Engineering design for the cultural world heritage : Reflections from the implementation of a challenge-based learning approach.

• Ingenjörsmässighet today is a matter of being able to engineer complex and multifaceted systems, to empathize with users, clients, and stakeholders to know more (and know better) about the problems to be solved, and to judge the ‘goodness’ of proposed solutions across social, political, technological, cultural and environmental values. Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) has been promoted in recent years as a means for students to align the acquisition of disciplinary knowledge with the development of transversal competencies while working on authentic and sociotechnical societal problems. This paper aims to contribute to the CBL discussion by presenting the lessons learned related to conducting engineering design projects with a focus on issues and themes related to innovation in the cultural heritage domain. The paper describes how engineering design projects at the undergraduate level have been set up and conducted to cope with different innovation challenges related to the World Heritage Site of the city of Karlskrona in Sweden. It elaborates on how design projects with a cultural heritage theme can leverage how students learn about ‘softer’ and more intangible dimensions of ‘value’ (for products, systems and services). 

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Annan maskinteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Other Mechanical Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Challenge-Based Learning

Design Thinking

value innovation

Cultural World Heritage.

Maskinteknik

Mechanical Engineering

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