Developing Systems Thinking Skills: A High-School Course on Engineering Design

Gero, Aharon; Danino, Ofer

doi:10.24908/pceea.v0i0.5846

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“…In this model, students and teachers begin to "try out" engineering design-based teaching methods before moving on to university education. Gero & Danino [9] refer to the case of 12 th -grade students who must complete various engineering tasks to motivate them to enter university, encourage them to develop thinking skills about systems, and train them in teamwork. In the same way, Hynes et al [8] state that society is recognizing the need to improve secondary education, and one way to achieve this is by introducing engineering design concepts before college; the purpose is not to get to build something (a common mistake), but rather to teach students to organize thoughts to improve decision making to develop high-quality solutions to problems.…”

Section: When To Start the Study Of Engineering Design?mentioning

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Engineering design, complexity in its teaching

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The trend toward increasing the design component in engineering curricula is part of an effort to better prepare graduates for engineering practice. The objective of the article is to review and contrast some methodological strategies of engineering design teaching at the university level to analyze the psychological theories in teaching practice and the temporal location of these courses within 5 years of the program. The results of the bibliographic review made allowed us to infer psychological postures, preferably cognitive and constructivist, and the location of design courses in the first semesters of engineering curricula. However, engineering design courses are recommended throughout the degree (taking as a reference some results of the Saber PRO tests) in which students participate in applied projects, and get closer to the industry, as more favorable strategies for the adaptation of future engineers to the particular demands of the national productive sector.

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Engineering design, complexity in its teaching

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2022

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System-thinking progress in engineering programs: A case for broadening the roles of students

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IntroductionComplex systems are prevalent in many scientific and engineering disciplines, which makes system thinking important for students of these fields. Duchifat 3 is a unique engineering educational extracurricular program, where high school students designed, assembled, and tested a nano-satellite.MethodsThis study applied qualitative methods to explore how the participants’ systems-thinking developed during the program. Participants were interviewed using the repertory grid interview, and a semi structured interview at the beginning and at the end of the project, while various observations were conducted throughout.ResultsWhile the participants were initially assigned narrow roles, each dealing with a single sub-system of the satellite, some chose to be involved with other sub-systems and aspects of the project. Our findings show that the broader the participants’ involvement was, the greater the progress they experienced in their systems-thinking. Participants who stayed focused on a single subsystem did not show progress, while participants who involved themselves with several sub-systems exhibited a more meaningful progress.DiscussionAlthough the program design aimed to assign students to a narrow role to enable them to achieve the educational goals, from the perspective of systems-thinking this was counterproductive. These findings shed light on the design of engineering programs such as the one examined here in terms of systems-thinking development. We discuss the implications of the findings for similar programs and make suggestions for improvement.

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Developing Systems Thinking Skills: A High-School Course on Engineering Design

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

Engineering design, complexity in its teaching

Engineering design, complexity in its teaching

System-thinking progress in engineering programs: A case for broadening the roles of students

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