BRING DESIGN INTO ENGINEERING EDUCATION

摘要

When I look at engineering programs in Australia and compare them to other areas of the world, I am struck by the fact that so many of our courses are aligned more to the sciences than they are to the design disciplines. The primary function of an engineer is to design and innovate. It's really important that we align our teaching, our undergraduate and post graduate teaching much more towards the design disciplines than to the science disciplines. The approach we have taken at Deakin is to come up with a new curriculum framework. This is a design-based framework, where students, right from day one of their program, have the opportunity to get involved in collaborative industry-focused projects.