Title
Teaching product design in line with Bloom's taxonomy and ABET student outcomes.
Abstract
Design is one of the highest-level activities in the engineering profession. Compared to many other areas predominantly involving closed-form solutions, design is an open-ended activity, with many possible solutions for the same problem. This shift from the concrete to the abstract makes teaching of engineering design courses more challenging. The target set forth by good academic institutions is to have a system in place that can produce graduates who are well equipped and suitably qualified to practice professional engineering in a continually changing and increasingly complex global environment. Bloom's taxonomy outlines the skill levels required for education at any level, and in any discipline. Accreditation agencies such as ABET also establish criteria that can be generally applied to any type of education, but are primarily focused on engineering education. The current paper describes a methodology for Product Design education, integrating both Bloom's taxonomy and ABET student outcomes in an activity-based environment. Creative Design course taught at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat is presented as a case study. Example design activities are described for each of the six levels in Bloom's taxonomy. A mapping table is also presented to relate these levels to student outcomes of ABET criterion
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference
Engineering education,Product design,Bloom's taxonomy,ABET student outcomes
Field
DocType
ISSN
Engineering profession,Engineering ethics,Engineering management,Creative design,Knowledge management,Engineering education,Global environmental analysis,Engineering design process,Accreditation,Engineering,Product design,Design activities
Conference
2165-9567
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sayyad Zahid Qamar101.01
Arunachalam Kamanathan200.34
Nabeel Z. Al-Rawahi3142.21