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Promoting productive disciplinary engagement in engineering design using a CAD tool

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Abstract

Engaging young students with the engineering design process and scaffolding the learning of effective design thinking skills is an ongoing endeavor for engineering education researchers. In this design and deployment paper, we describe the design of an innovative curricular material using a computer aided design (CAD) tool for promoting productive engagement with disciplinary practices of tradeoffs and design optimization. We present preliminary qualitative findings from our design based research study that indicate the effectiveness of our intervention and highlight ongoing as well as future work by our team to advance the community's understanding of how to effectively scaffold the learning of effective design thinking skills via technology as well as curricular materials.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICCE 2016 - 24th International Conference on Computers in Education
Subtitle of host publicationThink Global Act Local - Workshop Proceedings
EditorsWeiqin Chen, Thepchai Supnithi, Madhuri Mavinkurve, Tomoko Kojiri, Jie-Chi Yang, Sahana Murthy, Sridhar Iyer, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd Ayub, Weiqin Chen, Su Luan Wong
PublisherAsia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education
Pages383-388
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9789869401210
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event24th International Conference on Computers in Education - Workshop, ICCE 2016 - Mumbai, India
Duration: 28 Nov 20162 Dec 2016

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on Computers in Education - Workshop, ICCE 2016
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityMumbai
Period28/11/162/12/16

Keywords

  • Computer aided design
  • Design journal
  • Design thinking
  • Engineering design
  • Tradeoffs

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