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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"design challenge"”.
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Pre-assessment of the Impact of Design Challenge Fabrication Modality on Engineering Self-Efficacy
… problems typically found in engineering design. A high engineering self-efficacy, in turn, positively reflects a person's perception of their complex problem-solving capacity which is critical throughout the design process. The decision to either work virtually with a team or onsite with …
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The Global Leadership Program's engineering design challenge as an example of a successful cross-university introduction to engineering and design
… 35 Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) students to travel to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and participate in a cross-university cultural and educational exchange. The students have the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from MIT's own students and …
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Development of a vertically landed rocket design challenge for expanding the pipeline and enhancing education of students pursuing careers in space
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Designing episode content for Design Squad, a new educational engineering children's television program : the human powered water pump as a design challenge
… program for 9- to 13-year-old children, entitled Design Squad. One episode of the show will challenge the 8 child contestants to build a human-powered waterslide pump, to be used at a community swimming pool. 'Two potential design solutions are proposed for the design challenge: a ball-and-chain …
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The effects of a model-eliciting activity on high school student design performance
… allows students to become more effective designers. High school technology and engineering students engage in engineering design challenges as part of traditional instructional practices. Model-eliciting activities (MEA) present students with opportunities to elicit mathematically thinking …
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Home Not Hospice, an integrated community for young and old in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
The following thesis presents the design for a housing complex. The complex provides homes for two different segments of our population: single families and older or disabled persons and couples. Located in Old Town Alexandria Virginia, the project sits on the banks of the Potomac River. The …
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Designing an alternative project for a product design curriculum for high school students
An alternative curriculum is designed for Engineering the Future, a high school level engineering curriculum developed by the Boston Museum of Science. It is designed on the premise that a hands-on curriculum providing an authentic engineering experience is the best method of teaching high school …
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Design-integrated Urban Heat Island analysis tool and workflow : development and application
… this context demands climate-responsive design to achieve better-performing cities. The UHI effect presents an urban design challenge, but only recently has there been a platform for design workflow integration.
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Structure & Freedom - A Montessori School in Georgetown
The design challenge of this project was to create an engaging environment for learning; one that through its architecture, encourages discovery, sensory and intellectual development and stewardship of the environment. This school seeks to embody the Montessori ideal of "structure and freedom". …
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Designing Meaningful Algorithmic System Transparency for Non-Expert Users
… such systems. In this thesis, I explore how to design meaningful algorithmic system transparency for non-expert users. I highlight three core barriers to transparency, among other challenges raised in the literature. First, it is unclear how to design transparency in practice (‘Design …
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The flux measure of influence in engineering networks
… capabilities of the flux metric. An engineering design challenge may also be framed as a network analysis problem so that the the flux metric contributes to understanding the relationships among the system's subcomponents and objectives. A case study that investigates the design of autonomous …
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Emerging patterns of adaptive re-use : the new American House Hotel
This thesis aims to develop a design solution for the adaptive reuse of the American House Hotel that answers an architectural design challenge with technical responses. The process of actualization has been pushed a bit farther than has been done in the preservation/rehabilitation field. The …
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A sacred architecture for the secular spirit : an institute for mind/body training in New York City
The goal of the project is to design a non-sectarian meditation center in the dense urban area of New York City. The design challenge is to draw inspiration from an interpretation of ancient philosophies of meditation, without simply importing cultural relics from places in which those philosophies …
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Optimal digital system design in deep submicron technology
… leakage energy waste still remains as a major design challenge. We find that fine-grain dynamic leakage reduction (FG-DLR), turning off small subblocks for short idle intervals, is the key for successful leakage energy saving. We introduce an FG-DLR circuit technique, Leakage Biasing, which …
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A time-interleaved Zero-Crossing-Based analog-to-digital converter
… TIADC degrade its accuracy and is a fundamental design challenge. This research addresses the mismatch issue by investigating new circuit techniques to reduce offset error and timing skew. A new method to analyze noise in ZCB topologies is also presented. These methods were used to design a 2GS/S …
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Introducing engineering and design to homeschooled middle and high school students
… and taught an introduction to engineering and design course to her local middle and high schools. Inspired by an industry experience and MIT resources, she developed a curriculum that incorporated interactive activities and culminated into a design challenge for these homeschooled students. She …
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Decision-Making during Elementary Technological/Engineering Design-Based Learning
… during a technological and engineering (T/E) design challenge implemented through the Technological/Engineering Design-Based Learning (T/E DBL) pedagogical framework. Using a quasi-mixed method embedded multiple case study design, this study analyzed student responses to structured 2-1-1 …
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Toward an Artifact-Forward Feminist Design History
<p>Feminist Design History is a field abundantly sown, with lots of room for growth. This essay digs through seminal and contemporary works of feminist design history to learn how to contribute to the field most thoughtfully. I find that future scholarship must meet four criteria in order to …
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DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION OF AN ACCESSIBLE DIGITAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR MUSIC INCLUSION
… accessibility in music from both a theoretical–design perspective and a technological–practical one. The research is structured into two main parts. The first explores accessibility in music as a cultural, social, and design challenge, addressing how musical practices, materials, and …
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Forgotten Places: Points of confluence in existing urban frameworks
… new importance. This dissertation addresses the design challenge of revitalizing and reshaping spaces within an existing urban context using specific theoretical principles to help make the legibility of the proposal clear. Currently in our cities, designers face the challenge of generating …
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