Conference Session

Design for Society and the Environment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Pappas; Ronald Kander, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

anddevelopment. We will require students to maintain design journals throughout the three-year design course sequence, documenting not only the progress they make on theirdesign projects, but as importantly, the journals will serve to describe the evolution of Page 13.1131.16students’ thinking processes and the development of an “individual design process” aswell as a “collaborative design process.” Faculty will read and evaluate students’ designjournals each semester, respond in writing and confer with students. The JMU Center for Assessment and Research Studies is currently assisting in thedevelopment of engineering design-specific qualitative and