International Conference of the Learning Sciences (2014): Cognitive Ethnographies of Heterogeneous Engineering Design
Abstract: This is an empirical ethnographic study of how engineers in both undergraduate design courses and the professional workplace engage in engineering design. Our findings suggest that the organizational contexts constitute processes of design differently, in ways that challenge the typical rhetoric of undergraduate education that project courses are intended to provide students with 鈥渞eal world鈥 experience.
Lauff, C., Weidler-Lewis, J., O鈥機onnor, K., Kotys-Schwartz, D., Rentschler, M.,聽鈥淐ognitive Ethnographies of Heterogeneous Engineering Design,鈥聽International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), 麻豆影院, CO, June, 2014.