Research Interests
Engineering design thinking
I am interested in engineering design thinking - specifically how engineers think divergently and generate new ideas. My research deals with identifying strategies, techniques and processes that expert designers employ when they solve an engineering design problem. As an outcome of these investigations, I have designed a design pedagogy - Flare-Fork collaborative strategy, for a collaborating team of novice designers.
We have developed a technology enhanced learning environment - Prolific Designer, based on Flare-Fork collaborative strategy. The intervention provides strategies, and scaffolds to a collaborating team of novice designers as it takes them through productive design steps.
At the end of solving the engineering design problem using Prolific Designer tool, novice designers would have extensively explored the problem and solution space of the design problem and identified multiple, diverse conceptual designs.
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Learning 3D Geometry
How do children learn 3 dimensional geometry? Do they just memorize the properties of 3D objects? Do they build on their understanding of 2D geometrical objects? These were some of the questions that we explored in the project Geometry via gestures.
As an outcome of our investigations, we developed a gesture based learning environment to learn about the properties such as volume and surface area of 3D geometrical objects.
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Basic electronics lab - with a twist
Laboratory courses are expensive to conduct - what with innumerable precision instruments, components for students to use, and more demanding hands on guidance to give for each student. However, do the laboratory courses in their current format, meet the course expectations? How do we make laboratory courses more productive, engaging and at the same time meet the prescribed laboratory goals such as developing experimental problem solving skills?
We investigated the efficacy of a laboratory course with an innovative pedagogy geared to address some important laboratory goals. These included design of experiments and analysis of experimental designs to solve electronic design problems and expert like usage of sophisticated instruments.
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