An Experiential Learning Based Design Program in Rehabilitation Engineering

Experiential learning for Engineering Education

This paper presents elements of the experiential learning in engineering education through a real-life project case. The project included a team of university students from Hong Kong traveling to Sichuan, China and implementing various engineering systems from solar energy to e-learning systems for a reconstructed school in Sichuan, which was destroyed by the 5.12 Sichuan earthquake in 2008. So...

Designing an Experiential Learning Environment for Logistics and Systems Engineering

Systems engineering increasingly addresses the system lifecycle, as opposed to its more traditional role focusing on design and development. This new situation results in part from the recognition that upstream design and deployment decisions have potentially significant cost and performance implications post-deployment. For military systems, the role that typically addresses post-deployment is...

An Ontology Based Knowledge Experiential Learning Framework

Ontology’s are no longer just a means of relating or unfolding semantic operations instead it is firmly contained within the virtual world and technologies have unravelled its full semantic potentials. The contribution of knowledge management combined with different software applications calls for increasing pedagogical support for extending both ontology and the knowledge management environmen...

Learning by Design: Constructing Experiential Learning Programs

An innovative design program for engineering students.

Philip Jacob, is Program Development Coordinator, Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston,, Illinois. The Segal Design Institute in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University offers an innovative design course called Engineering Design and Communication (EDC). EDC is a required program for all engineering undergraduates and is generally taken in their fresh...