employ in the product development industry.Key practices that the instructors wanted to emphasize in the course included: research skills togain understanding of stakeholders, contexts, and constraints relevant to a problem; a focus onproblem finding & framing, rather than jumping right into a solution; developing divergentthinking to facilitate fluent and fruitful concept brainstorming; building communication skillsbeyond technical writing, to include visual communication and the importance of storytelling.This paper will share a review of literature relevant to factors surrounding a design mindset andhow a design mindset can impact design practice in the world of product development.Additionally, this paper will share benchmarking of best
influences design cognition more broadly.Prof. Patricia K. Sheridan, University of Toronto Professor Sheridan is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at the Troost Institute for Leadership Ed- ucation in Engineering (ILead) and the Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies in Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP), and is cross-appointed to the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. Prof. Sheridan teaches teamwork and leadership in the first-year corner- stone design courses and oversees the integration of teamwork and leadership learning into the upper-year courses. She previously designed an online team-based self- and peer-assessment system that was used in multiple
and insights for the participants to consider whenworking with their students. Each session also included hands-on curriculum design time dedicatedto writing specific components of the curriculum modules. The workshops culminated with asharing session during which teachers could provide one another with feedback and suggestions.At the end of the summer program, the curriculum modules were submitted to the curriculumdevelopment expert assigned to this RET project for review. The expert reviewed the modules toensure that they aligned with program goals and state/national standards, reflected best practices,and utilized active, problem-based learning strategies to foster learner interest, engagement, andachievement. Lastly, continuous