scholarly journals Project MESA: Impact of a student-led service learning project on cultural intelligence and socially engaged design

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Brennan Burrows ◽  
Aashna Pradhan ◽  
Vedhika Raghunathan ◽  
Neha Gogineni ◽  
Giuliana Motta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Cultural Intelligence ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Cervical Cancer Incidence ◽  
Engineering Design Process ◽  
Formative Experience ◽  
High Cervical ◽  
Learning Team

The intersection of service learning and cultural intelligence has been established a way for engineering students to gain vital formative experience and skills. Project MESA (Making Examinations Safe and Accessible) is a service learning team founded to address the barriers to gynecological screenings in Nicaragua, which are believed to contribute to high cervical cancer incidence. Through this study, the service learning approach of the project is evaluated in its effectiveness in developing cultural intelligence and promoting mastery of the socially engaged design process through team participation. Results showed that students who had greater measures of sentiment for Project MESA displayed higher cultural intelligence. Through a qualitative review, students were also able to identify the major components of socially engaged design. Students who participated in Project MESA also reported that their approach to the engineering design process was enhanced by service learning. Furthermore, students responded to what they felt they were able to gain from participation in the project. A number of themes were identified, the most common of which were prototyping, cultural sensitivity, and partner communications.  

How Engineering Design Students’ Creative Preferences and Cognitive Styles Impact Their Concept Generation and Screening

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Heininger ◽  
Hong-En Chen ◽  
Kathryn Jablokow ◽  
Scarlett R. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Risk Tolerance ◽  
Concept Generation ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Engineering Design Process ◽  
Individual Traits ◽  
The Impact

The flow of creative ideas throughout the engineering design process is essential for innovation. However, few studies have examined how individual traits affect problem-solving behaviors in an engineering design setting. Understanding these behaviors will enable us to guide individuals during the idea generation and concept screening phases of the engineering design process and help support the flow of creative ideas through this process. As a first step towards understanding these behaviors, we conducted an exploratory study with 19 undergraduate engineering students to examine the impact of individual traits, using the Preferences for Creativity Scale (PCS) and Kirton’s Adaption-Innovation inventory (KAI), on the creativity of the ideas generated and selected for an engineering design task. The ideas were rated for their creativity, quality, and originality using Amabile’s consensual assessment technique. Our results show that the PCS was able to predict students’ propensity for creative concept screening, accounting for 74% of the variation in the model. Specifically, team centrality and influence and risk tolerance significantly contributed to the model. However, PCS was unable to predict idea generation abilities. On the other hand, cognitive style, as measured by KAI, predicted the generation of creative and original ideas, as well as one’s propensity for quality concept screening, although the effect sizes were small. Our results provide insights into individual factors impacting undergraduate engineering students’ idea generation and selection.

Lost in Translation: Examining the Complex Relationship Between Prototyping and Communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 143 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandeep Krishnakumar ◽  
Catherine Berdanier ◽  
Christopher McComb ◽  
Jessica Menold
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Rhetorical Patterns ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Engineering Design Process ◽  
Novice Designers ◽  
Design Ideas ◽  
Lost In Translation

Abstract Prototyping plays a pivotal role in the engineering design process. Prototypes represent physical or digital manifestations of design ideas, and as such act as effective communication tools for designers. While the benefits of prototyping are well-documented in research, the fundamental ways in which the construction of a prototype affects designers' reflection on and evaluation of their design outcomes and processes are not well understood. The relationships between prototypes, designers' communication strategies, and recollection of design processes is of particular interest in this work, as preliminary research suggests that novice designers tend to struggle to clearly articulate the decisions made during the design process. This work serves to extend prior work and build foundational knowledge by exploring the evaluation of design outcomes and decisions, and communication strategies used by novice designers during prototyping tasks. A controlled in situ study was conducted with 45 undergraduate engineering students. Results from qualitative analyses suggest that a number of rhetorical patterns emerged in students' communications, suggesting that a complicated relationship exists between prototyping and communication.

scholarly journals Integrating Service Learning in Engineering Clinics

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuf Mehta ◽  
Beena Sukumaran
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Service Learning Projects ◽  
Learning Projects

Rowan University College of Engineering’s innovative curriculum with the engineering Clinic sequence provides a unique opportunity to integrate service learning activities that increase student awareness of social equity, global issues, and stakeholder concerns as they pertain to engineering practice. In many curricula, case studies are presented in specialized courses, or as segments of a design course, but identification of stakeholder needs and views are not effectively included in the design process itself; hence, societal or environmental effects are reported at the end of the project rather than integrated as part of design considerations. Service learning projects, such as Hurricane Katrina Relief project, and EWB-USA projects present an ideal framework for incorporating social, cultural, and environmental considerations into the design process in a meaningful way. These activities help all students realize the contribution that non-technical disciplines and points of view can have in implementing more socially equitable and environmentally benign engineering designs. They also prepare students to participate intelligently in public debates on technical policy issues. In addition, engineering students also have the opportunity to work on research projects with emphasis on social entrepreneurships. The junior/senior clinics provide students with valuable experiences that give them advantages when applying for internships, scholarships, graduate school, and jobs after graduation. Often, Rowan undergraduate students can point to conference or journal publications, engineering reports, design and fabrication experience or field work as evidence of their exceptional preparation for the real world. This is supported by anecdotal evidence and internship surveys from employers. The engineering clinic sequence is an excellent platform for integrating service learning into the engineering curriculum. The purpose of this paper is to present the mechanism that was developed to provide service learning opportunities that include a larger student body that have varied levels of interest. In addition, this paper, curriculum features, such as engineering clinics at Rowan University’s College of Engineering is presented. In addition, a detailed description of the service learning projects conducted in these clinics and their impact on Rowan and the host community is explained.

Exploring the Engineering Design Process Through Computer-Aided Design and 3-D Printing

Science Scope ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 041 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Garafolo ◽  
Nidaa Makki ◽  
Katrina Halasa ◽  
Wondimu Ahmed ◽  
Kristin Koskey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Engineering Design Process ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Aided Design

Engineering for good: A case of community driven engineering innovation

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chinweike Eseonu ◽  
Martin A Cortes
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
First Year ◽  
Engineering Curriculum ◽  
Engineering Design Process ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Consideration

There is a culture of disengagement from social consideration in engineering disciplines. This means that first year engineering students, who arrive planning to change the world through engineering, lose this passion as they progress through the engineering curriculum. The community driven technology innovation and investment program described in this paper is an attempt to reverse this trend by fusing community engagement with the normal engineering design process. This approach differs from existing project or trip based approaches – outreach – because the focus is on local communities with which the university team forms a long-term partnership through weekly in-person meetings and community driven problem statements – engagement.

scholarly journals Challenging the engineering design process for the development of facial masks in the constraint of the COVID-19 pandemic

Procedia CIRP ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 660-665
Author(s):  
Giovanni Formentini ◽  
Núria Boix Rodríguez ◽  
Claudio Favi ◽  
Marco Marconi
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Engineering Design Process
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