“after the exam”

“In the seventeenth century imagination and intellect drifted apart, leading ultimately to their divorce.”

Sepper, Dennis L. Descartes's Imagination: Proportion, Images, and the Activity of Thinking. Berkeley,University of California Press, 1996. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0d5n99fd/

‘the design way’ (Nelson, Stolterman)

‘designerly ways of knowing’ (Cross)

‘design awareness’ (Archer)

Fluid Mechanics“The goal is to design and fabricate a device to visualise the flow of a viscous fluid by having a fixed quantity of said fluid (preferably water) partially bounded by a container made of a transparent material that incorporates a movable wall which sets in motion the fluid by shearing forces. The fluid flow is constrained by the container, thus enabling experimentation with at least the following parameters:

i) viscosity of fluid,

ii) magnitude of shearing forces, and

iii) geometric characteristics of the container.

The above framework is purposely kept very general so as to accommodate and model a broad range of vastly different possible realities and real-life problems. One specific example is…”

31.003 - Fluid Mechanics: http://epd.sutd.edu.sg/

Fluid Mechanics

“Indeed, you have a good qualitative assessment of their practical understanding of some theoretical concepts through this kind of hands-on design exercises/projects.”

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pldms/5850403553/

Key issues

• Workload, scaling issues• Plagiarism, types of failure• Grade-driven, lack of drive• Collaborative: rubric design, assessment• Blogs, e-portfolios, exhibition• Personal relationship, emotions• Student-led rubrics• Self, peer-assessment