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Title: Exploiting hand sketching in educating 'mechanically oriented' engineering students
Authors: Farrugia, Philip
Borg, Jonathan C.
Camilleri, Kenneth P.
Keywords: Computer-aided design
Three-dimensional imaging
Computer-aided design -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Issue Date: 2011
Publisher: The Design Society
Citation: Farrugia, P., Borg, J., & Camilleri, K. (2011). Exploiting Hand Sketching In Educating ‘Mechanically Oriented’Engineering Students. In DS 68-8: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11), Impacting Society through Engineering Design, Vol. 8: Design Education, Lyngby/Copenhagen, Denmark, 15.-19.08. 2011, 45-54.
Abstract: It is well known that even though Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems are available, sketching is still widely used in design synthesis. Mechanical engineering students must therefore be cultured and trained to exploit sketching during this crucial activity in the basic design cycle. However, in our years of experience in training such students we found a strong tendency that due to the overall knowledge transfer they receive, these future engineers tend to be oriented in mainly thinking and presenting details of their design solution. Whilst clearly design solutions need to be eventually described in detail for their successful realization, good detailed design solutions do not make up for poor solution concepts generated. In this paper, we therefore present the overall pedagogic approach adopted at the University of Malta in exploiting sketching both for expressing working principle solutions and also for early form design. In addition, this paper outlines how a prescribed sketching language was developed to enable co-located students to quickly express and exchange 3D CAD models of their sketches, all this helping in making 'global design' truly feasible even at the early design stages.
Description: The financial support provided by the University of Malta through the research grant ‘Innovative 'Early Stage' Design Product Prototyping’ (IMERP02-01).
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/18791
ISBN: 9781904670285
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