Abstract
Design is an important concept that all engineering students should experience throughout their formal education. Providing students with a design experience each semester within a design “spine” affords an explicit opportunity unmatched by a single first-year or capstone experience. The purpose of this chapter is to describe a use-inspired design course offered to engineering students during the beginning of their second year at a large public university in the United States. A description of the place, history, context, project-based pedagogy, and course details are provided as a model example for those interested in offering such a course. These details are framed within the context of limited available credits within an engineering curriculum.
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This work is supported by The Polytechnic School engineering program within the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. The authors gratefully acknowledge all of the instructors who have taught the course and students who have taken the course. The ideas and feedback brought by these two groups of people are the reason the course has evolved into the worthwhile experience it is today.
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Carberry, A.R., Brunhaver, S.R. (2019). Second-Year Engineering Design: A Use-Inspired Approach. In: Schaefer, D., Coates, G., Eckert, C. (eds) Design Education Today. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17134-6_2
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