Engineering Design Advanced

Academic unit or major

Graduate major in Engineering Sciences and Design

Instructor(s)

Shigeki Saito / Kazuaki Inaba / Hiraku Sakamoto / Momoko Nakatani / Yuki Taoka / Yuval Kahlon / Masanori Kado / Masaki Yagisawa

Class Format

Exercise/Experiment (Face-to-face)

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

Intensive

Class

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Course Code

ESD.B401

Number of credits

011

Course offered

2024

Offered quarter

2Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 14, 2025

Language

English

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

The aim of this class is to provide students an opportunity to exercise the design of user experience, software, and hardware that can solve the problem given on the basis of "Design Thinking" approach. The students are supposed to work as groups consisting of 4 or 5 members having different expertise. In solving the problem, the students are requested to learn the viewpoint of human-centered design using "Design Thinking". The way of ideation is typically unlike the viewpoint of technical-seeds oriented. The students are also supposed to learn the fundamental of the project management in order to lead the project of which members have different backgrounds.

Course description and aims

The goal is to obtain the capability of designing and presenting the solution that can solve the problem given through the use of "Design Thinking" approach as a group.

Keywords

Design Thinking, Project-Based-Learning (PBL)

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Students are supposed to have a group work under instructors' supervision. The class style is Project-Based-Learning (PBL).

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

Textbook(s)

Each instructor specifies textbooks.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Each instructor specifies materials.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Interviews & meetings during lectures (30%), team presentations (30%), reports (25%), and contributions to the team (15%)

Related courses

• ESD.A402 ： Design Thinking Fundamentals
• ESD.B402 ： Engineering Design Project

Prerequisites

Each instructor specifies requirements for her/his class. The class will be conducted on the assumption that students have already taken Design Thinking Fundamentals.

Other

＃This lecture restricts the number of students based on the maximum number of project groups. The enrollment of the following students will be preferentially accepted.
(i) Students in Engineering and Science Design Graduate Major. (Students who do not belong to the category may contact the instructors in advance to ask for the vacancy.)
(ii) Students who are willing to practice "empathizing with users through producing prototypes" and "overcoming the diversity of students with different backgrounds." These are evaluated by enrollment experiences of the related courses and interviews with the instructors.