Article
Integrating Design Heuristics into Your Classroom
Annual Meeting of American Society of Engineering Education
(2016)
Abstract
While successful concept generation is essential for innovative solutions, engineering students
often receive limited instruction about how to accomplish it. Design Heuristics have been shown
to facilitate concept generation by guiding students to explore multiple concepts in the solution
space. In this study, we investigated how four instructors integrated Design Heuristics into their
own engineering design courses. We conducted interviews with instructors about their
preparations, approaches, and classroom experiences while integrating the Design Heuristics
pedagogy into their courses for the first time. The findings revealed that both novice and
experienced instructors reported few challenges in lesson preparation and implementation, and
positive impacts on students’ idea generation outcomes. These experiences offer guidelines to
support other instructors in their adoption of the Design Heuristics tool for student idea
generation.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2016
Citation Information
Keelin Leahy, Shanna Daly, Seda McKilligan and Colleen M Seifert. "Integrating Design Heuristics into Your Classroom" Annual Meeting of American Society of Engineering Education (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/seda-yilmaz/32/