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Exploring Topic Defining Patterns of Students in Interdisciplinary Capstone Design Class  

Byun, Moon Kyoung (Department of Education, Sungkyunkwan University)
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Journal of Engineering Education Research / v.21, no.1, 2018 , pp. 14-26 More about this Journal
Abstract
The goal of this study was to explore topic defining patterns of students in interdisciplinary Capstone Design Class. Thematic analysis methodology was used to examine 85 Korean college students' lived experience of project topic generation which is for interdisciplinary capstone design class and Individual open-ended survey for constituted the data sources. Findings show four contexts of student's topic defining patterns using thematic analysis including (a) one leader's directed problem representation, (b) team common decision making after brainstorming, (c) empathy with professor proposed issue, (d) problems offered to students by corporate or research competitions. Based on research result, I could suggest instructional strategies of Capstone Design Class of teacher for helping their students' topic defining. It was necessary to minimize the opinions of the instructors at the beginning of class and minimize the number of team members. And also it provided a lot of opportunities to collaborate with companies in the topic selection process, it will help to develop the students' ability to determine the valuable topic in project.
Keywords
Engineering education; Topic defining; Problem finding; Capstone design class; College students; Project based learning;
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