Learning to design: the continuum of engineering education

• Autores: M. Welch
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 23, no. 1, 2007, págs. 84-94
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which curriculum initiatives in school-based design and technology education and undergraduate engineering education are converging in their intent to provide students with `designerly' ways of knowing. The literature that describes the nature of design and designing, the nature and purposes of design and technology education in elementary and secondary schools, and the place of design in engineering education serves to frame the second part of the paper. This will describe two curriculum initiatives, one elementary and one secondary, which introduce a powerful pedagogy for teaching, learning and assessment in technology education centred on both designing and making products. The resonance of this pedagogy with contemporary trends in engineering education are explored and discussed in the third and final section of the paper. Overall, the paper speculates on the question: Is design education for engineering a continuum?