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Creating Social Value via Undergraduate Design Thinking Course with K-12 STEM Education Outreach in Various Community Settings
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Elaissa T. Hardy; Sara Ivey Fulmer; Joseph M. Le Doux; Wilbur A. Lam – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2022
BME HealthReach is an educational outreach program where undergraduate BME students participate in an out-of-class design thinking course to create and teach interactive STEM activities to K-12 students, where children with chronic illnesses are the primary clients. We detail research that seeks to answer the following: (1) what impact does this…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Design, Systems Approach, Elementary Secondary Education
Systems Thinking in Engineering Design: Differences in Expert vs. Novice and Relationship to Personality Traits
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Yuzhen Luo – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Systems thinking is the ability to see the big picture and the related elements when designing, and how these relationships form the big picture. In engineering design, systems thinking is valuable to both industry, as well as engineering education. As such, it creates opportunities for researchers to better understand systems thinking of both…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Thinking Skills, Systems Approach, College Freshmen
How Students Engage in Biomimicry
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Qureshi, Saad – Journal of Biological Education, 2022
Biomimicry is a useful method to develop students' skills, such as design and systems thinking, particularly when complemented with inquiry-based learning. The research seeks to uncover how students engage in the biomimicry process and what types of designs they produce to reveal insights that could assist educators in teaching biomimicry. A study…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Biomedicine, Engineering
Decision Making and Systems Thinking: Educational Issues
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Yurtseven, M. Kudret; Buchanan, Walter W. – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Decision making in most universities is taught within the conventional OR/MS (Operations Research/Management Science) paradigm. This paradigm is known to be "hard" since it is consisted of mathematical tools, and normally suitable for solving structured problems. In complex situations the conventional OR/MS paradigm proves to be…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Models, Industrial Education, Engineering Education
Infusion of Emerging Technologies and New Teaching Methods into the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum at the City College of New York
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Delale, Feridun; Liaw, Benjamin M.; Jiji, Latif M.; Voiculescu, Ioana; Yu, Honghui – Advances in Engineering Education, 2011
From October 2003 to April 2008 a systemic reform of the Mechanical Engineering program at The City College of New York was undertaken with the goal of incorporating emerging technologies (such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), intelligent systems) and new teaching methodologies (such as project based…
Descriptors: Engineering, Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, College Curriculum
A Systems Approach for Developing Technological Literacy
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Frank, Moti – Journal of Technology Education, 2005
In order to examine the implications of applying a teaching strategy that integrates a systems approach and project-based learning (PBL), it was implemented in two courses. The objective of the first course was to train preservice teachers to teach the subject of "Science and Technology to All" (mandatory subject in all of Israel's…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Technological Literacy, Engineering, Foreign Countries