Preparing Globally and Socially Conscious Engineers: International and Human-Centered Design Freshman Projects and Activities
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-College Sophomore |
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Community-based Service Learning Engineering Education Research General Engineering, Engineering Science |
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Reference - Educational Research Paper |
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Audio |
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JANIS TERPENNY JENNIFER MULLIN JENNY LO RICHARD GOFF VINOD LOHANI |
| Description: | Int. J. Engng Ed. Vol. 24, No. 2, 2008, 2, p. pp. 409±419. Special issue on Design and Engineering Education in a Flat World. Abstract: "In recent years, a number of innovative activities involving early design/hands on experiences have been introduced into first and second semester freshman courses at Virginia Tech. The objective is to excite freshmen about the engineering profession and to provide early exposure to topics essential to their preparation as globally and socially conscious engineers. A number of initiatives including a sustainable development design project, study abroad presentations, and a world population activity have been implemented in the first course. In the second course, a design project with a focus on assistive technologies for third world countries has been implemented." |
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| Keywords: | freshman design freshman engineering First-year engineering human-centred design international design projects |
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Design and Engineering Education in a Flat World |
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(c) Design a system, component, or process |
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Conclusions: "The conclusions that can be drawn from this work are that student responses to international awareness and human centered activities in the first year are quite positive. These activities are contributing to the engagement of students of diverse backgrounds and interests. The engineer of 2020 requires an education that prepares students for life and work when they graduate. The continuation of the activities discussed seems assured. It appears from the results that giving students a choice of projects as well as creating a competition challenge seems to appeal to them. Clearly if students are engaged in their design projects they will produce better results and learn more. It also appears that interdisciplinary collaborative projects are well received by students. The challenge is finding enough other majors such as industrial design to collaborate with engineering teams. In the future more evaluation and comparisons will be made between human-centered projects and other projects." |
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| Publication Date: | March 2008 |
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Cross Platform |
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Not free |
| Download URL: | http://www.ijee.dit.ie/latestissues/Vol24-2/s23_ijee2052%5bcolour |
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IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
International Journal of Engineering Education
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