Title :
Work in progress: Investigating the engineering design process: Novices vs. experts
Author :
Ting Song ; Becker, Kurt H.
Author_Institution :
Utah State Univ., Logan, UT, USA
Abstract :
This study investigates the engineering design process. It compares expert and novice engineers during the processes of decomposition of a problem and the recomposition of subproblems when working in teams. The paper describes the research questions, research design, and method of collecting data and analyzing data of the study.
Keywords :
engineering education; team working; engineering design process; expert engineers; novice engineers; problem decomposition; research design; subproblem recomposition; Educational institutions; Encoding; Engineering education; Industries; Knowledge engineering; Protocols; FBS; engineeering design; problem decomposition; protocol analysis; recomposition of sub-problems; teaming;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2012
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1353-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0190-5848
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2012.6462331
