The 24 hour challenge : creating a multidiscipline environment for design and entrepreneurship in engineering and design

Power, EJ

Abstract

This Innovation and Creative Exchange (ICE) is an inter-school enterprise opportunity exclusively for second year Engineering and Design students at the University of Huddersfield. Its primary objective is to bring the best of innovative design and industry thinking into the undergraduate curriculum and to embed the latest innovation and design methodologies into the curriculum for engineering and design students ? the next generation of employees for UK knowledge-based industries.

• Publication Date: 2014-01
• Deposit Date: May 26, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: May 26, 2022
• Publisher: Higher Education Academy
• Pages: 22
• Series Title: Practice in Higher education HEA case study
• Book Title: Enhancing employability through enterprise education: Examples of good practice in higher education
• Publisher URL: https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/22949/
• Related Public URLs: http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/4113/
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This submission contains three main elements: firstly a book chapter (2018), containing original primary analysis gathered over a project spanning 6 years. This presents a case-study of the Innovation and Creative Exchange (ICE) which uses the concept of challenge-led learning to enable Undergraduate (UG) students to co-create knowledge and form knowledge communities/exchanges leading to the developments of skills and attributes associated with employability, enterprise and entrepreneurship. This chapter presents a blueprint for experiential learning in practice through employing interdisciplinary wicked challenge-led learning opportunities as part of the Higher Education (HE) UG experience. This research demonstrates the value and impact of learning-by-doing and learning through reflection-on-doing the key elements of experiential learning in practice. The book chapter is supported by a journal publication of the case study 92016) and recognition from the HEA in a practice based publication of sector nest practice (2014). There is a plethora of conference proceedings and publications to support dissemination of the impact from this practice-based research