Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Facciol, University of Toronto; Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto; Jason Foster, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Engineering graduates are expected to contributeeffectively as members of multidisciplinary engineering design teams. Enabling this successrequires that engineering design educators develop an understanding of the diverse disciplinaryperspectives on engineering design and of the evolving perspectives of their students.This paper first describes the disciplinary perspectives that emerged as a result of somepreliminary research on engineering design education, and then describes the development of aninstrument for evaluating individual understandings of engineering design. Disciplinaryperspectives were explored through interviewing the instructors of four capstone design coursesin different engineering disciplines within a large engineering Faculty

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Pembridge, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

%) 20Interactions: Not surprisingly, given the emphasis on guiding and mentoring activities,interactions between faculty members and students occur frequently and are often interpersonal Page 15.1217.10in nature. One prominent form of interaction occurs through the administration of feedback tothe students. Feedback is frequently given through written comments on written and oral reports,in person, and through electronic means (Table 7). Other forms of interaction include formal andinformal interactions outside of class, as well as weekly conversations during and immediatelyaround class meetings (Table 8). Interactions that occur in the team’s lab or work

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Trivett, University of Prince Edward Island

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

graduates well.Despite the fact that the vast majority of engineers in practice today were trained in a Lecture-Based Learning (LBL) model, it is difficult to find literature expressing a view that LBL is thebest model for educating engineers. While this paper does not attempt to defend the status quo,it is an attempt to propose a conceptual framework for the engineering graduate. Engineering programs are typically some of the most tightly packed undergraduatedegrees in Canadian Universities, and are filled with a great number of required courses, givingstudents few options for exploring their personal lines of interest. In a four-year degree program,there is no room to put additional course requirements on students without moving to a