The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought severe disruption to the classroom
learning, with much of the learning being carried over to the virtual environment. However …

While advances have been made in studying engineering design learning in the classroom,
to date, such advances have not addressed hands-on, real-world learning experiences in …

The purpose of product dissection is to teach students how a product works and provide
them with inspiration for new ideas. However, little is known about how variations in …

The global pandemic of 2020 caused a paradigm shift in engineering education. In a matter
of weeks, and sometimes days, faculty members across the world had to move their hands …

Recent shifts into larger class sizes and online learning have caused engineering educators
to rethink the way they integrate inductive, or active learning activities into their courses. One …

Advancing virtual education through technology is an important step for engineering
education. This has been made evident by the educational difficulties associated with the …

The emergence of ideation methods that generate large volumes of early-phase ideas has
led to a need for reliable and efficient metrics for measuring the creativity of these ideas …

Front-end design processes including problem definition and idea generation set a course
for the ultimate success of a design. Many design process models emphasize the …

Engineering educators have used reverse engineering activities as a pedagogical tool for
decades. Product teardowns allow students to experientially learn how a product works and …

Product dissection is a popular educational tool in engineering design due to its ability to
help students understand a product, provide inspiration for new design ideas, and aid in …