2. Overview
o Brief overview of WISEngineering
o Engineering Design Pedagogy – What is it?
o Engineering Design Cycle – Step by Step
o Time to play! (WISE4 or WISEngineering)
3. WISEngineering Overview
An innovative, free online learning
environment
Designed to improve STEM learning
Builds upon WISE4 from UC - Berkeley
Being Developed at UVA
5. Engineering Design Pedagogy
o How is this different from inquiry?
o Inquiry – research question, using data
collection to come to some conclusion
o Engineering design – problem to solve with
certain specs and constraints, multiple
solutions, divergent thinking
o Be mutually beneficial – inquiry spur design
o One more access point –
motivate, connect
6. Engineering Design Pedagogy
o Just like there is no one Scientific Method
o (See Nature of Science – Bell)
o There is no one engineering design method
o We chose this to communicate to students
o Engineers, teachers, educational
researchers
7. Design Challenge Design
Solution
Collaboration
Refine Specifications Systems
Design Constraints Thinking
Test and
Evaluate Design Knowledge
Develop
Design Cycle
Build Ideate
Prototype Solutions
Optimization Creativity
Tradeoffs
8. Design Design
Challenge Solution
Collaboration
Refine Specifications Systems
Design Constraints Thinking
Test and
Evaluate Design Knowledge
Develop
Design Cycle
Build Ideate
Prototype Solutions
Optimization
Creativity
Tradeoffs
9. Design Challenge Design
Solution
Collaboration
Refine Specifications Systems
Design Constraints
Thinking
Test and
Evaluate Design Knowledge
Develop
Design Cycle
Build Ideate
Prototype Solutions
Optimization
Creativity
Tradeoffs
10. Design Challenge Design
Solution
Collaboration
Refine Specifications Systems
Design Constraints Thinking
Test and
Evaluate Design Knowledge
Develop
Design Cycle
Build Ideate
Prototype Solutions
Optimization Creativity
Tradeoffs
11. Design Challenge Design
Solution
Collaboration
Refine Specifications
Design Constraints Systems
Thinking
Test and
Evaluate Design Develop
Design Cycle Knowledge
Build Ideate
Prototype Solutions
Optimization Creativity
Tradeoffs
12. Design Challenge Design Solution
Collaboration
Refine Specifications Systems
Design Constraints Thinking
Test and
Evaluate Design Knowledge
Develop
Design Cycle
Build Ideate
Prototype Solutions
Optimization
Tradeoffs
Creativity
13. Design Challenge Design
Solution
Collaboration
Refine Specifications Systems
Design Constraints Thinking
Test and
Evaluate Design Knowledge
Develop
Design Cycle
Build Ideate
Prototype Solutions
Optimization
Tradeoffs Creativity
14. Design Challenge Design
Solution
Collaboration
Refine Specifications Systems
Design Constraints Thinking
Test and
Evaluate Design Knowledge
Develop
Design Cycle
Build Ideate
Prototype Solutions
Optimization
Creativity
Tradeoffs
15. Design Challenge Design
Solution
Collaboration
Refine Specificatio Systems
Design ns Thinking
Constraints
Test and
Evaluate Design Develop
Knowledge
Design Cycle
Build Ideate
Prototype Solutions
Optimization
Tradeoffs Creativity
16. Design Challenge Design
Solution
Collaboration
Refine Specificatio Systems
Design ns
Thinking
Constraints
Test and
Evaluate Design Develop
Knowledge
Design Cycle
Build Ideate
Prototype Solutions
Optimization
Tradeoffs Creativity
17. Design Challenge Design
Solution
Collaboration
Refine Specificatio Systems
Design ns
Thinking
Constraints
Test and
Evaluate Design Develop
Knowledge
Design Cycle
Build Ideate
Prototype Solutions
Optimization Creativity
Tradeoffs
18. Design Challenge Design
Solution
Collaboration
Refine Specificatio Systems
Design ns
Thinking
Constraints
Test and
Evaluate Design Develop
Knowledge
Design Cycle
Build Ideate
Prototype Solutions
Optimization
Tradeoffs Creativity
19. Design Challenge Design
Solution
Collaboration
Refine Specificatio Systems
Design ns
Thinking
Constraints
Test and
Evaluate Design Develop
Knowledge
Design Cycle
Build Ideate
Prototype Solutions
Optimization
Tradeoffs Creativity
39. End of class reflection
Worked in a group or alone
Design challenge or relevant problem that
you were asked to solve
Specifications, constraints, multiple
solutions, optimization
Hopefully you had fun
Feedback from students, teachers and
WISEngineering
Applied science and math
51. WISEngineering
o Uses Engineering pedagogy: learning occurs as students
engage in a task with specifications and constraints
o Design Tasks present students with a project to
complete, embedded within a story (e.g., building a
community center)
o Knowledge and Skills builders provide the instruction
and practice needed to complete the full design task
o Student work serves as embedded assessments of
knowledge integration and is collected throughout the
tasks
o A cyber-interface allows the delivery of a hybrid
instructional model that incorporates both computer
based learning and hands on work
52. Acknowledgements
o WISEngineering teachers and students
o EDUCAUSE, Next Generation Learning
Challenges, The Council of Chief State School
Officers, iNACOL, League for Innovation in the
Community College, Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
o The University of Virginia WISEngineering
Development Team
Teacher professional development/Students don’t have any idea of what engineers; make it important for why teachers should know it. You’re students might have trouble with… (explain in this approach to make it feel less direct or confrontational)
Tradeoffs optimization… design problem & solution with specifications and constraints (spaghetti noodle challenge—might be many types of bridgesCreativity multiple solutions. Distinction between scientific inquiry and engineering design. Systems thinking
Tradeoffs optimizationCreativitySystems thinking
Standards-based and developing knowledge. – The latter half is focused on reflection.. Explicit way that students interact with each other (embedded in the framework, engineering habits of mind)
Tradeoffs optimizationCreativitySystems thinking
Tradeoffs optimizationCreativitySystems thinking
Tradeoffs optimizationCreativitySystems thinking
Tradeoffs optimizationCreativitySystems thinking
Tradeoffs optimizationCreativitySystems thinking
Tradeoffs optimizationCreativitySystems thinking
Tradeoffs optimizationCreativitySystems thinking
Tradeoffs optimizationCreativitySystems thinking
Tradeoffs optimizationCreativitySystems thinking
Tradeoffs optimizationCreativitySystems thinking
What do we mean by this? Try it out yourself. We invite you to experience the class of a student using WISEnginnering…If you want, log into: Wisengineering.orgOr, just join us virtually
What do we mean by this? Try it out yourself. We invite you to experience the class of a student using WISEnginnering…If you want, log into: Wisengineering.orgOr, just join us virtually
What do we mean by this? Try it out yourself. We invite you to experience the class of a student using WISEnginnering…If you want, log into: Wisengineering.orgOr, just join us virtually
What do we mean by this? Try it out yourself. We invite you to experience the class of a student using WISEnginnering…If you want, log into: Wisengineering.orgOr, just join us virtually
What do we mean by this? Try it out yourself. We invite you to experience the class of a student using WISEnginnering…If you want, log into: Wisengineering.orgOr, just join us virtually
What do we mean by this? Try it out yourself. We invite you to experience the class of a student using WISEnginnering…If you want, log into: Wisengineering.orgOr, just join us virtually
WISEngineering is a technology-based learning environment that builds upon the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment from Berkeley, and scaffolds engineering design projects. STEM Engineering pedagogy: Use of engineering design as a context to motivate students to learn about math and science. Typically, students learn procedures or facts devoid of why they would ever have to use them. Engineering design pedagogy puts the learning of math and science skills and facts within engineering projects so that students are both motivated to learn the content and see a direct application of their learning. Specific learning is motivated when students engage in a design task with specifications and constraints based on targeted concepts.Knowledge and Skill Builders provide instruction and practice to complete the task within the projects.Student work serves as embedded assessments of knowledge integration – how well students are connecting ideas from the project and KSB’s. Embedded assessment happens throughout the project.Feedback can then be given by teachers, peers, and automatically by WISEngineering.
