Rennick, C., & Li, E., & Lenover, M., & Blankespoor, W., & Bedi, S. (2022, August), Industry Hubs: Integrating Industry Perspectives in Design Education  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41430

\bibitem{asee_peer_41430}
  Rennick, C., \& Li, E., \& Lenover, M., \& Blankespoor, W., \& Bedi, S. (2022, August), \emph{Industry Hubs: Integrating Industry Perspectives in Design Education}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--41430

Christopher Rennick, Eugene Li, Michael Lenover, Wesley Blankespoor, and Sanjeev Bedi.  "Industry Hubs: Integrating Industry Perspectives in Design Education".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/41430 Internet.  01 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_41430}
  Christopher Rennick, Eugene Li, Michael Lenover, Wesley Blankespoor, and Sanjeev Bedi.
  "Industry Hubs: Integrating Industry Perspectives in Design Education".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/41430 Internet.  01 May, 2024

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AB  - The Engineering Ideas Clinic at the University of Waterloo started in 2015 to expand the inclusion of real-world, hands-on design activities across the entire Faculty of Engineering. In the first stage of this development, the Ideas Clinic focused on adding formative design experiences in the form of Engineering Design Days. These activities are 2-day long design-build-test sprints where students work in teams to design solutions to discipline-specific problems. These first-year activities focus on building students’ engineering design self-efficacy, and their knowledge of both the discipline, and of the process of designing. As we seek to expand our programming into second and third year, we have developed the concept of an “Industry Hub” as a way to deliberately incorporate the perspectives of industry in new activities. Including industry ensures that we are solving relevant problems and using tools/techniques/equipment that our students can expect to encounter in future careers in that domain. Furthermore, these hubs have shown to be an effective way to teach discipline specific skills in a relevant context, providing experiences to re-enforce abstract concepts. The Industry Hubs also serve as an avenue for emerging problems in industry to be explored.
An Industry Hub consists of experts from one or more companies within a single engineering sector who consult with the Ideas Clinic. Internally to the university, the Ideas Clinic team consists of relevant course instructor(s), graduate students, and undergraduate students employed with the Ideas Clinic during their cooperative work terms. This combined team of both academia and industry collaboration work together to design and implement activities which are relevant to both the curriculum and to the industrial sector. In this paper, we describe the concept of the Industry Hub in detail and ground the concept in a case study of our most mature partnership: the Brock Solutions Industrial Automation Hub. The Brock Solutions Industrial Automation Hub has been operating for more than 2 years and has led to the development of learning activities with implementations in both first and fourth year to more than 500 students. Overall, students have found activities developed within the hub valuable to their development as engineers, relevant to their discipline, and they have been well received by students in both first and fourth year.
AU  - Christopher Rennick
AU  - Eugene Li
AU  - Michael Lenover
AU  - Wesley Blankespoor
AU  - Sanjeev Bedi
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
DA  - 2022/08/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Industry Hubs: Integrating Industry Perspectives in Design Education
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--41430
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