CODAP is free educational software for data analysis. This web-based data science tool is designed as a platform for developers and as an application for students in grades 6-14.
…a human instructor who provides feedback to the designer based on evaluating the design artifacts. For example, the percepts of performance for a zero-energy building under design may be the…
…focuses on learning basic science for engineering rather than learning engineering design. Little was learned from these projects about students’ acquisition of design skills and development of design thinking. In…
…develop hundreds of online courses, Essential Elements: Prepare, Design, and Teach Your Online Course describes the process of putting your course online. With seventeen Essential Elements and countless tips to…
…CAD platform that integrates conceptual design, detailed design, collaborative design, numerical analysis, designer modeling, machine learning, and digital fabrication. After four years’ continuous work, the software can now do not…
…process. To see what this looks like, let’s examine an example of different students’ polymorphous practices from Energy3D, a computer-assisted design platform that enables students to design energy-efficient homes, solar…
The National Science Foundation funds SmartCAD—an intelligent learning system for engineering design Blog Post
…students are challenged to construct an artifact that performs specified functions under constraints. What makes engineering design different from other design practices such as art design is that engineering design…
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…for two design phases. In the first phase, students design and build their own model houses. In the second phase, they design and add energy-efficiency measures to their houses. The…
…“Monday’s Lesson: Designing an Energy-Plus Home” in the fall 2015 @Concord and Energy3D-Based Engineering Design Projects for Students.) The project is multidisciplinary and invites design thinking and spatial skills. There…
…creation and justification of their design concepts? How do students interact with the design mentor while designing, and to what extent do students’ idea generation, design evaluation, and science, social,…