From the Editor
Editor, AEE
Senior Associate Dean University of Pittsburgh
shuman@pitt.edu
This special issue focuses on Product Dissection. Guest editor Ann McKenna, together with Gül E. Okudan Kremer and Deborah Moore-Russo, have assembled a series of papers that provide a comprehensive view of this important area, especially as an increasing number of engineering programs are addressing how best to teach innovation and product realization. The issue contains seven papers addressing issues from introductory first-year projects to senior capstone design. Examples are presented of both short and longer term activities. Of particular note is the use of product archaeology to address ABET Outcome h – “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”
Table of Contents
- Special Issue: Product Dissection and Beyond
Ann F. McKenna, Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Deborah Moore Russo - Implementing Problem-based Learning through Engineers Without Borders Student Projects
Ann Wittig - The Role of Personality and Team-Based Product Dissection on Fixation Effects
Christine Toh, Scarlett Miller, Gül E. Okudan Kremer - A Product Analysis Method and its Staging to Develop Redesign Competencies
Claus Thorp Hansen, Torben Anker Lenau - The Relative Pedagogical Value of Disassemble/Analyze/Assemble (DAA) Activities
Odesma Dalrymple, David A. Sears, Demetra Evangelou - A Study on Situation Cognition: Product Dissection’s Effect on Redesign Activities
Katie Grantham, Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Timothy W. Simpson, Omar Ashour - Incorporating a Product Archaeology Paradigm Across the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum
Deborah Moore-Russo, Phil Cormier, Kemper Lewis, Erich Devendorf - An Exploration of the Effectiveness of Product Archaeology in an Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum: What Can a Five-Hour Curriculum Do?
Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Timothy W. Simpson, Omar M. Ashour - Embedding Context in Teaching Engineering Design
Xaver Neumeyer, Wei Chen, Ann F. McKenna