ENGINEERING DESIGN COMPETENCY: PERCEIVED BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION

Engineering design education and rehabilitation engineering.

My academic career of more than 50 years has been committed to involving undergraduate and graduate students in the engineering design process [1]. A variety of experiences—childhood model making, vocational high school education, draftsman jobs, and military assignments during World War II—have convinced me that design is best learned by the necessity of reaching wellestablished and defined de...

Design and design centers in engineering education

Network Based Engineering Design Education

In graduate class, education on shortening the lead-time in designing and developing products by various computer-aided systems in a network and applying virtual engineering was carried out. To accomplish such a purpose, network based education about engineering design was applied. Some laboratories consisting of various computer-aided systems were constructed and connected by a network. A samp...

Probabilistic design: The future of rock engineering

A brief background to the development of the rock engineering design process is given, showing that since the development of the science of mathematics, deterministic methods have been used to perform various calculations. The variability of rock properties and support characteristics have always been known. However, they were not explicitly used in design but compensated for by the use of a sa...

Integrated Design Engineering Education within Electrical and Computer Engineering

The paper presents a few simple approaches that have been used to integrate design experiences into regular technical courses. In addition, a possible future initiative to link material from different technical courses through a design experience is outlined. Finally, thoughts on the need to further integrate academic and “work experience” requirements to become a professional engineer are pres...