#3dconfmelb15

1. Ian Gibson
Professor of Industrial Design
Director of CADET
Deakin University

2.  Disruptive education
 Centre for Advanced Design and Engineering
Training
 Motivation for a new programme
 Design Technology
 Project Oriented Design Based Learning
 3DP within CADET
 Future for 3DP in Engineering Education

3. AGEING ACADEMICS STUDENTS
Know more and more
about less and less
Get them young, when
they still know everything

4.  It’s hard
 It’s complex
 The fundamentals are dull
 The rewards can sometimes be difficult to see
 There is a difference between perception and
reality
All of this can result in poor motivation for an
average student

5.  Internet allows students to learn their own way
 No need for ‘sage on the stage’
 There is still a need for fundamentals
 Must establish context
 Drive students back into the classroom
 Need ‘spirit guides’
 Need to ‘learn how to fail’
 Compromise
 Communicate
Hello?

6.  3 reasons why they want more from their
engineering programme
1. Some are already entrepreneurial in a way
 Family businesses, etc.
 Already thinking about what they want from their
education
2. Want more hands-on
3. Need to understand context

7. The Centre for Advanced Design in
Engineering Training (CADET)
“Providing more graduates adept at communicating in the common language of design”
• A $55M project in partnership with Deakin and the Australian
Government funded through EIF in November 2012
• Aimed at increasing the number of engineers in Australia to
meet the significant shortfall.
• CADET will provide a new approach to engineering education
and provide a platform for design education with technology
rich, highly flexible, design & project based learning
environments.
• CADET is unique in the Australasian context and has
international significance.

8. The situation & need for CADET…
• “…the current shortage of 28,000 engineers will more than
double in the next 10 years…”
• “Regional Australia 'facing critical shortage of engineers”
• “…the entry level for engineering is actually dropping, so the
standard is dropping. That is a concern for the future.”
• “National shortage of women in engineering”
• “No alignment of learning and teaching to internal
and external requirements”

9. High School
Engagement
Student
Centered
Education
PODBL*
Industry
Partnership
The Three Pillars of CADET
*Project Oriented Design
based learning (PODBL):
Students learn through
design activities while driven
by a problem/ project.
The problem has not been
defined yet - the student will
therefore be called upon to
define the problem. Framing
and diagnosing the problem
is the most important yet
generally overlooked.

10. PODBL
Framework
Design prototyping
Students
Perspectives
Staff
Perspectives
Design
Based
Learning
Project Oriented Design
Based Learning
(PODBL)
Deakin Learning and
Teaching Approach
Industry
Perspectives
Accreditation
Requirements
Design
Centric
Curriculum
Graduate
Ready
Skills
InnovationCreativity
Problem solving
Analytical thinking Observation

11. LEARNING PRINCIPLES

12. PODBL CYCLE

13. CURRICULUM & INFRASTRUCTURE
INTEGRATION

14. CURRICULUM & INFRASTRUCTURE
INTEGRATION

15. CADET FACILITIES
• Conventional ‘prac’ labs
• Product realisation labs
• Project space
• Breakout rooms
• CAD collaboration suite
• Digitally integrated presentation
rooms
• VR CAVE system

16. EQUIPMENT
• Projet 660
• Projet 3000
• SLM 125
• Connex 3
• Bioplotter
• Approx. 12 entry level 3D printers
• Trotec laser cutters
• 5 axis machining
• Wire cutting

17.  Aim to reach outside of the teaching programmes
 There are very few ‘hardware’ incubators in
Australia
 Hardware developers need workshop facilities
 However, this need should extend into an
innovation environment
 Resident specialists
 Wide selection of versatile prototyping technologies
 Investor network, including accelerators and business
majors
 Coffee shop
 Concept tested/validated through Lean
Launchpad exercise

18. Get
Keep
Grow
Accelerator
Advanced users
Casual users
Inventors
Investors
Industry
• Awareness through
various school programs
• Hackathon to filter
inventors from other
types of users
• Ready inventors
through accelerator
programs
• Matching inventors
to inventors
• Graduated inventors
to return and use
facilities
• Graduated inventors
to return as investors

19.  Steve Jobs
 One of the most well-
known innovators of
the modern
generation

20. WHO IS THIS GUY?
• Kia Silverbrook
• Australian inventor
• 4665 US patents
• 9874 International patents
• The world’s most prolific inventor
• Does Australia have an entrepreneurial culture?

21.  Industrial Design major
 Within the Engineering School
 Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking,
Ergonomics, Design Culture Placements
 Technology underpinnings
 PODBL environment

22. CONTENTS

23. Note the
number

24.  If you are a student
 Push to incorporate Design-Centric learning in your
programme
 If you are an educator
 Incorporate more experiential learning into your
units
 Send your students to Deakin
 If you are in industry
 Collaborate more with institutions to provide more
problems

25.  Many ‘classical’ engineering programmes are
suffering
 We need to enthuse students so that they will
want to learn
 CADET has been presented as one way to do
this
 3DP is core to the work done in CADET
 We need to take this beyond the classroom