Ian GibsonProfessor of Industrial Design

Director of CADETDeakin University

Disruptive education Centre for Advanced Design and Engineering

Training Motivation for a new programme

Design Technology Project Oriented Design Based Learning 3DP within CADET Future for 3DP in Engineering Education

AGEING ACADEMICS STUDENTS

Know more and more about less and less

Get them young, when they still know everything

It’s hard It’s complex The fundamentals are dull The rewards can sometimes be difficult to see There is a difference between perception and

reality

All of this can result in poor motivation for an average student

Internet allows students to learn their own way No need for ‘sage on the stage’ There is still a need for fundamentals

Must establish context Drive students back into the classroom

Need ‘spirit guides’ Need to ‘learn how to fail’

Compromise Communicate

Hello?

3 reasons why they want more from their engineering programme

1. Some are already entrepreneurial in a way Family businesses, etc. Already thinking about what they want from their

education2. Want more hands-on3. Need to understand context

The Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering Training (CADET)

“Providing more graduates adept at communicating in the common language of design”

• A $55M project in partnership with Deakin and the Australian Government funded through EIF in November 2012

• Aimed at increasing the number of engineers in Australia to meet the significant shortfall.

• CADET will provide a new approach to engineering education and provide a platform for design education with technology rich, highly flexible, design & project based learning environments.

• CADET is unique in the Australasian context and has international significance.

The situation & need for CADET…

• “…the current shortage of 28,000 engineers will more than double in the next 10 years…”

• “Regional Australia 'facing critical shortage of engineers”

• “…the entry level for engineering is actually dropping, so the standard is dropping. That is a concern for the future.”

• “National shortage of women in engineering”

• “No alignment of learning and teaching to internal and external requirements”

High School Engagement Student

CenteredEducationPODBL*

Industry Partnership

The Three Pillars of CADET

*Project Oriented Design based learning (PODBL): Students learn through design activities while driven by a problem/ project.The problem has not been defined yet - the student will therefore be called upon to define the problem. Framing and diagnosing the problem is the most important yet generally overlooked.

PODBL Framework

Design prototyping

Students Perspectives

Staff Perspectives

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Project Oriented Design Based Learning

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LEARNING PRINCIPLES

PODBL CYCLE

CURRICULUM & INFRASTRUCTURE INTEGRATION

CURRICULUM & INFRASTRUCTURE INTEGRATION

CADET FACILITIES• Conventional ‘prac’ labs• Product realisation labs• Project space• Breakout rooms• CAD collaboration suite• Digitally integrated presentation rooms• VR CAVE system

EQUIPMENT• Projet 660• Projet 3000• SLM 125• Connex 3• Bioplotter• Approx. 12 entry level 3D printers• Trotec laser cutters• 5 axis machining• Wire cutting

Aim to reach outside of the teaching programmes There are very few ‘hardware’ incubators in

Australia Hardware developers need workshop facilities However, this need should extend into an

innovation environment Resident specialists Wide selection of versatile prototyping technologies Investor network, including accelerators and business

majors Coffee shop

Concept tested/validated through Lean Launchpad exercise

Get

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AcceleratorAdvanced users

Casual users

Inventors

Investors

Industry

• Awareness through various school programs

• Hackathon to filter inventors from other types of users

• Ready inventors through accelerator programs

• Matching inventors to inventors

• Graduated inventors to return and use facilities

• Graduated inventors to return as investors

Steve Jobs One of the most well-

known innovators of the modern generation

WHO IS THIS GUY?

• Kia Silverbrook• Australian inventor• 4665 US patents• 9874 International patents• The world’s most prolific inventor

• Does Australia have an entrepreneurial culture?

Industrial Design major Within the Engineering School Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking,

Ergonomics, Design Culture Placements Technology underpinnings PODBL environment

CONTENTS

Note the number

If you are a student Push to incorporate Design-Centric learning in your

programme If you are an educator

Incorporate more experiential learning into your units

Send your students to Deakin If you are in industry

Collaborate more with institutions to provide more problems

Many ‘classical’ engineering programmes are suffering

We need to enthuse students so that they will want to learn

CADET has been presented as one way to do this

3DP is core to the work done in CADET We need to take this beyond the classroom