Workshop — WCDE design case study

Waterloo Cases in Design Engineering (WCDE) was established with the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), General Motors of Canada Limited (GMCL) and the University of Waterloo (UW) to enhance the teaching and learning of engineering design in all courses across the Faculty of Engineering using design case studies. The design case studies are developed from a large sustainable source of co-op engineering student work term reports. Communicating the benefits of case studies and the case method is best performed in an active learning format and environment. The workshop format is therefore an appropriate format to demonstrate the benefits of the case method for facilitating the learning of engineering design in particular, and professional practice knowledge and skills in general. The primary goal of this workshop is to educate participants in the use of case studies to promote active learning and assessment of engineering design and other ABET/CEAB graduate attribute requirements using the case method. A case study that was developed as an interrupted case study will be used to demonstrate learning and implementation of engineering design, where each module represents a phase in the design process. The workshop plan includes reflection and discussion after each module of the case is implemented.