regular progress/status reports; schedules Plan/Manual 29 user manual or training manual; business plan; manufacturing plan General 17 varies; client determined deliverables; many deliverables; the usual Student peer evaluations; ethics assignments; individual reflections; classAccountability 16 attendance and participation Final report Interim reports Final recommendation Patent disclosure Conference or journal paper 0 50 100 150 200 250
Finalization Phase, were completed overone summer period by four students. Two of the four students were students who participated inthe Conceptual Design Phase, and two of the students were new. Table 4 Team RolesThe teams of students were diverse and reflective of the demographics in the department. Thefirst student to join the project was female. This student was joined by one male and one femalestudent for the Conceptual Design Phase. The team that completed the Detailed Design andDesign Finalization Phases consisted of one female and three male students. Two of the students’were enrolled in the Plastics Engineering Program and the remaining students two students wereenrolled in the Manufacturing Engineering
to the learning and teaching styles in engineering education by Felder and Silverman.9Active learning encourages not only high levels of physical engagement with course content(such as physically experimenting with concepts) but also reflection on the results of thatactivity. Teaching styles that are correlated with prevailing learning styles lead to higher successand greater fulfillment. Engineers are more likely to be active learners and engaging learningenvironments have a significant impact on this segment of learners. The role of active learningthrough the use of cooperative learning environments and project-based exercises has also beenendorsed by other researchers as means to improve design education.10 It is our thesis that
at Duke University than they were about being successful inthe engineering industry after graduation. As was reflected in the open-ended responses fromSurvey 1 and Survey 3, participants in the focus group also listed math as their most difficultSTEM course. As far as their opinions on the Engineering Design and Communication course,students had a positive experience to date in the class. They appreciated learning a quantitativeapproach to choosing a design solution as well as the unique opportunities the course providedwhich they might not find elsewhere at Duke. Students elaborated on learning the engineeringdesign process, saying the process is different than expected as it took much more time than theythought would be necessary for
teaching the engineering design courses have workedcollaboratively to develop these courses so that the content will be developmental with seamlessintegration and transitions over the seven semester sequence. This was achieved by havingweekly or biweekly meetings to discuss the execution of these courses as well as many meetingsduring summers, before the start and after the completion of each semester to reflect and identifyareas of improvement in content, delivery, and assessment.Our pedagogical vision in teaching these engineering design courses is to enable masterylearning through directed and non-directed, group-based and independent, simple and complex,structured and unstructured, problem-based learning experiences that incrementally expose
through the design sequence. Students learn to work and communicate in both small (2-4), medium (5-7), and large (10+) engineering teams, as an effective member of these design teams, and to work on the process as a team as well as learn to develop and execute a design plan. Individually, students should begin to understand their strengths and weaknesses, be able to reflect on the process and grow. Communication is emphasized and practiced throughout the design sequence through regular submission of memos and technical reports, and frequent technical presentations. Students learn how to compose a proposal, memo, report, technical paper, and technical presentation as well as how to project their professional image through a resume
for improving the overall effectiveness ofthe IPPD Program in meeting educational goals and for maintaining long-lasting relationshipswith sponsoring companies. Students have always been a central stakeholder, yet no professionalpractice guide had ever been provided as a reference for effective interactions with IPPD. A Page 24.1240.4guide was needed to span the IPPD interactions inside and outside the classroom, such as Louinotes in student reflections, a student “would be a professional “both on and off the clock”because being a professional is integral to a person’s identity”11.Streamline procedural, professional, and legal information into
in design orentrepreneurship fields. Specifically, it provides a means to help both novice and expertdesigners and entrepreneurs organize, communicate, refine, and reflect on their ideas. Thecanvas also provides a means of design-thinking documentation in which comparisons betweeninitial, mid, and final versions of the canvas could be used to assess student learning.The prototype version of the innovation canvas is shown in Figure 2 below and is availableonline for educators and practitioners to test, evaluate, and provide feedback36. In addition to thedetails presented in the remainder of this paper, a brief description of the canvas’s themes can befound in the appendix of this paper. The canvas is shared under a Creative Commons (CC