Description
An increase in focus on design thinking in the engineering community and design education has led to innovative outcomes. A part of the design thinking education comes from the goals and teaching methods of instructors. From a given dataset of design reviews two different courses were evaluated: industrial design and mechanical engineering. This work analyzes how instructor interactions with individuals or teams fulfill course outcomes. From a discussion of the data analysis it is suggested that industrial designers focus on the passion of the product design while mechanical engineers focus on the functionality and completeness of the design. The ideological approach in each disciplinary course merge ideology of courses such as industrial design into course such as mechanical engineering. The design thinking push hopes to build future innovators, preparing students for the open-endedness of real world problems.
Keywords
design reviews, design coaching, designerly thinking, engineering thinking
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DOI
10.5703/1288284315932
Disciplinary Discourse in Design Reviews: Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering Courses
An increase in focus on design thinking in the engineering community and design education has led to innovative outcomes. A part of the design thinking education comes from the goals and teaching methods of instructors. From a given dataset of design reviews two different courses were evaluated: industrial design and mechanical engineering. This work analyzes how instructor interactions with individuals or teams fulfill course outcomes. From a discussion of the data analysis it is suggested that industrial designers focus on the passion of the product design while mechanical engineers focus on the functionality and completeness of the design. The ideological approach in each disciplinary course merge ideology of courses such as industrial design into course such as mechanical engineering. The design thinking push hopes to build future innovators, preparing students for the open-endedness of real world problems.
Comments
Conference presentations were developed into a book chapter that was published in “Analyzing Design Review Conversations,” edited by Robin S. Adams and Junaid A. Siddiqui (2016, Purdue University Press), which can be found here:http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/titles/analyzing-design-review-conversations.