Resumen de The educational effects of an introductory engineering design course based on creative projects
Jiyoung Han, Seung-Hyun Yoo, Eunkyeong Kwon
The purpose of this study was to verify the educational effects of a mandatory introductory engineering design course wherein thestudents find their own project items and solve them using creative projects. Case studies, investigation through surveys, andweekly reflective journals have been performed in order to achieve this goal. The results of this research present the details ofrunning the class and the outcomes of the student’s projects; the educational effects and difficulties are analyzed. It turned out thatbrainstorming is very helpful for idea generation and patent searches are useful in the problem solving stage. The finding of realengineering problems regarding the project topics is the most difficult part of the project, however it strongly correlates to theimprovement of the students’ hard skills and promotes the perception of engineering problems in the sense of engineers, not asusers but as suppliers.
