FAQs related to Design Engineering...? || What is Design Thinking? || GTU DESIGN ENGINEERING

(1) What is Design Thinking?

- Design Thinking is a problem solving methodology with Human Centred approach. It is cyclic process with various phases but includes lots of iterations at each phase. It is Human centred, iterative, collaborative and experimental process.

(2) What are the objectives or goals of GTU behind the introduction of this subject? Or Why Design Engineering subject is introduced in curriculum?

- An Engineer must be a problem solver. Keeping this thought in mind, GTU introduced this Design Engineering course with ultimate goal of providing innovative environment so that students can develop the mind-set to identify right problem and then its solution.

- The other important objective of University is to infuse the Design Thinking knowledge to various core subjects of the particular branch to have pedagogical innovation in Education System.

- Also to cease the copy-paste type projects.

- Learn the practical skills that are required in industry now-a-days.

(3) How design thinking is in alignment with the industry need?

- “Learning by doing” is the central idea for this methodology, so students will learn the industry required skill set along with their projects and gain knowledge that will be useful to them in industry.

- Also student with Design Thinking mind-set will perceive the Problem as an Opportunity with all kinds of Possibilities (not with only one solution).

(4) What are the expectations of the industry today from their engineering staff?

- Industries expect to hire an engineer who should have multidisciplinary knowledge, who is a problem solver not only process manager. They require an engineer who can work effectively in team, have hands-on experience and who are ready to change or inculcate new things/knowledge/technology – an open minded personnel.

(5) The objective of the Design Engineering course is to enhance the thinking ability and change the mind-set of an engineering graduate in positive manner. What kind of 

environment inside college should it be?

- Creativity is inherent, but of course it would be enhanced by providing and creating right environment for the students. For Design Thinking learning an open minded environment in terms of type of projects, branch, skills, team size should be created

within institutions.