ronald Banther, Western Carolina University; Jeffrey L. Ray, Western Carolina University
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Design in Engineering Education
becamethe school’s concerted effort to supply work-ready engineers who have had the opportunity tohone their professional skills through multiple linked courses requiring: written and oralcommunications; project management; open-ended problem solving; ethical and professionalresponsibilities; public health and safety; and an understanding of global, cultural, social,environmental, and economic factors.PBL senior-level activities (Capstone) are carried out by the School of Engineering +Technology (SET) in conjunction with the Rapid Center in the College of Engineering andTechnology (CET). These PBL efforts are strongly supported by the school faculty, which serveas faculty mentors on the various projects. The Rapid Center is the engagement arm of
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Empathy and Human-Centered Design 1
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Abbas Ghassemi, University of California, Merced; Christopher A. Butler, University of California, Merced; Marina Shapiro
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Diversity
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Design in Engineering Education
gateway andcornerstone engineering design course that will introduce human-centered design concepts inapplied scenarios. Modeled after the successful Engineering Service Learning course at UCMerced, the students in the HCRD course will be open to all majors at the university, bothengineering and non-engineering. Design concepts such as problem identification, stakeholderand context development, specification development and market analysis, iterative prototypingand evaluation, collaborative writing, client interactions, ethics, and other topics will be covered.Online videos with accompanying quizzes will assess the subject matter understanding of thestudents. In-class discussions will be conducted with students with real-world examples of
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Design Mental Frameworks
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Qiushi Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Design in Engineering Education
courseprepares students for a profession,” Educational Technology Research andDevelopment, vol. 53, no.1, pp.65-85. Mar. 2005.[15] B. A. King and S. Magun-Jackson, “Epistemological beliefs of engineeringstudents,” Journal of Technology Studies, vol.35, no.2, pp.56-64, Win. 2009.[16] B. A. King and S. Magun-Jackson, “Differences in engineering students' beliefsabout knowledge across educational levels,” Conference paper for the EducationDivision's 2011 ASQ.[17] W. G. Perry, Forms of ethical and intellectual development in the college years:A scheme. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.[18] M. F. Belenky, B. M. Clinchy, N. R. Goldberger and J. M. Tarule, Women's waysof knowing: the development of self, voice and mind. New York: Basic Books, 1986
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Capstone Design Practices
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Zhinan Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Houzhi Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Lu Chen, Shanghai JiaoTong University; Yaxin Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Jiabin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Design in Engineering Education
], engineering project management skills, abilityto work in a multidisciplinary team [5, 6], higher-stage cognitive development [6, 7], andthe like. For example, Liu’s qualitative research towards industry and communityorganization professional staff identified lots of expected employable skills should betrained through capstone design to help students transform from school to workplacesmoothly, such as interpersonal skill, project management skills, feedback and presentationskills. What’s more, professional ethics, global awareness, and civic responsibility werealso emphasized [4]. Walker et al. introduced Studio Culture into engineering capstonedesign courses and the pilot case reported a significant boost in students’ cognitivedevelopment [8]. To be
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Design Teams 1
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Akhil Krishna Mohan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Priyanka Dey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sizhi Tan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Design in Engineering Education
does not break ties using GPA,however, as its randomization takes precedence for the fair tie-breaking.junto can also be compared to CATME 5 , a software tool to make teams. CATME takes a moreindividual-centric approach, querying instructors to complete subjective surveys about theirstudents. Combining peoples’ schedules, work ethics, and interests with the survey data, CATMEprovides holistic teams, but requires many inputs. junto, in contrast, cares only about preferencedata, and optionally factors in student GPA while balancing teams. In the workflow for creatingcapstone project teams, junto provides a specialized option, tuned to its requirements.The scalability of genetic algorithms is an important factor in making junto a portable web
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Design Methodologies 1
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Hadi Ali, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University
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Design in Engineering Education
senior year, recenttrends emerged to weave PBL in the first year and throughout the curriculum in semester-long projects.Students are being introduced to design methods, team dynamics and ethics in parallel with the analysis-focused courses (Dym et al., 2005). However, the systematic integration of design and analysis in coursesis still lacking (Carberry & McKenna, 2014). Some of the outstanding research questions about PBL asproposed by Dym et al. (2005) include: “What are the best proportions of problems, projects, teamwork,technology, and reality for a given state of student development,” and “how do the proportions changewith regard to the context of different engineering disciplines and institutional missions?” (p. 112).There are some
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Empathy and Human-Centered Design 1
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Alexander Pagano, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Leon Liebenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Design in Engineering Education
engineering practice. The ABET accreditation criteria for engineering programsoutlines required student outcomes which prepare graduates to enter the professional practice ofengineering [21]. We believe human-centered design activities can directly benefit at least thefollowing three criteria, quoted here: • An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors • An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences • An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed
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Design Mental Frameworks
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Laura R. Murphy, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Colleen M. Seifert, University of Michigan; Eytan Adar, University of Michigan; Sophia Brueckner, University of Michigan
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Design in Engineering Education
-residence at Nokia Bell Labs and an assistant professor at the University of Michigan teaching Sci-Fi Prototyping, a course combining sci-fi, prototyping, and ethics. Her ongoing objective is to combine her background in art, design, and engineering to inspire a more positive future. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Considering people: An exploratory investigation of engineering student ideationLaura R. MurphyShanna R. DalyColleen M. SeifertEytan AdarSophia BruecknerUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USAAbstractHuman-centered design is a prominent approach to engineering design. However, research hasdocumented multiple engineering student challenges in considering the people who will use
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Design Methodologies 2
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Arash Nourimand, University of Toronto; Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto
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Design in Engineering Education
professionals (i.e. mechanical designengineers, product designers, industrial designers, etc.) from a variety of industrial sectors, anddifferent age/experience groups. Prior to creating the survey, the research purpose and logisticswere discussed, reviewed and approved by the research institution’s research ethics board. Thesurvey was specifically aimed at gathering non-specific demographic information, andevaluating whether there is a correlation between heuristics in CAD usage in the conceptualphase of design, and how these insights correspond to the designer’s perception of productquality and collaboration effectiveness. The insights derived from this survey will be discussedwith respect to the literature review to assess the recent state-of-art in
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Design Teams 2
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Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eltahry Elghandour, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eileen W. Rossman P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Sarah Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Design in Engineering Education
similar work ethic. Questions 2 and 7 wereused for certain projects to ensure important skills (e.g. mechatronics, FEA) were represented onthe team. Question 7 was additionally used to balance the other skills on a team (e.g. planning,writing, CAD, manufacturing). Question 8 was used to ensure known personality conflictswouldn’t interfere with team dynamics. Question 9 was used to keep certain students together(often by moving them from a popular project). Question 10 was used for the popular projects,to refine the final team membership. Question 6 relates to certification for using certain machinetools, and was not used for team-forming. The process took about ten hours to form 22 teamsacross three different lab times.Student-Formed TeamsIn
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Design Across Curriculum 1
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Nicole Danielle Trenchard, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Christopher Lombardo, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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Design in Engineering Education
aniterative revision process on weekly assignments based on feedback given by the instructional staffafter each submission, a process that produces increasingly refined deliverables that depend onwork completed in the previous weeks. A similar process exists for each component of theHumanitarian Library. The authors believe that this process of iterative student and instructor co-creation and co-evaluation can lead to a greater depth of understanding of technical content, activeengagement in real-world engineering ethics, and increased effectiveness of project outcomes.This report will present the logistics and course administration required to design and implementsuch a course. It will characterize the instructional staff makeup, organization of
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Design Mental Frameworks
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Shan Peng, University of Oklahoma; Zhenjun Ming, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Janet Katherine Allen, University of Oklahoma; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma
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Design in Engineering Education
process a. Forming a team b. Accepting and executing a team contract to stipulate ethical guidelines to decision making and problem resolution c. Understanding the problem and framing the problem statement d. Proposing a plan of action 2. Preliminary design a. Ideating and generating concepts b. Developing concepts to ensure functional feasibility, ensure realizability (technical feasibility) c. Evaluating the concepts (functional feasibility, technical feasibility) and identifying that system concept which is most likely to succeed 3. Embodiment design a. Refining / modifying the most likely to succeed concept through
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Empathy and Human-Centered Design 2
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Devanshi Shah, University of Georgia; Xiaoou Yang, University of Georgia; Beshoy Morkos, University of Georgia
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Design in Engineering Education
, this class focused on approaches to equip studentswith better understanding of design process and product development. Some of the key featuresof this course were17 : 1. Learning and implementing the skills/approaches used in designing 2. Plan and organize data related to projects 3. Informing students with importance of analysis, evaluation and synthesis in designing 4. Use of important and fundamental concepts of work environment 5. Focused on inculcating ethical values related to work 3.2. Survey Instrument:The survey instrument used in this study comprises of two questionnaires, to measure andanalyze empathy in students of junior year in mechanical engineering. Junior year students indesign methodologies class
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Capstone Design Practices
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Kurt Stephen Stresau, University of Central Florida; Mark W. Steiner, University of Central Florida
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Design in Engineering Education
that they vary significantly in their implementation [33]. From Howe’s work asampling of some of the differentiating characteristics are shown in Table 1 below. Characteristics Representative Examples Duration One to Two Semesters Lecture Topics design process, teamwork, project planning, engineering ethics, intellectual property, etc. Sources of Projects Academic, Student Proposed, Service, Industry, etc. Assessment Methods Project Reports, Design Reviews, Peer Evaluations, Effort Reports, etc. Size of
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Empathy and Human-Centered Design 1
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Cristian Eduardo Vargas-Ordóñez, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University at West Lafayette
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Design in Engineering Education
essential for the creation of attitudesrelated to solving social problems as well as for developing the abilities that could help them. This vision has been appropriated for American engineering curricula considering thatengineering can have a humanistic approach through specific courses or methodologies, theassessment of their activities from a perspective of the ethics, and the reflection about therelationship between engineering and technology, including its impacts [8]. In that sense, themain objective is deconstructing engineering from a utilitarian perspective, based on effectivityand loyalty to institutions, to reconstruct it in a libertarian or communitarian perspective based