Quantifying Differences Between Professional Expert Engineers and Engineering Students Designing: Empirical Foundations for Improved Engineering Education

摘要

One of the primary goals of engineering design education is to equip students with the capability of becoming expert design engineers. To develop this capability in students, educators require a detailed knowledge of the cognitive behavior of both undergraduate students and expert design engineers. However, the lack of information about the cognitive behavior of expert design engineers led to a gap between competencies developed in universities and those needed to become an expert in the field; the process to quantify and verify how students acquire "the ability to do expert work" is inadequately studied in engineering.