Title :
Assessing the impact of service-learning on first-year engineering students´ understanding of human-centered design
Author :
Melton, Roy B. ; Cardella, Monica E. ; Oakes, William C. ; Zoltowski, Carla B.
Author_Institution :
Eng. Projects In Community Service (EPICS), Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
This paper represents an update of a three stage research project that culminates in investigating the impact of the service-learning pedagogy on students understanding of human-centered design. The first two stages of the project were disseminated in previously published papers where we discussed the discovery of distinct ways in which students experience human-centered design, along with another published paper discussing the development of an assessment task that would expose and capture students´ understanding of human-centered design.
Keywords :
design engineering; engineering education; human factors; engineering students understanding; human-centered design; research project; service-learning pedagogy; DVD; Decision support systems; assessment; human-centered design; service-learning;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Oklahoma City, OK
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2013.6684955