Exhibit Features and Visitor Groups’ Engineering Design Practice

June 30th, 2021 | RESEARCH

This document provides a brief story about how the Designing our Tomorrow team explored some of their questions about exhibit features by using the C-PIECE Framework: Framework of Collaborative Practices at Interactive Engineering Challenge Exhibits.

This exploratory line of inquiry looked at relationships between exhibit features and visitor groups’ Informed engineering design practicesThis brief includes an Introduction, Methods and Findings, Summary, and Implications.

This exploratory line of inquiry was conducted to inform the development of the Designing our Tomorrow exhibit and future implications for OMSI.

 

Document

Exhibit-Features-and-Visitor-Groups-Engineering-Design-Practices.pdf

Team Members

Carla Herran, Author, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Scott Randol, Author, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Todd Shagott, Author, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Marcie Benne, Author, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Smirla Ramos-Montañez, Author, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Nicole Surbaugh, Author, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

Funders

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: AISL
Award Number: 1811617
Funding Amount: $1,196,714.00

Related URLs

Designing Our Tomorrow: Mobilizing the Next Generation of Engineers

Tags

Audience: Elementary School Children (6-10) | Evaluators | Families | Learning Researchers | Middle School Children (11-13) | Museum | ISE Professionals | Parents | Caregivers | Youth | Teen (up to 17)
Discipline: Engineering
Resource Type: Research Case Study | Research Products
Environment Type: Exhibitions | Museum and Science Center Exhibits