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Training Tomorrow’S Designers: A Study On The Design Fixation, Vimal Viswanathan, Nicole Esposito, Julie Linsey
Training Tomorrow’S Designers: A Study On The Design Fixation, Vimal Viswanathan, Nicole Esposito, Julie Linsey
Faculty Publications, Mechanical Engineering
Training Tomorrow’s Designers: A Study on the Design Fixation Training engineering students for being tomorrow’s efficient designers has been an area of concern in recent times. The ability to come up with novel and functional solutions to design problems is an essential skill for a good designer. Researchers have identified many factors that affect the generation of novel ideas. The presence of rich pictorial stimuli around designers is one such factor. Designers tend to duplicate features from the examples they encounter in their immediate surroundings or in their day-to-day activities. This adhesion to the existing features from their surroundings is …
Build To Learn: Effective Strategies To Train Tomorrow’S Designers, Vimal Viswanathan, Julie Linsey
Build To Learn: Effective Strategies To Train Tomorrow’S Designers, Vimal Viswanathan, Julie Linsey
Faculty Publications, Mechanical Engineering
Build to Learn: Effective Strategies to Train Tomorrow’s Designers use various representations to externalize their ideas, physical models being an important one. Engineering students need physical models are widely used by designers and their use is promoted as an effective design tool by industry and government agencies. However, very little is known about the cognitive effects of physical models in the design process. The available guidelines are conflicting. Some researchers argue for the frequent implementation of physical models; others observe that the use of physical models fixates designers. In light of these conflicts, this research project focuses on understanding the …