Design Education and Engineering Design
Engineering design has been a focus of study not only due to its practical importance for the engineering and technology development domains, but also due to its rich setting that naturally supports cognitive and behavioral investigations of designing, learning, and teaming. It mostly involves ill-structured problem solving, which makes the act of designing and design education complex. This problem context often includes fundamental design, customization, personalization, and domain specific engineering issues. The multi-stage problem solving skills, for example, can be enhanced by integrating real-world problems to the design problem context – an aspect that also brings ill-structuredness.