Thirteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

The complexity of actual world includes new techonolgies that are created every day as well as the social needs that we, as a university, must help to tackle. These require new ways of teaching how to design. The purpose of this paper is to describe how the Industrial Engineering Program at Javeriana University is including design concepts in the curriculum through the conception of three design driven courses that will take place at the beginning, the middle, and the end. The methodology usted to create these courses includes the design conception of Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), the Conceive Design Implement Operate (CDIO) educational Framework, the fundamentals of the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm and the Problem Based Learning pedagogy. We show that the integration of theses concepts could help the academic staff to create courses that promote the understanding of what design in the enginnering context is, how to focus de design concept through all the curriculum so the education competences are met, and how integrate a social and communitiy oriented goals in a conventional design driven course. Moreover, these types of courses could enable students to learn how to design solutions inspired in community experiences and needs.