Students' Ways of Experiencing Human-Centered Design

• Published in: Journal of engineering education (Washington, D.C.) Vol. 101; no. 1; pp. 28 - 59
• Main Authors: Zoltowski, Carla B., Oakes, William C., Cardella, Monica E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2012
• Subjects: Academic Achievement; Convergent Thinking; Education; Engineering Education; Engineers; Evaluative Thinking; human-centered design; Information Sources; phenomenography; Product design; Product development; Productivity; Skill Development; Stakeholders; Studies; Technological change; user-centered design

Background Design is a central and distinguishing activity of engineering and one of the core criteria for evaluating and accrediting engineering programs. Design is also a subject area that poses many challenges for faculty, and incorporating human‐centered design approaches—approaches in which des...