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

这个项目将采取研究知情的方法来了解本科工程专业的工程设计研究进展如何。 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。 在这项工作中，调查人员打算在三个领域进行研究：（1）设计专业知识的连续体的发展，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，和（3）通过使用连续体，以提高和评估学生在合作（coop）经验中学习工程设计的研究方法在设计教育中的示范。这项研究应该帮助我们更好地了解学生如何学习设计原则，在工程和连续体，本身，可能是很大的帮助，工程教师在他们的努力教设计。

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.