ROLE: An Engineering Design Expertise Continuum: Filling it in and Linking it to Education Practice

本项目将采用研究知情的方法来了解本科工程专业学生如何在工程设计研究中取得进展。它的目标是更好地理解和描述设计专业知识以及学习者获得该专业知识的成长过程。在这项工作中，研究者打算在三个领域进行研究：(1)设计专业知识连续体的发展，作为描述学习者获得专业知识的一种方式；(2)设计专业知识的研究将提供信息以帮助填充连续体；(3)通过使用连续体来提高和评估学生在合作（鸡舍）经验中对工程设计的学习，在设计教育中展示研究信息方法。这项研究应该有助于我们更好地理解学生如何在工程中学习设计原则，而连续体本身可能对工程学院教授设计的努力有很大的帮助。

This project will take a research-informed approach to understanding how undergraduate engineering majors progress in their studies of engineering design. Its goal is to better understand and describe design expertise and a learner's growth towards acquiring that expertise. In this work, the investigators intend to undertake research in three areas:(1) The development of a continuum of design expertise as a way of describing learners' growth toward acquiring expertise, (2) A study of design expertise that will provide information to help populate the continuum, and (3) The demonstration of a research-informed approach in design education through the use of the continuum to enhance and assess studentlearning of engineering design during their cooperative (coop) experiences. This research should help us to better understand how students learn design principles in engineering, and the continuum, itself, may be of great help to engineering faculty in their efforts to teach design.