information The ability to understand the interrelatedness of design and manufacture The ability to apply tolerancing concepts to an assembly The ability to inspect and rework to meet a tolerance specification The ability to evaluate acceptable overall quality The ability to work closely in a resource-limited environment Experience the challenges and complexity of manufacturingWhile it could be argued that these learning objectives are manufacturing or mechanical engineering-specific, at Cal Poly, we strongly believe all engineering graduates should have practical, hands-onexperience with fabrication techniques. ABET assessment criteria suggest students would benefitfrom experience with concepts such as tolerancing, creating
/failures and creative performance metrics. Our results show that while the correlationbetween number of attempts (i.e., failure rate) and creative performance was statisticallysignificant, the relationship was weak. In addition to these and other quantitative results, thisresearch has value for engineering educators as a case study in the evolution, scaling, andtransfer of face-to-face experiential learning tasks to global online learning environments.1. IntroductionThe relationship between creativity and failure appears to be a complex one, with scholarsdebating the positive and negative effects of failure on the quality and the quantity of creativeoutcomes6, 7, 12, 13. Within this context, the concept of Intelligent Fast Failure (IFF
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, J.J. Ebers Electron Devices Society Award and the IEEE FellowAward. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He has published nearly 300 papers withstudents and colleagues, contributed chapters to 5 books and holds 27 U.S. Patents. Prior to joining Lehigh, he worked atthe Westinghouse Electric Corporation on advanced integrated circuits for systems applications. He has takensabbaticals as a Visiting Fulbright Professor at Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, a Visiting Scientist at the U.S. NavalResearch Laboratory and as a Program Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation. He has graduated 33 Ph.D.’s,and 61 M.S students. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional