CROWDSOURCING ENGINEERING DESIGN PROBLEMS: LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCES

Learning to Solve ‘Design Problems’ in Engineering Education

Problem solving is a special kind of skill to learn. It is unlike many other learning outcomes. There are many different kinds of problems which exist, with design problems being kind of problems with their own characteristics. Design problems are characterised by the fact that they are often complex, ill-defined and with no singular process model. Solving design problems requires system, proce...

Lessons Learned from Crowdsourcing Complex Engineering Tasks

CROWDSOURCING Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed ideas, services, or content by requesting contributions from a large group of people. Amazon Mechanical Turk is a web marketplace for crowdsourcing microtasks, such as answering surveys and image tagging. We explored the limits of crowdsourcing by using Mechanical Turk for a more complicated task: analysis and creation of wind simu...

Engineering Geosciences Learning Experiences Using the Learning-for-Use Design Framework

In this chapter, we consider the design of learning experiences in the geosciences. Recognizing that too often, educational experiences do not lead to understanding that the learner can draw on when it is relevant, we focus on learning that leads to usable understanding. We use the analogy of engineering research and development to describe the way we have applied findings from cognitive scienc...

Crowdsourcing for Software Engineering

organizational learning and performance improvement in civil engineering design firms

learning rapidly and competently has become a pre-eminent strategy for improving organizational performance in the new knowledge era. improving dynamic learning capability is an exclusive strategy for corporate success in construction industry. thus engineering design firms should implement ol to accomplish a state of readiness for change and develop a competence to respond and identify future ...