Does the Globe Get a Say?: Research & Teaching Insights on Designing in Context
CYNTHIA J. ATMAN, HCDE PROFESSOR
CYNTHIA J. ATMAN, HCDE PROFESSOR
OCTOBER 28, 2015
4:30—5:20 P.M.
241 MARY GATES HALL
4:30—5:20 P.M.
241 MARY GATES HALL
What
does design look like? How do designers spend their time scoping out a
problem, discovering user needs, developing alternative solutions and
communicating about design decisions? How do students understand and
apply issues of context when they are solving design problems? How can
we take the insights from the answers to these questions to inform
design teaching and learning? In this talk, Cynthia Atman will offer
some answers to these questions using findings from two decades of
research on designing in context.
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About Cynthia Atman
Cynthia
J. Atman is a professor in the department of Human Centered Design
& Engineering, founding director of the Center for Engineering
Learning & Teaching (CELT), and the inaugural holder of the Mitchell
T. & Lella Blanche Bowie Endowed Chair at the University of
Washington. Atman and Dr. Jennifer Turns are co-directors of the
Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE), a
$4.4 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable
Trust, whose goal is to implement reflection in engineering classrooms.
Her research focuses on engineering design learning with a particular
emphasis on issues of design context and the use of reflection to
support learning. She is a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the ASEE. Dr. Atman holds a PhD in
Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
