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Teaching Design to Freshmen: Style and Content
Author(s) -
Dym Clive L.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.1994.tb00123.x
Subject(s) - deliverable , context (archaeology) , jury , style (visual arts) , competition (biology) , engineering , engineering management , engineering ethics , political science , systems engineering , paleontology , ecology , archaeology , history , law , biology
This paper describe a freshman course in engineering design that stresses the open‐ended and ill‐structured nature of design in a project‐based context. The projects are chosen in part for their social context and utility. The projects are supplemented by lectures on design methodology and other topics related to engineering practice. Among the deliverables required of the students are proposals, progress reports, and written and oral presentations—the latter to an external design jury as part of a design competition.