NDLI: User-Centered Design of Course-Based Portfolios for Mechanical Engineering Student Learning

Content Provider	The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collection
Author	Guan, Zhiwei Yellin, Jessica Turns, Jennifer Kumar, Vipin
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	One challenge for engineering educators is to design appropriate educational curricula that address both students’ needs and educators’ expectations. It is therefore important for the engineering education community to think about how to include students and faculty into the assignment design process. In this paper we discuss our use of user-centered design (UCD) principles, including early focus on users, empirical measurements, and iteration design, to design course-based portfolio (CBP) assignments for mechanical engineering students. To support the assignment design decisions, we collected early information about mechanical engineering students’ learning needs and educators’ expectations. Based on the design considerations that we identified for portfolio design, the CBP assignment is designed to ask students build a persuasive document and identify the connections between the course and mechanical engineering discipline. We measured our design by piloting the assignment with students and getting feedback from faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department; this feedback reflects the effectiveness of the CBP and leads to design iterations and tradeoffs. We also identified several students’ learning opportunities and formed these opportunities into hypotheses to evaluate the impacts of course-based portfolios on students learning in the next formal study. This research demonstrates a successful practice of using user-centered design principles to design a course-based portfolio assignment for mechanical engineering students.
Sponsorship	Mechanical Engineering Education
Starting Page	225
Ending Page	234
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0791842320
DOI	10.1115/IMECE2005-81768
e-ISBN	0791837696
Volume Number	Innovations in Engineering Education: Mechanical Engineering Education, Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering Technology Department Heads
Conference Proceedings	ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
Language	English
Publisher Date	2005-11-05
Publisher Place	Orlando, Florida, USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Design Engineering teachers Students Feedback Tradeoffs Mechanical engineering Engineering education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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