MENU
  • ASEE Logo
  • Login Join Give
    Give
    ASEE Donations...
    Classified Volunteer
  • Join
    Login
    Give
    Give
    ASEE Donations...
    Classified
About
  • Overview
    • Mission, Vision, Goals
    • Public Policy Statements
    • Constitution
    • Bylaws
    • Organizational Structure
    • Investment Policy
    • Financial Policy
  • Our History
  • Staff Contacts
  • Leadership
    • Board Of Directors
    • Academy Of Fellows
    • Past Board Members
    • Advisory Committees
    • Representatives to External Organizations
    • Executive Director's Message
    • Meeting Minutes
  • Volunteer
  • Careers at ASEE
  • Privacy Statement
I Am A...
  • Member
      Login Required
    • Your Member Page
    • Membership Directory
    • Volunteer for a Committee
    • Financials
    • No Login Required
    • Awards
    • Divisions, Fellows, and Campus Reps
    • Sections and Zones
    • Resources
  • Prospective Individual/Organizational Member
    • About ASEE
    • Individual Membership
    • Institutional Membership
    • Major Activities
  • Donor
  • Prospective Partner or Sponsor
  • Advertiser
  • Fellowship Seeker
    • About Fellowships
    • High School
    • Undergraduate
    • Graduate
    • Post-Doctoral
    • Other Programs
Events
  • Conferences and Meetings
    • Annual Conference & Exposition
    • Section & Zone Meetings
  • Council Events
    • Conference for Industry and
      Education Collaboration (CIEC)
    • Engineering Deans Institute (EDI)
    • Engineering Research Council (ERC)
    • Engineering Technology Leaders Institute (ETLI)
    • EDC Public Policy Colloquium (PPC)
  • Featured Events
    • Frontiers in Education
    • NETI
    • CoNECD
    • First Year Engineering Experience
  • Future Conference Dates
Publications
  • News
    • Newsletters
    • eGFI
    • Division Publications
  • Journals and Conference Papers
    • Overview
    • Journal of Engineering Education
    • Advances in Engineering Education
    • Conference Proceedings
    • Section Proceedings
    • Zone Proceedings
    • PEER
    • Plagiarism
  • Monographs and Reports
  • Prism Magazine
  • Data
    • Profiles of E&ET Colleges
    • Case Study Series: Engineering-Enhanced Liberal Education
Impact
  • Public Policy Statements
  • Data Analysis
  • Annual Reports
  • Diversity
    • About Diversity
    • Diversity Statement
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
    • Dean's Diversity Website
Education & Careers
  • Academic Job Opportunities
  • Continuing Education
    • Webinars
    • Courses and Workshops
      • NETI
      • Smart Start
      • Streamlined Course Design
  • Engineering Education Research and Innovation
    • Engineering Education Community Resource
  • PreK-12
    • eGFI Teachers
    • eGFI Students
Calendar
2019 Engineering Research Council (ERC)
March 11 - 13, 2019
Arlington, VA
See More....
2019 Engineering Deans Institute (EDI)
April 7 - 10, 2019
Hill Country, TX
See More....
The Collaborative Networkfor Engineering andComputing Diversity(CoNECD)
April 14 - 17, 2019
Crystal City, VA
See More....
2019 Annual Conference
June 15 - 19, 2019
Tampa, Florida
See More....
Previous Next
  • International Forum
    • Past Forums
  • Annual Conference 2018
    • Conference Overview
    • Travel
    • Program Schedule
    • Registration
    • Sponsors & Exhibitors
    • Papers Management
  • 2017 Global Colloquium
  • Pre K-12 Workshop
    • Call for Proposals
    • Registration
    • Housing
    • Sponsors
    • Program Schedule
    • Past Conferences
  • STEP Grantees Meeting
  • Annual Conference
    • Past Conferences
  • International Forum
    • Past Forums
  • Annual Conference 2018
    • Conference Overview
    • Travel
    • Program Schedule
    • Registration
    • Sponsors & Exhibitors
    • Papers Management
  • 2017 Global Colloquium
  • Pre K-12 Workshop
    • Call for Proposals
    • Registration
    • Housing
    • Sponsors
    • Program Schedule
    • Past Conferences
  • STEP Grantees Meeting
  • Annual Conference
    • Past Conferences

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

The 'Structured' Engineering Design Notebook: A New Tool for Design Thinking within a Studio Design Course

Presented at The BEST InDEED

Scholars have argued that supporting engineering students in the development of a design thinking mindset is a promising approach to address better preparation of students for their future professions. Blank notebooks are recommended as a best practice for undergraduate engineering educators to use for both instructional and assessment purposes. However, for an engineering student engaging in the complex work of design for the first time, knowing how to plan and carry out a design project and how to document the process in a blank book can be a daunting task. The blank book has the potential to be re-envisioned as a structured design notebook, a new tool for illuminating the processes of engineering design and project management while providing scaffolds for design thinking. The research question was: How does a new type of engineering design notebook--structured with prompts, tasks, and scaffolds--support college students as they engage in design thinking within an engineering studio design course?

The purpose of this qualitative research study was to understand the role of a structured engineering design notebook within a bioengineering studio design course offered at an urban public university. In this course, teams comprised of both undergraduate and graduate students designed, prototyped, and presented innovative neural engineering devices in a competitive environment. This qualitative case study presents an in-depth analysis of one student team comprised of three students.

This specific case builds an understanding of how a structured engineering design notebook may be employed in an engineering design course as a tool to support students' engagement in design thinking and design-related epistemic practices of engineering. Design principles that emerged from the data are presented. The engineering design notebook at the focus of this research study has the potential to be used in other settings; the notebook will eventually be published and made available to instructors and students.

Authors
  1. Ms. Kristen Clapper Bergsman University of Washington [biography]

    Kristen Clapper Bergsman is the Engineering Education Research Manager at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering at the University of Washington, where she is also a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in Learning Sciences and Human Development. Previously, Kristen worked as an educational consultant offering support in curriculum design and publication. She received her M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction (Science Education) from the University of Washington.

Online preview: this file is waiting to be converted into a web-viewable format...

Download paper (1.68 MB)

Are you a researcher? Would you like to cite this paper? Visit the ASEE document repository at peer.asee.org for more tools and easy citations.

» Download paper

« View session


  • Follow Us
  • twitter
  • facebook
  • youtube
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • 1818 N Street N.W. Suite 600, Washington DC 20036

  • Telephone: 202.331.3500 | Fax: 202.265.8504

  • © 2018 Copyright: ASEE.org All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.