DESIGN DAYS BOOT CAMP: ENHANCING STUDENT MOTIVATION TO START THINKING IN ENGINEERING DESIGN TERMS IN THE FIRST YEAR
DESIGN DAYS BOOT CAMP: ENHANCING STUDENT MOTIVATION TO START THINKING IN ENGINEERING DESIGN TERMS IN THE FIRST YEAR
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设计日训练营：增强学生第一年开始思考工程设计术语的动力
DOI：
10.24908/pceea.v0i0.9759
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2018
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M. Gorbet
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Igor Ivkovic;Thomas L. Willett;M. Borland;M. Gorbet
工程设计是工程教育的核心内容。学生可能不会很早就意识到工程设计的重要性，尤其是在学术学习的第一学期。在本文中，我们提出了一种激励学生尽早思考工程设计的方法，即在第一个学期开始时。这种方法需要组织一个沉浸式设计训练营——“设计日”——取代学期前两天的讲座。在这两天里，学生被分成随机分配的小组，并提供应对设计挑战的规范。作为挑战的一部分，学生们被激励在尝试解决问题之前充分理解问题，指导他们遵循设计过程并应用迭代设计，并要求记录他们的设计及其基本原理。所提出的方法已于 2016 年秋季成功应用。该方法将在 2017 年秋季再次应用，并根据学生反馈进行细微修改。
Engineering design is a core aspect of engineering education. Students might not appreciate the importance of engineering design early on, especially in the first term of their academic study. In this paper, we propose an approach for motivating students to think early about engineering design, namely at the start of their first academic term. The approach entails organizing an immersive design boot camp –“Design Days” – that replaces lectures for the first two days of the term. During the two days, students are divided into randomly assigned teams, and provided specifications to work on a design challenge. As part of the challenge, students are incentivized to fully understand the problem before attempting to solve it, instructed to follow a design process and apply iterative design, and asked to document their design and its rationale. The proposed method was successfully applied in Fall 2016. The approach will be applied again in Fall 2017 with minor modifications based on student feedback.