디자인 씽킹(Design Thinking)을 적용한 기계 수동 조립 교과 수업방법 연구

Abstract

According to the Fourth Industrial Revolution era, modern society is changing rapidly. School education demands a new concept of talents owing to the drastically changing society. In the past, we memorized and stated what had been defined. However, the exploding increase in knowledge in our modern society requires a new approach to knowledge for students who will be living in the future. In an upcoming future for students, it has become more important to develop new knowledge from the perspective of delivered knowledge in the past and to have creative approaches to solving new problems. In this respect, a shift in new educational paradigm is required for mechanical engineering education of students in technical high schools that foster technicians. Mechanical engineering curriculums of technical high schools had focused on precise, prompt production based on experienced technical skills. However, it is necessary to establish eduction that allows students to solves creative and practical problems with computer or AI-based mechanical operation in the future. Accordingly, the study applies the Design Thinking process that corporations mainly and recently use in the creative idea generating process to the manual assembly curriculum of technical high school’s mechanical engineering department. It is intended to organize classes that may develop creativity required by our future society along with the school education. To do so, the study examines characteristics of the mechanical assembly curriculum based on the National Competency Standard (NCS) and chooses a topic, ‘Making a Vise Model’ to apply the process targeted for technical high school seniors. For topic application, it reorganizes the manual assembly curriculum, and develops the 6th teaching/learning course and class evaluation plans applied with the design thinking process. Then, the lesson plans are applied to actual senior classes and students make self-evaluation to conduct a satisfaction survey on the effects of such classes. Previous studies on based on the design thinking process were mostly related to design or art classes. However, the study applies the process to mechanical engineering classes in order to reorganize the manual assembly curriculum of the technical high schools that have been emphasizing repetitive skill training, which makes it significant as a practical study applied to actual schools.