by Joran | Sep 8, 2014 | 2014, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Joran Booth, Karthik Ramani
While much prior work has been done regarding sketching and its impact on design and a few on how to train engineers to sketch, there have been no prior studies in engineering to reduce inhibition to frequent sketching. This paper describes a sketching intervention...
by Joran | Sep 8, 2014 | 2014, Design Learn, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Joran Booth, Karthik Ramani
The purpose of this study is to continue to explore which function identification methods work best for specific design tasks. Prior literature describes the top-down and bottom-up approaches as equivalent methods for functional decomposition. Building on our prior...
by Joran | Aug 23, 2013 | 2013, Design Learn, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Joran Booth, Karthik Ramani
In design classes, functional analysis is a process that is typically used to assist students with identifying essential functions to aid in the development of their concepts. However, it has been observed that students sometimes struggle with this part of the...
by Joran | May 19, 2012 | Joran Booth, Karthik Ramani, Outreach
In 2012, our lab represented Purdue for the first time at the annual Makers’ Faire in San Mateo, California. We taught sketching workshops for well over 200 people over 2...
by Joran | May 19, 2012 | Joran Booth, Outreach
In 2012, we were invited to lead a workshop in ME 297 (How Stuff Works) for NERF blasters. We brought blasters for the students to take apart. After the students took the blasters apart, they created a function tree to describe how it works. They were then shown...
by Joran | May 19, 2011 | Joran Booth, Outreach
In 2011, we were asked to teach kids about what it means to be an engineer and have some engineering activity. We talked to the kids about what engineers are and how they use sketching to do their work. They loved...
