CDW2 Schedule

12:00-1:00

Welcome, thanksgiving, and land acknowledgement from Elder Bill Woodworth

Introductory remarks Waterloo's Dean of Engineering

1:00-1:15

Break

1:15-2:30

Session 1: Co-Design

A Qualitative Investigation of Undergraduate Students’ Design Work Terms

Jordan Nickel, Christopher Rennick, Gregory Litster, Carol C.W. Hulls, Ada Hurst

Developing Low-Cost, Hands-On experiments with Design Education Potential 

Gordon Krauss, Chris Rennick, Sanjeev Bedi

Let's Meet Somewhere in the Middle: How Outsiders Reformulate Problems to Bridge Distant Domains and Create Useful Solutions

Ademir Vrolijk, Zoe Szajnfarber

Full-Stack Design Education: Integrating Design Theory and Practice with Identity to Empower the Future Generation of Engineering Designers

Katie Allison, Philip Asare, Morgan Hooper, Rubaina Khan, James McMahon, Anuli Ndubuisi

A novel perspective on student-community engagement in design education

Mohammed Syed, Jon Pusic, Santiago Leon, Robert Fleisig, Jeremy Hirota, Andrea Hemmerich

2:30-2:45

Break

2:45-3:15

Lightning Talks 1

A Machine Learning Tool to Classify Design Phases

Sharon Ferguson, Meagan Flus, Alison Olechowski

Probing the Tension between Blind and Directed Iteration in Early Engineering Design Practice 

Sean Maw

What Place is There for the Pluriverse in Engineering and Design Education? What Else is Being Left Out of Our Curriculum?

Matt Borland, Cameron Shelley, Scott Campbell, Stephanie Mutch

3:15-3:30

Break

3:30-4:45

Session 2: New Perspectives on Design Teaching and Research

Semi-Automated Feedback of Entity-Relationship Database-Design Problems

Paul A.S. Ward, Huan-Yi Chen

Efficient Evaluation of CAD Skill in Individual Users

Elizabeth DaMaren, Peter Di Palma, Alison Olechowski

Why Teaching Design is Hard and What We Can Do

Nancy Nelson, Bob Brennan

Towards a coherent design spine curriculum - Collective perspectives from faculty

Rubaina Khan, Lisa Romkey

Design Studio as an alternate course format for Fourth Year Capstone Projects

Andrea Atkins

 Data-driven design:  How do we prepare our students and teams?

Julie Johnson, Ada Hurst, Frank Safayeni

4:45

Closing of Day 1

10:30-11:00

Breakfast Social

11:00-12:00

Plenary 1: David Fortin

12:00-12:30

Lunch

12:30-1:45

Session 3: The Designer - Individuals and Teams

Measuring Gendered Patterns in a Capstone Design Course's Online Communication

Sharon Ferguson, Alison Olechowski

Understanding Design Team Conflict on Virtual Communication Platforms

Jiacheng Chen, Sharon Ferguson, Alison Olechowski

Experiential implementation of cornerstone course

William Melek, Ryan Consell, Sanjeev Bedi

Where to Grow From Here? An Empirical Study of Branching Use in Computer-Aided Design

Phil Cuvin, Alison Olechowski

Building Equitable Hands-On Undergraduate Design Experiences: Strategies to Minimize the Impact of Student Prior Experience and Expenditure on Assessment Outcomes 

Katie Allison, Philip Asare, Morgan Hooper, Rubaina Khan, James McMahon, Anuli Ndubuisi

1:45-2:00

Break

2:00-3:15

Session 4: Design Education Practice

This stinks: Assessment and improvement of fluid flow in sewer systems - a new design project for mining and materials students

Sidney Omelon

The Matter of Building: Educating Architecture as a Material Practice

Philip Tidwell

Incorporating Engineering Skills Training in Engineering Programs

Graeme Adair, Chris Rennick, Andrew J B Milne, Sanjeev Bedi

Creating a Computer-Aided Design Software ‘Translation Guide’ to Support Student Success

Elizabeth DaMaren, Jenn Coggan, Caroline Koenig, Alison Olechowski, Janna Rosales

The Evolution of a First-Year Engineering Design Course in a New Engineering Degree Program

Catherine Tatarniuk

3:15-3:30

Break

3:30-4:45

Session 5: Design Cognition

Activation of Prior Knowledge While Designing: An Exploration of Novice Design Behaviour

Christopher Rennick, Kenneth N McKay

Creative Prototypes of Engineering Design

Mishel Alexandrovsky, Peiying Jian, Meagan Flus, Alison Olechowski,  John Vervaeke

Connecting revisions to performance in engineering design: How the best teams revise their designs

Ademir Vrolijk, Yuanzhe Deng, Alison Olechowski

A Dual-Process Model of Design

Meagan Flus, Alison Olechowski

Metacognition In Design And Non-Design Questions

Huanyi Chen, Paul A.S. Ward

4:45

Closing of Day 2

10:30-11:00

Breakfast Social

11:00-12:00

Plenary 2: Chris McMahon

12:00-12:30

Lunch

12:30-1:45

Session 6: Sustainable Development Goals in Design

A Novel Perspective on Including Sustainability in Design Education

Marnie V. Jamieson, John R. Donald, Nadine Ibrahim

Making Space for the Human Element & Design Conversations

Jennifer Howcroft, Kate Mercer

Learning activities that support analysis of design resilience across different climate futures

Justin Henriques, Raja Schaar

Cross-Cultural Design Curricula in Canadian Educational Institutions

Zibo Zhang, Ada Hurst

Experiencing architectural design through an asychronous audio tour of the University of Waterloo campus

Andrea Atkins, Arfa Aijazi

1:45-2:00

Break

2:00-2:30

Lightning Talks 2

Instilling Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Considerations in Undergraduate Design Capstone

Tate N Cao

Introducing a required sustainable design engineering course for graduate students: Initial observations and lessons learned

Grant McSorley

Investigating the teaching and learning implications of a transdisciplinary social innovation design lab

Sean Geobey, Tara Campbell, Meg Ronson, Prisha Shukla

2:30-2:45

Break

2:45-3:30

Wrap-up Session

3:30

Closing of Workshop