Application of Design Methodology for Education

Designing is anticipating and establishing a product to fulfill a need. Design engineering is a function of industry offering technical systems. It involves iterative and recursive processing, a design specification, searching for solutions, evaluating, decision-making, and communicating, supported by obtaining and preparing information, verifying, checking, reflecting, and representing. The steps can be performed intuitively and/or systematically, using various methods, feedback, iteration and recursion. Engineering curricula should expose students to design methodology and theory to develop the ability and skill for designing. This exposure should occur for the whole class, not just by separate attention to individual students. 1