Eric Brubaker

Conference No. DETC2024-143560 · August 25, 2024 Featured Publication Designers are increasingly using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in design processes; however, knowing how designers use GenAI--especially in professional design practice--is under-explored. This paper presents an ethnographic study of a design ... Link to item Cite

A Spectrum of Stakeholder Perspective Taking in Early-Stage Design

Conference Proceedings of the Design Society · July 1, 2023 Featured Publication Stakeholder perspective taking is a critical skill in early-stage problem exploration and framing. We examined stakeholder perspective taking within an early-stage design team of engineers at NASA to begin to understand in what ways and under what conditio ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Objects of Collaboration: Roles and Sequences of Objects in Spanning Knowledge Group Boundaries in Design

Journal Article Journal of Mechanical Design · March 1, 2023 Featured Publication Spanning knowledge group boundaries is both a source of and barrier to design performance and innovation. Objects - from prototypes to kanban boards - are frequently used in cross-functional design practice, but their associated outcomes appear varied and ... Full text Cite

Approaching Complex Societal Problems Tied to Aviation

Conference AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, AIAA AVIATION Forum 2023 · January 1, 2023 Featured Publication From climate change to health inequity, humankind faces complex societal challenges that aviation can both exacerbate and help to alleviate. In this paper we describe our approach to identifying and approaching complex societal challenges with existing or ... Full text Cite

Partnerships Compass: Guiding Questions for Equitable and Impactful Engineering Community- Engaged Learning

Journal Article Advances in Engineering Education · January 1, 2022 Featured Publication Campus-community partnerships are integral to community-engaged learning, service-learning and similar pedagogies that extend project-based learning beyond the classroom into “real world” communities. Community-engaged courses have increased in prevalence ... Open Access Cite

Connecting people and ideas: Making sense of a research lab through creating a shared frame

Journal Article International Journal of Engineering Education · January 1, 2020 This paper looks at the culture of an academic research lab. Our aim is to internally reflect on how the connections between ideas and individuals can be noticed and labeled in order to create a shared cultural frame. We use a case-study approach with a se ... Cite

Integrating mind, hand, and heart: How students are transformed by hands-on designing and making

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · June 15, 2019 Hands-on education - the integration of mind and hands - is often believed to transform the way that students think and learn. How and how much are students changed by hands-on education, and by what mechanisms do such transformations occur? This explorato ... Cite

Impact-driven engineering students: Contributing behavioral correlates

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · June 24, 2017 Engineering has a long history of developing solutions to meet societal needs, and humanity currently faces many and varied societal challenges. Who are the engineering students motivated to address such challenges? This study explores a sample of 5,819 un ... Cite

The roots of entrepreneurial career goals among today's engineering undergraduate students

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings · June 24, 2017 Cite