REFLECTIONS ON ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION

Reflections on Software Engineering Education

The “engineering” focus in software engineering education leaves instructors vulnerable to several traps. It also misleads students as to SE’s essential human and social dimensions. In this paper we argue that there’s more to SE than engineering. A major challenge is to reconcile the engineering dimension with the human and social dimension.

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...

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...

Design and design centers in engineering education

Transformational Innovation: Reflections on How to Foster it in Engineering Education Systems

This paper describes the educators’ disposition that we believe is required for transformational innovation. Innovating in this domain relies on interrupting existing patterns. This interruption requires the conscious recognition of patterns through an active practice of self observation. Though self observation does not necessarily need a collective process, it is served by encountering the di...