STUDY OF CDIO WORKSPACES IN SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC Christopher

STUDY OF CDIO WORKSPACES IN SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC Christopher Teoh Pee Suat Hoon Leong Mun Kin

Contents SP’s Approach to Workspaces CDIO Process Environment Tools & Furniture Student Interaction Elements in Workspace Designs Types of Furniture Visualizer Information Management Types of Artefacts Survey of Workspaces Lessons Drawn Q&A

SP’s Approach to Workspaces ENVIRONMENT WORKSPACE DESIGNS (Location Tools) • Types of Furniture • Visualizer • Information Management CDIO PROCESS TOOLS STUDENTS’ INTERACTIONS

CDIO Process • The CDIO Framework – appropriate workspaces that support and encourages the learning of product or system building, disciplinary knowledge and social learning (Standard 6) – suitable project for the learning outcomes – multi-modal learning/knowledge transfer – lecturers and student informal exchange

Elements of Interactions Project Stages Pre-Project Conceive Design Implement Operate Activities Form effective teams Research Create concepts Generate and share ideas Translate concepts into tangible design Develop potential solutions Combine building blocks Prototype ideas using simulation or other means Fabricate parts Assemble parts Test integrated project Troubleshoot project Demonstrate workability Execute tasks

Elements in Workspace Design • Elements of Workspace Design – Furniture – Visualisation Support – Information Management • Furniture – Sufficient flexibility for both collaborative and individual learning – Other (secondary) uses

Furniture@Workspace

Elements in Workspace Design • Visualisation Support – Personal whiteboards or flipcharts – Ability to record discussion/information e. g. using electronic whiteboards

Visualisation Support

Elements in Workspace Design • Information Management Recording of information learnt and/or constructed Wikis, electronic logbooks or other electronic setups and databases

Information Management Share Recording Streams Past Experience Gather Data Generate Concepts Test Ideas New Ideas Creativity Streams Incubate Explore

Type of Artefacts Student’s Engineering Experience

Survey of SP Workspaces School of EEE • IE/IDEA Lab in T 12601 -6 – Single Lab where ALL module activity takes place – Activities are varied • Conceive (brainstorm, discussion, creative thinking) • Design (paper design, web search, simulation) • Implement (building prototype, testing, competition) – Workgroup sizes vary (single, pairs, group of 4)

Survey of SP Workspaces School of EEE • IE/IDEA Lab in T 12601 -6 (cont’d) – Simple electronic test equipment available (power supply, multi-meters, scopes etc) – Most project components available – Highly and easily accessible – Cool factor – vibrant colours, warm lighting, electronic whiteboards, wireless projectors etc – Flexible enough to host other modules and purposes.

Survey of SP Workspaces School of EEE • IE/IDEA Lab at T 12601 -6 (cont’d) Single all inclusive flexible workspace Flexible Workspaces (Multi-Module usages)

Survey of SP Workspaces School of EEE • Design & Innovation Lab in T 822 – Consist of main lab with workshop extension – Activity in workshop fixed - fabrication of chassis (mechanical structure) – Activities in main lab varied • Conceive (creative thinking, discussions) • Design (paper design, web search, simulation) • Implement (building electronic prototype, testing) – Student workgroup size is 4 or 5

Survey of SP Workspaces School of EEE • Design & Innovation Lab in T 822 (con’d) – Fixed, partitioned workspace in main lab for conducive team working environment – Simple electronic test equipment available (power supply, multi-meters, scopes etc) – Most project components available – Wireless LAN, Labview & C-compiler available – Highly and easily accessible

Survey of SP Workspaces School of EEE Design & Innovation Lab in T 822 • Conceive, Design, Implement and Operate

Survey of SP Workspaces School of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Implemented Workspaces in SMAE Workspace Name Location Integrated Project Centre (IPC) Machine Development Centre (MDC) Project Centre W 1115 Sq Area (M 2) Courses (CDIO) No. of Students 245 SP 0502 IDEA MM 1028 IE 160 W 1112 A 1125 MM 3008 Teaching Factory 80 W 1218 812 EC 1166 Design & Fab Project 80 MM 305 Z Project Part II 400 -500

Survey of SP Workspaces School of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Conceive, Design, Implement & Operate in W 1112 A • Fixed and flexible partitioned workspace • Fully equipped workspace (Drop down supplies, workshop equipment, . . ) • Wireless LAN, Computing S/W and Vision apparatus • Facilitates Final year student and Commercial Projects for Industry

Survey of SP Workspaces School of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering • Conceive and Design • Fully Equipped PC Suit • Commercial Workspace • Facilitates First to Final Year students Student’s Design Area

Survey of SP Workspaces School of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering • Implement & Operate • Fully Equipped Workshop • Flexible Workspace • Facilitates CDIO modules and Final Year students

Survey of SP Workspaces School of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering • Conceive and Design • Fully Equipped PC Suit • Flexible Workspace • Facilitates First to Final Year students

Survey of SP Workspaces School of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering • All stages of CDIO • Fully Equipped Workshop • Flexible Workspace • No Air-Conditioning • Facilitates 2 nd to Final Year Project

Lessons Drawn • Lesson Drawn from Workspace Survey – Subliminal Messages – Specialisation vs. Workspace Flexibility – Space requirement and throughput vs. artefact size – Multiple uses (Teaching Project Exhibition)

Lessons Drawn • Subliminal Messages – The way workspace is decorated, laid out or configured influences student work behaviour • IE/IDEA Lab (Hobby culture) • IPC (Team culture) • MDC (Formal workplace culture) • PC (Craftsmanship culture)

Lessons Drawn • Specialisation vs. Workspace Flexibility – Trade-off between specialised equipment and workspace flexibility – Specialised equipment like cutting and milling machines, emulators etc tend to make workspace fixed – More difficult to have flexible workspace to accommodate higher year projects

Lessons Drawn • Space requirement and throughput vs. artefact size – Consideration needs to be focused on project artefact size and how to store them – The larger the project artefact size, the higher the space requirements and the lower the workspace throughput

Thank You Q&A