The Engineering Design Process and Design Challenges

1. The Engineering Design Process and Design Challenges

2. The Engineering Design Process

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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/