Productive Failure Pedagogy in Engineering Mechanics

In September 2021, the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) introduced a revamped bachelor's program that emphasizes design for higher complexity, teacher as a coach, and autonomous learning. The program includes Understanding Product Engineering (UPE), which teaches first-year design students about product embodiment, manufacturing,...

Workshop on open-access educational materials

This workshop is targeted at anyone interested in teaching ethics to engineering students. It aims to introduce the participants to the 4TU. Centre for Ethics and Technology method of building up Case-Based Exercises by having them apply it to create a Case-Based Exercise of their own. Participants will work in small groups (break-out rooms),...

Open source engineering and sustainability tools for the built environment

This paper presents two novel open source software developments for design and engineering in the built environment. The first development, called “sustainability-open” [1], aims on providing open source design, analysis and assessment software source code for (environmental) performance of buildings, structures and infrastructure. The aim of...

Interoperability in the networked design infrastructure

Interoperability, the ability of different software applications to communicate with each other, is one of the biggest challenges for efficient and effective use of advanced software technology in structural design and engineering. In practice, the problem of interoperability exists very much for the end-user since agreement on common standards...