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Design education aims to develop in students the confidence to apply engineering fundamentals to the design of products and systems and this can only be achieved through intensive education and exposure to real-life engineering problems. Current issues in teaching engineering design, include the resources and labour intensive nature needed for the subject. In practice, when developing a design, engineers are dependent on the situation at hand, so goals, problems and constraints are often ill defined and may change as the problem continues to unfold. There is no single ideal solution. Assumptions and estimations are required before each analysis step, and the results need to be evaluated against the desired functional output. Often, many analysis iterations are required before a suitable solution is found. When teaching, providing the same scenario requires that tutorial guidance must adapt to the particular solution that each individual student devises. Conventional online tutorials can help to combat some of these issues, but they are not able to track the student progress in detail, nor are they able to provide customisable feedback, based on student progress. The aim of the research is to develop engineering design software tools that can address key problems in current engineering design education and provide students with a more effective and enriching educational experience. This paper discusses a response to these issues in design education in engineering, in the form of adaptive tutorials, and puts forward the preliminary analysis of their success in helping students overcome the limitations of current design education. |
