Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luke David Conlin, Stanford University; Doris B Chin Ph.D., Stanford Graduate School of Education; Kristen Pilner Blair, Stanford University; Maria Cutumisu, Stanford University; Daniel L Schwartz, Stanford University

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Design in Engineering Education

DoubleAdvanced). Instruction took place over about 20 class sessions spanning a period of five weeks,covering three main topic areas in succession: Math, Social Studies, and Science. At the end ofinstruction, students in both conditions played both the Posterlet and Photolet assessment games(described below).In both conditions, the lessons integrated the subject matter content within the context of a seriesof design projects. In Math, design projects included designing a house or a candy box. InSocial Studies, the project was to design a fair system for making class-level decisions. InScience, the project was to design a game that would teach people about factors contributing tothe stability of ecosystems. Throughout the instruction, we introduced and

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed E. El-Sayed, Kettering University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, Kettering University

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Design in Engineering Education

challenges and the impacts of their design decisions on the environment are themain drivers for the environmental sustainability integration with the capstone experience. Page 23.785.2Environmental Sustainability Educational ModulesFor addressing environmental sustainability and promoting environmentally consciousengineering practices. a dedicated multi-disciplinary group of faculty have developed theinnovative interdisciplinary course materials for Environmentally Conscious Design andManufacturing13. The development project was funded in part by a grant from the NationalScience Foundation. The developed materials are organized in the six topical

Conference Session

Design Tools and Methodology I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; John J. Wood, U.S. Air Force Academy; Philip Knodel, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin; Robert Vincent, U. S. Air Force Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

completing his Ph.D. in 2002, he returned to the Air Force Academy where he has been on the faculty ever since. The current focus of Wood’s research is the continued development of empir- ical testing methods using similitude-based approaches. This approach provides significant potential for increasing the efficiency of the design process through a reduction in required full-scale testing and an expansion of the projected performance profiles using empirically-based prediction techniques. Wood’s research also includes the development of robotic ground and air vehicle systems using innovative concep- tual design techniques for current technology implementations, as well as futuristic projections, applied in the framework

Conference Session

Design Cognition III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University

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Design in Engineering Education

producebetter, more efficient, and more affordable designs than those of previous generations. Withimposing grand challenges and worldwide economical instability, innovative design isconsidered more critical than ever1. Hence, it is essential that creativity and innovativeness betaught to and nurtured in engineering students from the onset of their education.Team design projects are commonly used to provide students early design experience andnurture their engineering creativity. During such projects, instructors often form design teams toincrease demographic diversity (e.g. gender or race) because of the potential positive effects onteam and social outcomes. While the perceived benefits of gender and racial diversity amongwork and project teams are

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Steve Blair, University of Utah; Peter Rogers, Ohio State University; Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida; Glen A. Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

was promoted to IPPD Director in 2001. IPPD is an experiential multidisciplinary design program where teams of students complete real projects for sponsoring companies and agencies. Stanfill has recruited more than 250 industry-sponsored projects and directed the efforts of more than 1,600 senior-level engineering and business students for the IPPD program. In 2003, he helped create the Integrated Technology Ventures (ITV) program and serves as Chair of the ITV Board of Directors. The ITV program exposes students to the realities of technology start-up companies while assisting UF researchers in commercializing their technological innovations. Virtual companies comprised of engi- neering, business, and law

Conference Session

Design Tools & Methodology I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Farris, Grand Valley State University; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

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Design in Engineering Education

focus on the medical device developmentHugh Jack, Grand Valley State University A Professor of Product Design and Manufacturing. His interests include Automation, Robotics, Project Management, and Design. Page 22.614.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Towards a More Rigorous Approach to Concept Generation and SelectionAbstractFree-form problem solving is an important part of undergraduate studies. Open-ended design is aparticularly poignant activity for engineering students.The Pugh concept selection matrix is widely taught for design concept selection. The power ofthis method is

Conference Session

Best In DEED

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Reynolds Brubaker, Stanford University; Vikas Rammohan Maturi, Stanford University; Barbara A. Karanian, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; David Beach, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

. Companies that she has worked with renew their commitment to innovation. She also helps students an- swer these questions when she teaches some of these methods to engineering, design, business, medicine, and law students. Her courses use active storytelling and self-reflective observation as one form to help student and industry leaders traverse across the iterative stages of a project- from the early, inspirational stages to prototyping and then to delivery.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research

Conference Session

Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and re- cently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity. She can be contacted by email at

Conference Session

Assessing Design Coursework II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Nazemetz, Oklahoma State University; Paul Rossler, Oklahoma State University; Martin High, Oklahoma State University; Karen High, Oklahoma State University

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Design in Engineering Education

innovative design solutions. This paper outlines the experiencesgained using the USPTO patent library to develop design solutions in the Introduction toEngineering Design with CAD course project. In this course, freshman and sophomoreengineering students use the patent library to develop an understanding of engineering conceptsand then apply these concepts to develop an integrated set of design components. Use of thepatent library allows students to make significant and rapid progress in understanding anddeveloping an integrated solution without having to have had all of the advanced engineeringcourses necessary to develop the components.Intr oductionOver 7.4 million U.S. patents have been issued since the first U.S. patent was issued on July

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Sánchez-Parkinson, University of Michigan ; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; James Paul Holloway, University of Michigan; Amy J Conger, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan; Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

, China, Germany and Ghana.Dr. Amy J Conger, University of Michigan Amy Conger is Assistant Vice Provost for Global and Engaged Education at the University of Michigan. She manages strategic projects that help U- M offer experiential learning opportunities for students and strengthen institutional platforms for teaching and scholarship. She served for 7 years as Director of International Programs in Engineering at the University of Michigan, and in this role more than doubled participation in curricular programs abroad, and helped create similar growth in the co-curricular. Amy also teaches ENGR 260: Engineering Across Cultures, a required course for the U-M international minor for engineers.Dr. Kathleen H. Sienko

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sumedh Inamdar, University of Texas, Austin; Krystian Zimowski, University of Texas, Austin; Kevin A. Gibbons Ret., U.S. Air Force Academy, NexOne, Inc., and CAStLE; Brittany Rucker, U.S. Air Force Academy; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin

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Design in Engineering Education

NexOne, Inc., in the Center for Aircraft Structural Life Extension (CAStLE) located at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs. He taught in the AF Academy Department of Engineering Mechanics for four years, where he earned his Assistant Professorship and served as the Director of the Applied Mechanics Laboratory. He currently works as an advisor for a senior capstone research team and mentor to multiple mechanical instrumentation project teams. He earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering with minor in engineering mechanics from the Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT. He spent 22 years on active duty in the U.S. Air Force and is a Flight Test Engineer graduate of the USAF Test

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Logan Oplinger, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Design in Engineering Education

taught a new form of theengineering design process, iterative design. Basic iterative design involves looping through thedesign process, showing that it is never ending, but rather builds upon past projects/designs(Figure 6). From there the individual builds upon the process, evolving it into their own personalmachine. The focus of iterative design processes is to increase design quality due to increasedtransition and collection time5. Page 24.893.7 Figure 6: Basic Iterative Loop204.1 PERT ModelingThe Programming Evaluation and Review Technique21 (PERT) evolved from the critical pathmodel used to find the quickest

Conference Session

Design Across Curriculum 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Michael S. Thompson, Bucknell University; Stewart Thomas, Bucknell University

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Design in Engineering Education

electrical engineering at Bucknell University. He is currently interested in engineering design education, engineering education policy, and the philosophy of engineering education.Dr. Michael S. Thompson, Bucknell University ”Stu” is an associate professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bucknell Uni- versity, in Lewisburg, PA. While his teaching responsibilities typically include digital design, computer- related electives, and senior design, his focus in the classroom is to ignite passion in his students for en- gineering and design through his own enthusiasm, open-ended student-selected projects, and connecting engineering to the world around them. He spends a great deal of time looking for

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed El-Sayed, Kettering University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho

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Design in Engineering Education

-based classroom practitioners at the University of Idaho Page 13.362.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 DESIGN AND INTEGRATION OF A CAPSTONE COURSE TO ACHIEVE PROGRAM OUTCOMESAbstractA capstone is the top and last stone in a building. Similarly, a capstone course is usually the peakand last experience for students in a higher education program. Depending on the discipline andinstitution capstone courses may take the form of group projects, senior seminars, research, orany other activity that successfully integrates and synthesizes what students have learned throughthe academic program

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Student Empathy & Human-centered Design

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marsha Maraj, Imperial College London; Colin Paul Hale; Andreas Kogelbauer; Klaus Hellgardt

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Design in Engineering Education

theMechanical Design Project module taught to chemical engineering students at ImperialCollege London (ICL).The MEng Chemical Engineering programme at ICL is currently undergoing a review of itscurriculum and we believe that this study and its results would be valuable to inform anddirect future module design within the programme in which many modules are team-based.This could involve and lead to the introduction of new- and the strengthening of existing peerlearning opportunities which could transform the way we teach and learn in our department.The role of academic self-efficacy, peer learning and team efficacy within PBLThe use of PBL in engineering education is widespread [7, 8, 12 - 15]. In PBL, real-lifeproblems are presented as the stimuli to

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Student Empathy & Human-centered Design

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anas Chalah, Harvard University; Fawwaz Habbal, Harvard University; Michael Raspuzzi, Harvard University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

respond to challenges in workshops settings and apply their knowledge,fabricate and build prototypes to test different hypotheses. The classroom becomes collaborativeenvironment among students and, faculty, and staff, working together to respond to the challenge.Instructors provide different scaffolding to match the varying needs of the students through thedesign process as well as support team-based project work [3-5]. This paper presents our methodsfor prototyping human centered design engineering curricula through summer programs.While we initially created pilots with small groups of our college students to test and verify theeffectiveness of complementary additions to the curriculum, the demand for more topics to testincreased and made it

Conference Session

Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keelin Siomha Leahy, University of Limerick; Patricia Mannix-McNamara, Research Centre for Education and Professional Practice

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Design in Engineering Education

exploration for divergent and convergent thinking.The rhetoric of curriculum advocates the development of student creativity and problemsolving capabilities1. The development of these capabilities is hampered in schools by thedominance of exam performance. Lee and Todd argue that in the current climate of academicperformance does not always include innovation and creativity2. Assessment is said to bedriving the methodology of teaching4. In schools dominated by exam performance, howstudent’s creative problem solving abilities are being nurtured and developed is questionable.It has been highlighted that design is being taught through design projects assessmentcriteria2. Due to assessment criteria and ad hoc approaches to design processes, cognitive

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Ann McKenna, Northwestern University

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Design in Engineering Education

engineering design and how flexible students are in applyingthis knowledge when developing solutions. We are using the framework of adaptive expertise tofocus our work, where the framework takes into account “efficiency” and “innovation” aspectsof knowledge and learning. Using the adaptive expertise framework, with a specific focus oncomputational/analytical knowledge, we document the type of evidence students use whenselecting possible design alternatives, appropriate models or methods of analysis, and wheninterpreting the results to justify their decisions.In previous work we analyzed student design project reports from different academic years, andfrom different disciplines. Specifically, our data consisted of first-year and capstone

Conference Session

Best In DEED

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Giovanna Scalone, University of Washington; Aaron Justin Joya, University of Washington; Kathryn Elizabeth Shroyer, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington

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Design in Engineering Education

atthe beginning of time-intensive design experiences (such as term-long design projects orcapstone design courses) to help students develop a targeted understanding of important aspectsof the design processes and set intentions for how they will engage in their design projects.IntroductionAs we critically consider what we mean to accomplish in design teaching and learning, we candistinguish among the exposure to design practices and processes, intention to engage in designpractices and processes in specific ways, and the subsequent design behavior that changes thepractice and process.The goal of this paper is to understand engineering student design intent. We build on a long-term research program in which we have used research results from

Conference Session

Idea Generation and Creativity in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keelin Siomha Leahy, University of Limerick; Seda Yilmaz, Iowa State University; Colleen M. Seifert, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan

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Design in Engineering Education

conceptual designs; 2) a case study of a long-term project by a professionaldesigner; and 3) analyses of award-winning products. Design Heuristics were identified throughanalysis of sketches showing transitions from one concept to another over time39. Each heuristicwas observed multiple design concepts, by multiple engineers and designers, and in solutions formultiple design problems. Accumulating evidence across studies resulted in 77 unique DesignHeuristics applicable to a wide variety of products. Past research has demonstrated theeffectiveness of the Design Heuristics tool in facilitating concept generation for engineeringstudents1, 2, 6, 7, 37, 38, 42, 43 and professionals39, 40.Research MethodThis paper investigated how engineering educators

Conference Session

Engineering Design in Pedagogy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Louis S. Nadelson, Boise State University; Patricia Pyke, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University; Anne Hay, Boise State University; Joshua Pfiester, Boise State University; Mark A. Emmet, Boise State University

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Design in Engineering Education, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

managing research projects and initiatives in STEM student success, K-12 engineering and integrated STEM programs. She earned a B.S.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.Janet Callahan, Boise State University Janet Callahan is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Engineering at Boise State University and a Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department. Dr. Callahan received her Ph.D. in Materials Science, her M.S. in Metallurgy and her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut. Her educational research interests include freshmen engineering programs

Conference Session

DEED Postcard Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ang Liu, University of New South Wales; Yuchen Wang, University of New South Wales; Yun Dai, University of Southern California

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #22073Customer Review-driven Function Formulation for Design EducationDr. Ang Liu, University of New South Wales Dr. Ang Liu is a senior lecturer at the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, AustraliaMr. Yuchen Wang, University of New South Wales Yuchen Wang is an undergraduate Aerospace Engineering student in University of New South Wales,Australia. He assists in engineering design education, meanwhile, his student off-class research focuses on space theme projects such as sun sensor and thermal controller.Dr. Yun Dai, University of Southern California Dr. Yun Dai is a

Conference Session

Making, Hacking, and Extracurricular Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

component of the university’s mission by hosting credit-awarding courses within the space.The research component of the university mission may be fulfilled by dedicating a significant amount ofresources to support faculty-led research projects. The service component might be met by supportingstudent clubs as well as ongoing programs where makerspace users design, fabricate, and implementsolutions that fulfill needs at the university. Examples of higher education makerspaces that contributeto the service component of the university’s mission include spaces that support Design for Americachapters or offer courses that include university service components.The scope of a higher education makerspace is classified using the following three parameters

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srujal Patel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Daniel P. Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

and motivate more adolescent learners topursue careers in Engineering. Recently multiple initiatives have been undertaken to raiseinterest in STEM education in the United States2, 3. Many of these initiatives are outreachprograms to engage high school students in projects which focus on cultivating their aptitude inSTEM related disciplines. Most of these programs appear to be focused more on Science orMathematics rather than on Engineering and Technology (besides the use of computers) 4. Evenin those rare K-12 outreach programs where Engineering is the primary area of focus, it isusually introduced through problems or activities related to the application fields of Robotics,Manufacturing, Computer-aided-design (CAD) etc. Most of these

Conference Session

Design Tools & Methodology II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josh Tenenberg, University of Washington, Tacoma

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Design in Engineering Education

carrying out design project work.There is nothing novel about portfolios, or the student use of them; they have been usedextensively in evaluating teaching17, student learning1,24, and for professional development7,14,15.The novelty here is in the purpose for which I require students to use portfolios in an InteractionDesign course: to tell the backstory of their design projects. Kees Dorst9, the design educator,researcher, and practitioner, emphasizes how this backstory characterizes expert design work:“When you design, you are actually creating two things in parallel: the design itself and the storybehind it. This story consists of all the choices you have made during your design project and thearguments that you used in making them. It is the

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Colin Campbell, TechnicalMastery.com Corp.; Steve Lambert, University of Waterloo

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Design in Engineering Education

throughdrought periods using the excess rainwater collected in wetter periods. Page 12.1539.2At the end of each case study, the students were presented with an Engineering Design ProcessSummary document, outlining the design steps they followed. The Summary document for theEWB case study is shown in Table 1. The students were encouraged to fill out a blank summaryform (available on-line at: http://design.uwaterloo.ca/cases/Drinking_Water/summary) whendoing their own design projects to emphasize the design process. 1. Needs Problem Statement: Provide drinking water to villagers in Mavukall Analysis: Order of Magnitude Calcs

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Santi, Colorado School of Mines

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Design in Engineering Education

develop these tools may be useful to other specialty engineering disciplines, suchas mining, petroleum, geophysical, environmental, metallurgical, nuclear, andmaterials/ceramics, to name a few. Tools include general engineering design skills such as problem solving techniques,discipline-specific writing skills, project management techniques, and use of scientific principlesto solve typical geological engineering problems. Numerical tools include optimization methods(differentiation, Langrangian multiplier, and linear programming), economic analysis (withexamples different from the “machinery purchase and depreciation” models usually given), andstatistics. Analytical tools include reliability and failure analysis, fault trees, risk

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Student Empathy & Human-centered Design

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehwish Butt, University of Alberta; Alyona Sharunova, University of Alberta; Ahmed Jawad Qureshi, University of Alberta

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Design in Engineering Education

of industrial studies traced the design processcommonalities between engineering disciplines across a broad spectrum of industries [5-7].These studies identified a six-stage transdisciplinary design process, which is widely acceptedand applicable across engineering disciplines. The six stages are Planning, ConceptDevelopment, System-Level Design, Detail Design, Implementation and Testing, andProduction. In light of current transdisciplinary design practices in the industry, Ertas [8]identifies challenges currently faced by engineering education and suggests responding to thesechanges by introducing transdisciplinary engineering design education. This paper is part of an empirical research project carried out at the Engineering Faculty at

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division: Postcard and Student Essays

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malini Josiam, University of Texas, Austin; Anita Patrick, University of Texas, Austin; Madison E. Andrews, University of Texas, Austin; Maura J. Borrego, University of Texas, Austin

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Design in Engineering Education

set-up of the spaces vary greatly between locations, agrowing number of universities have shifted from more traditional machine shop equipmenttowards digital design and rapid manufacturing tools (Wilczynski, 2015). These technologies areavailable to students through their coursework, their participation in certain extracurricularactivities, their status as an engineering student, or simply through their university enrollment.Students visit the Makerspaces for academic, personal, and extracurricular projects (Ali et al.2016; Wilczynski, Zinter & Wilen 2016). Since its establishment at the University of Texas atAustin in 2014, more than 30 courses offered by the university have included course projects thatprompt students to utilize the

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noe Vargas Hernandez, The University of Texas at El Paso; Jose Davila, University of Texas, El Paso

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Design in Engineering Education

by exposing the students to open ended projects that can develop theirdesign skills. From this we can conclude that the three main pedagogical components of asuccessful educational design experience are: the design skills, the design methods andthe design projects. On one hand, the individual design skills must be properly developedin the student prior to the project experience, making it an overwhelming challenge. Onthe other hand the design methodologies can be difficult to implement pedagogically,therefore the student struggles to learn, and even more important, to embrace suchmethodologies.We present an approach to design engineering teaching through four main steps: First,define the desired knowledge and skills to be acquired by the