期刊名称：Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
出版年度：2015
语种：English
出版社：The Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
摘要：There is a need in engineering education to improve the connection between design and engineering science. Students should be provided more opportunities to practice applying both science and design to a single problem in order to be better prepared for challenges they will face when they enter the workforce. For this reason, an instructor of a first year engineering science course was motivated to improve its connection to the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) Attributes, specifically the Design attribute. The goal was to revise the course such that the students would be required to integrate quantitative methods that were taught during the term through the means of design. It was decided that an effective pedagogical tool that could accomplish this was a case study, since it would provide complexity and context using a real-world issue that related to several course concepts. The methodology for case development, implementation strategy, future steps, lessons learned, as well as the instructor’s observations will be discussed.
