. outreach officer. In a recent qualitative survey of students, faculty/deans, and The Australian respondent has also facilitated multipleindustry, students provided a characterization of their “ideal” workshops with SPEED and affiliate organizations and isprofessor.12 The top characteristic of professors that students currently enrolled in a doctoral program in Australia. Hisreported they were looking for was “inspiring/motivating”. research focus is related to engineering education. He isBeyond this, students sought an educator who was prepared SPEED’s current president.knowledgeable, including with practical real-world knowledge,as well as someone committed to teaching and helping, The
beennewly developed and briefly discussed with each case example of the class projects.Keywords: design education, engineering education, mechanical engineering1. Introduction Nowadays global technology leaders in industrial field emphasize the importance of seamlessProduct Lifecycle Management (PLM), an integrated, parametric-based approach to all aspectsof a product‟s life–from its design inception, through its manufacture, marketing, distributionand maintenance, and finally into recycling, disposal and reuse/sustainability [Stark, 2006]. In1949, Duetsch reported that mutual cooperation between students, rather than the competitioninvoking negative effects on the relation, could bring a positive independency between them sothat they might be
? These are the questions addressed in thispaper within the topic of engineering problem solving.A central topic for educators and researchers in engineering education and related fields isproblem solving. A theoretically and practically rich collection of scholarly work surrounds thistopic, from the perspectives of the learning sciences and engineering education. Within thediscipline of cognitive psychology a theoretically-based distinction developed between “experts”and “novices” that was underpinned by hypotheses about learners’ mental representations andhow those mental representations changed both locally, during the solution of specific problems,and distally, as a natural developmental unfolding of skill due largely to extensive
The Boeing Company. Over his 26 year Boeing career he has worked on various defense programs in many different engineering groups; starting as an NC Programmer on the B-2 program to F-22 in structures, systems, tooling and many other manufacturing related groups. This is where his composites experience originated and then onto developing and teaching programming, relational design and composite modeling. In the last ten years, Barry’s focus has been on the ”supply pipeline” of our future technical workforce, where he and a colleague partnered to build several composite certificate programs with the University of Washington (UW) through their Aero and Astro department. Two of the largest programs are: Aircraft