Developing a Design Tool for Solution Mapping: Translating Practitioners’ Strategies to Support Student Engineers
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Tampa, Florida
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June 15, 2019
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June 15, 2019
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June 19, 2019
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Design in Engineering Education Division: Design Methodology
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Design in Engineering Education
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16
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--32631
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https://peer.asee.org/32631
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422
Paper Authors
Jin Woo Lee University of Michigan
Jin Woo Lee received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Jin's research focuses on studying and developing design strategies, particularly in problem definition and concept generation.
Shanna R. Daly
University of Michigan
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Shanna Daly is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University.
Aileen Huang-Saad Northeastern University
In February 2021 Dr. Huang-Saad joined the Bioengineering faculty at Northeastern University and became the Director
of Life Sciences and Engineering Programs at The Roux Institute (Portland, Maine). Dr. Huang-Saad has a fourteen-
year history of bringi
Colleen M. Seifert University of Michigan
Colleen M. Seifert is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in psychology at Yale University. She was an ASEE postdoctoral fellow at the University of California – San Diego and the Navy Personnel Research Development Center. Her research interests center on learning, memory, and creativity.
Abstract
Design processes often start with defining a problem and diverging to identify possible solutions; however, some design processes start with technologies and diverge to consider potential problems that these technologies can solve. In this latter process, engineers ‘match’ their technologies to problems, a term we define as “solution mapping.” However, limited design strategies are available to support solution mapping. To fill this gap, we collected data from engineering practitioners on their processes for solution mapping and translated those findings to a shareable design tool for student engineers. In this paper, we describe this process, including our summary of our findings from interviews with practicing engineers who successfully identified applications for technologies they developed, and how patterns from data analysis were translated into a design tool. We also include data from pilot testing with the tool and how the pilot tests were used to refine the tool. Through this process, we were able to develop and refine an empirically-based design tool to aid solution mapping.
Lee, J. W., & Daly, S. R., & Huang-Saad, A., & Seifert, C. M. (2019, June), Developing a Design Tool for Solution Mapping: Translating Practitioners’ Strategies to Support Student Engineers Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--32631
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