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Producibility and Future Artifacts: Students Considering Manufacturing Lightsabers, Magic Wands, and Other Fantastical Products

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Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 7 Design Mental Frameworks

Page Count

17

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41644

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/41644

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268

Paper Authors

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Micah Lande South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Micah Lande, PhD is an Assistant Professor and E.R. Stensaas Chair for Engineering Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. Dr. Lande directs the Holistic Engineering Lab & Observatory. He teaches human-centered engineering design, design thinking, and design innovation courses. Dr. Lande researches how technical and non-technical people learn and apply design thinking and making processes to their work. He is interested in the intersection of designerly epistemic identities and vocational pathways. Dr. Lande received his B.S. in Engineering (Product Design), M.A. in Education (Learning, Design and Technology) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Design Education) from Stanford University.

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Jarod White South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Jarod recently graduated B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from SD Mines. While at mines Jarod participated in undergrad research related to engineering education with Dr. Micah Lande in the HELLO Lab.

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Abstract

Engineers often make great entrepreneurs. This is because they are to rapidly prototype and design products for any number of markets. Although most engineers have the aptitude to directly influence the economy, they often need training with business ideas. The idea of the triple constraint is integral in the business and manufacturing worlds. This is the idea where production can happen with the features of fast, good, or cheap (time, scope, cost); one is optimized, the second constrained, the third left to be. A different but similar concept are the design ideas of feasibility (technological capabilities), viability (profitable), and desirability (do people want it). In any basic conversation one may begin to link the design concepts (design triad) and iron triangle.

This exploratory research project introduces a class implementation of a future-oriented redesign project in a design for manufacturing (DFM) course. The ideas of the triple constraint and design triad are used to review how junior level engineering students design and think about future products. Research was geared toward the outcomes students produced using basic design for manufacture concepts and how they thought about future products based in a coupling of design and business ideas. The artifacts allowed for a dive into how engineering students conceive the future and their understanding of what is currently possible, soon to be so, and incredibly far off.

Lande, M., & White, J. (2022, August), Producibility and Future Artifacts: Students Considering Manufacturing Lightsabers, Magic Wands, and Other Fantastical Products Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41644

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