Post on 19-Mar-2022
GTU Design Workshop Libby Osgood, P. Eng
University of Prince Edward Island
Daily Agenda
10:00 Registration
10:30 Design Thinking – Need and Importance
12:00 How to Form Groups
1:00 Lunch
1:30 Tools and Techniques
3:30 Break
3:45 Presentation by Faculty Members
5:00 Round Table Discussion
Day 1, Session 1:
Design Thinking Need and
Importance
Welcome!
Please add answers to questions
around the room
Please form a line based on:
Birth month: Jan - Dec
Please form a line based on:
Number of years teaching design
(brand new to many years)
Please form a line based on:
Your engineering discipline,
alphabetically
(Aerospace – Textile)
Made you move around the room to break up your comfort zone
Formed new groups based on interest (discipline)
Elicit information for me (design experience)
Why Did
We Do That?
In Your New Groups
• Come up with a creative way to present
the data on your sheet to everyone
End (10 Minutes….)
Why Teach Design?
Traditional Program
Traditional Design
Program Program
What are drawbacks of teaching design
projects in the classroom?
What is different about teaching design?
Active Learning Spectrum Teaching Learning
Student interaction
Design
Projects
Traditional Lectures
Design
Projects
Traditional Lectures
Asking
Questions Homework
Problems
Tutorials
Labs
Class
Projects
What Else?
Day 1, Session 2:
How to Form Teams