, interior, or body structure). Figure 9. Major tasks within the Deep Orange product development process. Establishing the learning environment. The nature of designing activities requires an environment that is not of a traditional classroom nature. Deep Orange requires students to collaborate and interact with each other and with faculty on a regular basis in a permanent collaborative space (resembling a studio). The students work on workstations grouped by their team membership as well as team white boards in the Systems Integration Laboratory (SIL), which is divided into two sections; one is an office like area, and the second is a workshop to build and assemble the concept vehicle. The SIL is equipped with
makerspace is not only about hands-on learning but about increasingly fullparticipation in a makerspace community of practice.3. RESEARCH SITE: THE STANFORD PRL COMMUNITY OF PRACTICEThis study is conducted in a learning laboratory, makerspace, and associated MCoP at StanfordUniversity: the Product Realization Lab (PRL). The PRL is both a physical space and socialcommunity. It is over 9,000ft2 of tools and materials (e.g. woodshop, machine shop, rapidprototyping, foundry) and a community of over 1,000 practicing designers and makers (e.g.students, instructors, industry experts) who are active in the PRL each year. It is a place whereideas and designs are realized; prototyping and iteration are celebrated [23]; self-efficacy is built[13,14] and
Laboratories, where he led teams in reviews of projects and taught courses in design and creativity to newly forming teams. At NCR Corporation he was a manager and consulting analyst in software development projects. He has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Wright State University, Dayton, OH and has attended HBDI workshops.Monika Lumsdaine, E&M Lumsdaine Solar Consultants, Inc. Monika Lumsdaine is management consultant for corporate behavior, with a B.S. degree in mathematics. She won a national design award for the design of a passive solar home from DOE/HUD. She has extensive technical writing experience in solar energy, product quality, and engineering design, including co
across allengineering students. However, as a qualitative study, generalizability is not the goal, but ratherunderstanding individual interpretations of experiences and what meaning individuals areattributing to those experiences.DiscussionIf this is the information age—an age driven by empowered individuals better able to connect toothers, access knowledge, and tailor an environment best suited for her or him—then it is nosurprise that makerspaces are appearing in multiple contexts all over the world. With theknowledge at their fingertips, a handful of creative, imaginative, and motivated individuals aredesigning and producing devices and ideas that were once limited to the selectively trained,operating in industrial oriented laboratories or
, and other purposes [5], [11]. In some contexts, electronic logs or online portfolios maybe used instead of a physical notebook [11], [12]. In academic and industry laboratories, thesenotebooks are permanent, legal documents that have strict protocols for use in order to clearlydocument procedures, establish intellectual property, and protect research subjects [12], [13].These blank books are a tool of the engineering profession, but are also viewed as pedagogicaltools, recommended as a best practice for undergraduate engineering faculty to use for bothinstructional and assessment purposes [3], [5], [11]. While it has been shown that a blank notebook offers some benefits for engineeringstudents [5], [11], for a student engaging in the
motivated and talented people to learn how to define and achieve their dreams. Farrokh Mistree holds the L. A. Comp Chair in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Prior to this position, he was the Associate Chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech – Savannah. He was also the Founding Director of the Systems Realization Laboratory at Georgia Tech. Farrokh’s current research focus is model-based realization of complex systems by managing uncertainty and complexity. The key question he is investigating is what are the principles underlying rapid and robust concept exploration when the analysis models are incomplete and
AC 2011-1570: PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AND DESIGN EXPERIENCESIN INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING COURSES ASSESSING AN IN-CREMENTAL INTRODUCTION OF ENGINEERING SKILLSAndrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University Andrew Gerhart, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, director of the LTU Thermal Science Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate in Energy & Environmental Man