The Engineering Design Process and Design Challenges

The Engineering Design Process

The Engineering Design Process http://www.teachengineering.org/engrdesignprocess.php

Design Challenges In general, creating a design challenge is a way to initiate a project where students cycle through an entire design thinking process at least once. This way of using design thinking differs from interjecting individual elements of a process, like prototyping or brainstorming into a traditional unit.

Design Challenges The primary purpose of design challenge is to set the stage for empathy. It gives students direction and helps instructors coordinate empathy experiences that contain human needs.

Design Challenges 3 Types Small – 1 to 2 hour challenges that cycle students through the process Medium – 1 to 10 day challenges with student teams engaging in multiple cycles that focus on a few topics usually within one discipline Large – Multiple week projects where student teams work on projects that typically span multiple disciplines Design Challenge Information and guidance for developing them can be found at https://dschool.stanford.edu/groups/k12/wiki/613e8/