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6 years ago in PhD Problem Statement By Pragati
How engineers will benefit from visual thinking?
Visual thinking helps engineers to reason the technical problems as well as ideate the design solutions. Schemes and sketches fully applies by engineers for their work that now visual thinking is linked to creativity. Is visual thinking taken into account in engineering education. What do you think? What is your experience as educators/students?
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By Akash Answered 6 years ago
I would like to appreciate for question you posed first. I’m a professor and I’ve taught problem solving and always I tell the students that expressing a problem visually on paper is often a very favored step to take. Now, some research showed that for groups who were given the same query or problem, the ones who told to picture it first came to an answer much quicker than those who weren’t. (can’t give the specific reference now)
One of the problems/difficulties is that no students want to write or draw. This physical act of carrying this out helps memory. I find students get standard engineering symbols wrong because they just copy without understanding. But when it is visual manner, they can see how to construct it and it considered that they are less likely to make mistakes. I would say, educators still have not taken pace to implement everywhere.
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By Pavitra Answered 6 years ago
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