ASEE 2024 | Design Signatures in the Wild: Making the Invisible Visible

This workshop focused on outlining the experiential learning, research, and short-term and long-term applications of design signature capturing in the classroom. It centered around a fun oreo tower activity! This workshop was designed to support all engineering educators.

Time: 2.5 hours

Workshop takeaways

• “The design process should be pursued intentionally and iteratively. The signatures from the “best” projects showed more overlap among the design stages over time.”
• “Making the processes introspective may really help in a longer design challenge.” 
• “Consistent reflection about design process using tool is valuable versus being prescriptive about process in deliverables.” 
• “I want to use this visualization tool right away. This addresses a need I’ve been feeling for a while.”