Are We Evolving “Strictured” Design Engineers?
- Publisher:
- IASDR2015 INTERPLAY
- Publication Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Citation:
- IASDR2015 INTERPLAY Proceedings, 2015, pp. 1129 - 1144
- Issue Date:
- 2015-11-02
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This discussion paper is meant to stimulate debate among design engineering colleagues with a view towards reimagining how design engineering students may evolve their experiential knowledge with respect to how product designs (things) work, and more importantly how they may creatively develop new product designs (things) that should work. After introducing and framing the background of this paper the discussion turns toward the core issues found within the way design engineering problems are “typically” contextualised and framed in relation to “expected” solutions. In short the problem is the problem. This in turn shapes the nature of how students currently practice and hone their problem-solving skills. Subsequent discussions turn towards both the strengths and limitations of the experiential knowledge. It is argued that if we reimagine and introduce new perspectives and heuristics, our future design engineers may develop more creative and more considered designs. While the core intent of this paper is to initiate discussion on this, we will show an exemplar of how this has worked in a University setting at the University of Technology Sydney. We will contend this may also work within other institutions as well.
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