Empirical research on practicing engineers can inform engineering education as it provides
evidence for what engineering students ought to learn. Whilst there has been a growing …

Research was undertaken to understand how to provide the most appropriate support for
novice designers in engineering design. However, how designers apply their experience …

While there is a large amount of literature on feedback, it is unclear how well traditional
prescriptions for feedback apply during creative projects, since creativity often relies on …

Communication Patterns of Engineers brings together, summarizes, and analyzes the
research on how engineers communicate, presenting benchmark data and identifying gaps …

A discourse on the selection of tools for capturing and analysing own design activity is
presented. Issues including design activity as data and the validity of self-reportage/analysis …

Background Engineering education research frequently examines students' persistence (or
intentions to persist) into engineering careers from engineering school. However, the variety …

This paper seeks to address omissions in previous research by identifying a future
competency profile for design engineers. A three-phase methodology using both …

This paper presents a sociology of knowledge approach to describe disciplines in the field of
design. We show how the approach casts the nature of knowledge in design disciplines as …

This paper presents an empirical study carried out in the automotive industry, with the aim to
bring forward new experiences and knowledge on management of requirements in practice …

Professional Identity (PI) is a social-and self-perceptive construct that describes how people
understand themselves as professionals. PI guides professional development by shaping …