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OKUDAN KREMER TIMOTHY W. SIMPSON AND  \nOMAR ASHOUR Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA  \nABsTrACT  \nSituated cognition theory describes the context of a learning activity’s effect on learner’s cognition. In this paper, we use situated cognition theory to examine the effect of product dissection on product redesign activities. Two specific research questions are addressed: 1) Does situated cognition, in the form of product dissection, improve product functionality during redesign exercise?, and 2) Does situated cognition, again in the form of product dissection, affect the creativity during product redesign? In this study, three sections of first-year students in two different locations – The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) and Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T)– performed product redesign using coffee makers. The redesigned products have been analyzed with respect to both depth (detail level) and creativity. Based on our results, we find that situated cognition, in the form of product dissection, improves product functionality during redesign and positively affects creativity. The implications of these results are also discussed.  \nKey Words: product dissection, situated cognition theory, product redesign  \nINTrODuCTION  \nAccording to Ferguson [1] and Petroski [2], modern students are less prepared for success in engineering because they spend a significant amount of time using computers and doing less  \nsummer 2013 1  \nadvances in engineering education  \na study on situated cognition: Product dissection’s effect on redesign activities  \n“hands on” activities. Findings by other entities such as the Federal Government, industry and engineering societies also noticed a decline in the quality of undergraduate engineering education [3,4] . Since 1991, collegiate engineering programs have begun to incorporate product dissection [5-7], a technique used by many corporations, into curricula to improve engineering education.  \nIn industry, engineers usually use product dissection as the first step for benchmarking: “a systematic way to identify, understand, and creatively evolve superior, products, services, designs, equipment, processes, and practices to improve [an] organization’s real performance” [8] . Competitive benchmarking is a common practice in the automotive industry in manufacturers such as General Motors [9], Chrysler [10], and Ford [10], as well as suppliers such as Lear, Johnson Controls, TRW and Motorola [11-13] . The reasons for the proliferation of this practice are many, but they may be best summed up by auto industry analyst Lindsay Brook,(quoted by Hoffman on the importance of competitive teardowns) “as much as you think you know, nothing beats picking up the parts, feeling them, weighing them, and knowing the processes that made them” [9] .  \nThe practice of benchmarking is not solely used to learn from competitors’ products; it is often used to improve a company’s own products through the internal benchmarking process. The annual Supplier Innovation Challenge, hosted by Whirlpool, is an example of corporate internal benchmarking [14] . The competition encourages suppliers to dissect Whirlpool products to identify potential cost reductions, quality improvements, and innovative ideas. With these types of activities showing measurable improvements for the corporations, savings of $7 million in the Whirlpool case [14], product dissection has caught the eye of many engineering educators.  \nThe premise of integrating product dissection into the engineering curriculum – particularly at the undergraduate level – has been to enable students to apply engineering principles coupled with sig","cbCaicoit73LbZ0n","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicoit73LbZ0n","pdf",2319841,15,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Problem background and motivation\n## Product dissection in industry and education\n## Research rationale and cognitive framework","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study examines how product dissection, interpreted through situated cognition theory, affects student cognition during product redesign, specifically functionality and creativity.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the research conducted and what products are used?\",\"answer\":\"Three sections of first-year students at Penn State and Missouri University of Science and Technology perform product redesign using coffee makers.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the two research questions addressed?\",\"answer\":\"(1) Whether situated cognition via product dissection improves product functionality during redesign exercises, and (2) whether it influences creativity during product redesign.\"}]","A study on situated Cognition: Product Dissection’s effect on redesign Activities | PDF",1792067132,38]