Defining, Teaching, and Assessing Engineering Design Skills

Authors

Nikos J. Mourtos, San Jose State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

January 2012

Publication Title

International Journal for Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education

Volume

2

Issue Number

1

First Page

14

Last Page

30

Abstract

The paper discusses a systematic approach for defining, teaching, and assessing engineering design skills. Although the examples presented in the paper are from the field of aerospace engineering, the principles apply to engineering design in general. What makes the teaching of engineering design particularly challenging is that the necessary skills and attributes are both technical and non-technical and come from the cognitive as well as the affective domains. Each set of skills requires a different approach to teach and assess. Implementing a variety of approaches for a number of years at SJSU has shown that it is just as necessary to teach affective skills, as it is to teach cognitive skills. As one might expect, each set of skills presents its own challenges.

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Recommended Citation

Nikos J. Mourtos. "Defining, Teaching, and Assessing Engineering Design Skills" International Journal for Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education (2012): 14-30.