1. Information-Rich Engineering Design (I-RED)
Michael Fosmire, Purdue University David Radcliffe, Purdue University
ASEE Annual conference, June 2012

2. Overview Investigate some Design Models
Propose Integrated IL/Design Model
Sample Applications

3. Need: Integrated Model
Model recognizable to Engineers and Librarians
Co-constructed by both to capture important components of each discipline
A bridge to help start conversations and find common ground for collaborations

4. Prior Work: ABET Mapping
3b) Ability to design and conduct experiments
3c) Ability to design a system…to meet desired needs within realistic constraints.’
3e) Ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
3f) Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
3h) Understand the impact of engineering in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context
3j) Knowledge of contemporary issues
3i) Recognition of the need for, and ability to engage in lifelong learning
-Riley et al; Sapp Nelson+Fosmire

5. Prior Work: ABET Mapping
3b) Ability to design and conduct experiments
3c) Ability to design a system…to meet desired needs within realistic constraints.’
3e) Ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
3f) Understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
3h) Understand the impact of engineering in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context
3j) Knowledge of contemporary issues
3i) Recognition of the need for, and ability to engage in lifelong learning
-Riley et al; Sapp Nelson+Fosmire

6. Engineering Design Central to Discipline of Engineering:
“Design is regarded by many as the core problem-solving process of technological development. It is as fundamental to technology as inquiry is to science and reading is to language arts.” -ITEA (2007)
Ill-structured problems mirror post-graduation situations, enhance transferability and deep learning

7. Info Gathering and Design
Consistently find first-year students gather less information than seniors, who gather less than professional engineers.
Number of Sources
Kinds of Requests (Aspects of Problem)
Time Spent Gathering Information
-Atman et al, JEE 2007

8. Design Models Client Statement (Need) Problem Definition
Conceptual Design
Preliminary Design
Detailed Design
Design Communication
Final Design (specs+docs)
Product
“The literature review is so well documented and understood that it might seem unnecessary for us to comment on it here….however, can be both vast and greatly dependent on phase or stage of the design.”
-Dym and Little, 2000

9. “Radcliffe” Design Model
Note:
Team dynamics
Reflection Stages are unique

10. Connection to IL

11. Characteristics of Info Activities

12. Information Activities

13. Information Activities

14. Information Activities

15. Information Activities

16. Information Activities

17. Information Activities

18. Information Activities

19. Implications Resources needed depend on stage of design process
Mixture of technical, social, economic, legal resources
Metacognitive process threads throughout project
Beginning and end focuses on Knowledge Management
Can target appropriate stage, or try to integrate throughout design project

20. Applications Provide Context:
Design Problem: Provide clean water to a community in Sub-Saharan Africa
Activity:
Brainstorm: List the assumptions you can make about the community to guide your project. (materials available, budget, culture, local expertise, etc.)
Locate information to inform one of your assumptions.
Was your assumption correct? What other assumptions from your list do you need to validate?

21. Applications Assess Technologies and Approaches:
Design Problem: Provide clean water to a community in Sub-Saharan Africa
Activity:
Determine ‘success’ factors of a solution (e.g., cost, ease of use, local materials)
Locate an appropriate product that could be applied to the problem. What is your assessment of the product?
Locate two external sources that evaluate or compare this product (or underlying technology) in a similar situation.
What is the assessment of those sources? How has it changed your assessment of the value of your chosen technology?

22. Conclusion Assembling Examples and Approach into Monograph
Initiatives at PU Press
IL Handbook series
Engineering Education series
Coming Fall 2013

23. What is Information Literacy Anyway?
Chp
Title 1
What is Information Literacy Anyway? 2
What Does Engineering Design Entail? 3
Where Do Information and Design intersect? 4
Whose Idea was That and Why Does It Matter? 5
How do Engineers Manage Their Information? 6
Getting Your (Information) Act Together: Developing a Knowledge-Management Strategy 7
Finding the Lay of the Land Understanding the Context 8
Finding Out What Clients Really Need: Understanding the Task 9
Searching Outside Your Box: Taking advantage of prior art 10
We Have a Winner: Evaluating Potential Solutions 11
Making it Real: Finding the most Suitable Materials and Components 12
Making it Safe and Legal: Meeting standards, codes, and regulations 13
Selling Your Solution: Persuading with Integrity 14
Don’t Re-Invent Your Wheel: Capturing Lessons from the Project

24. Michael Fosmire David Radcliffe fosmire@purdue.edu dradclif@purdue.edu
Thank You
Michael Fosmire David Radcliffe
Purdue University