Georgia Institute of Technology

Students engaged in engineering design should keep a notebook or log that contains their drawings, reflections, test results, decisions, and justifications. This type of design notebook is used by professional engineers to keep track of important ideas and data and to protect intellectual property. In engineering education, a well-designed notebook can also serve as a pedagogical tool to scaffold students’ understanding of the engineering design process, and can be used by teachers to assess student mastery of the design process separately from the assessment of design artifacts. Typically, this is achieved through paper and pencil notebooks which is difficult to provide the necessary scaffolding and this is where the Engineering Design Process Log (EDPL) is the solution.