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