디자이니어 양성 커리큘럼 및 캡스톤 디자인 응용 사례연구: 로봇청소기의 디자인적 사고 프로세스 사례를 중심으로

This paper deals with a ‘Designeer’ education program that has a specific objective of educating design to undergraduate students inmechanical engineering with the aim of enhancing their ability of collaboration with designers when they are going to work in thefield after graduation. The entire curriculum of the Designeer education program is introduced first, the end of which two-semesterCapstone Design Courses for senior students is offered to let them practice all the knowledge and skills in a project-based learningenvironment. Learning specific matters such as sketching & visual thinking, prototyping and user experience design is one thing andpracticing those knowledge and skills into a Capstone Design project is another. At this point, design thinking process needs to bein place to give students a foresight of one-year journey and to ensure that they will produce a desirable, feasible and viable productat the end of the year when they define the right problem at the beginning. Their frustrations and discoveries while applying designthinking throughout the year is explained by taking an example of a Robot Vacuum Cleaner design project. Finally, we provide realexamples of effective methods to practice divergent and convergent phases.