Resumen de Unpacking capabilities underlying design (thinking) process

Rachel Dzombak, Sara L. Beckman

• Engineering graduates must know how to frame and solve non-routine problems. While design classes explicitly teach problemframing and solving, it is lacking throughout much of the rest of the engineering curriculum and is often relegated to capstoneclasses at the end of the students’ educational experience. This paper explores problem framing and solving through the lens ofexperiential learning theory. It captures core problem framing and solving approaches from critical, design and systems thinkingand concludes with a table of learning outcomes that might be drawn upon in designing an engineering curriculum that more fullydevelops the problem framing and solving capabilities of its students.