Navigating Communication Challenges in Engineering Design Projects
Overview
Engineering design projects are a great way to engage students in learning that connects STEM disciplines to real-world problems. However, it is often difficult for students to navigate communication challenges associated with engineering design processes, team dynamics and responding to user needs. This course will help educators identify common communication challenges, adopt principles to promote students’ successful navigation of communication challenges and create communication scaffolds to foster engineering design practice in the classroom.
| Designed For | Teachers and educators |
| Topics | STEM; Collaboration; Project-based learning |
| Platform | Canvas |
| Source | Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation |
Learning outcomes
- Explain why navigating communication challenges is important in engineering learning contexts and identify communication challenges that students are likely to experience at different social levels across the engineering design process.
- Analyze and evaluate strategies for whole-class, within-teams and beyond the classroom communication.
- Create classroom resources to support students in navigating communication challenges across social levels (within-team, whole-class and beyond the classroom) while engaged in collaborative engineering design processes.
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