Engineering Design Challenges of the Lunar Lander

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Marien
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Lunar Lander ◽  
Design Challenges

STEM Gives Meaning to Mathematics

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 422-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas J. Hefty
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Design Challenges

Applying mathematics during engineering design challenges can help children develop critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills.

Balancing Fun and Learning in a Serious Game Design

Gamification ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 452-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Franzwa ◽  
Ying Tang ◽  
Aaron Johnson ◽  
Talbot Bielefeldt
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Guidance System ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Design Challenges ◽  
Narrative Learning

This article presents the underlying philosophy of Sustain City, an educational serious game system that engages students, particularly prospective and beginning science and engineering students, in a series of engineering design challenges. Various strategies implemented in Sustain City for achieving a balance of fun and learning are discussed, including narrative-learning synthesis, supplementing the player's actions with feedback, and the development of a sufficient guidance system. The evaluation of Sustain City deployment is also presented. The assessment confirms the values of the serious games in promoting students' interests and learning in STEM fields.

Arctic Pipeline Design Challenges and Current Practices: Ice Scour

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Konuk
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Alternative Analysis ◽  
Offshore Pipelines ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Pipeline Design ◽  
Current Engineering ◽  
Design Challenges ◽  
Current Practices

Analysis methods used for the design of offshore pipelines against ice scour are reviewed. Implications and impact of their limitations on pipeline design are discussed. Alternative analysis methods are proposed to address the shortcomings of the current engineering design and analysis practices.

Designettes: New Approaches to Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Education

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassandra Telenko ◽  
Bradley Camburn ◽  
Katja Hölttä-Otto ◽  
Kristin Wood ◽  
Kevin Otto
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Junior College ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Concept Generation ◽  
Design Learning ◽  
Engineering Design Education ◽  
Junior College Students ◽  
Integrate Design ◽  
Design Challenges

Teaching of design and other fundamental topics in engineering is often isolated to dedicated courses. Thus, an opportunity is missed to foster a culture of engineering design and multidisciplinary problem solving throughout the curriculum. Designettes, defined as brief, vignette-like design challenges, exploit opportunities to integrate design learning experiences in class, across courses, across terms, and across disciplines. When courses join together in a designette, a multidisciplinary learning activity occurs, demonstrating how different subjects are integrated and applied to open-ended problems and grand challenges. Designettes help foster a culture of design, and enables the introduction of multidisciplinary design challenges across all core courses in each semester. These challenges combine problem clarification, concept generation and prototyping with subject content from curricula such as biology, thermodynamics, differential equations, and software with controls. This paper investigates the use of single and multidisciplinary designettes at SUTD. From pre- and post-surveys of junior college students, designettes were found to increase students’ awareness of applications and learning of content. From 321 third-semester students across six cohorts, designettes were found to increase students’ self-perceptions of their ability to solve multidisciplinary problems.

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