Impact Areas
Our aim is for the Senior Design Challenge to make a contribution to all of the following experiential learning outcomes, increasing students’ confidence and ability to:
- Innovate and take risks
- Self-efficacy: belief in one’s own ability to perform well in a variety of circumstances
- Resolve: ability to act despite uncertainty of success
- Creativity: ability to sample ideas and retrieve or form unconventional knowledge
- Solve complex problems
- Complex reasoning: ability to extend and refine knowledge by comparing, contrasting, abstracting
- Incorporating perspectives: capacity to understand where others’ ideas come from and negotiate/apply perspectives
- Collaborate across differences
- Communication skills: ability to effectively convey information to others
- Cultural intelligence: ability to function effectively in culturally diverse contexts
- Empathy: aptitude for understanding another person’s inner experiences and feelings
- Think critically and reflect on learning
- Connecting theory to practice: competence in applying abstract ideas to connect situations
- Reflection: capacity to intentionally explore and appraise experiences to create meaning for the benefit of learning