Paper

Reflecting on the Intent of Undergraduate Design Research

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Abstract

This paper discusses two research-focused Advanced Architecture Systems seminars in which the instructor’s personal research agenda was the impetus for the courses. With comparable student enrollment (year-level, total number, and construction experience), a common foundation to the research was established with consistent background knowledge given to the two upper-level elective courses. By mapping a shift of quantitative vs qualitative investigations, along with a subtle change in the timing of student buy-in, the author draws correlations to the substantial difference in the objectivity and sustained rigor adopted by the students in their final independent research.

Keywords: pedagogy, undergraduate research, research methods, design as scholarship

How to Cite:

Palagi, K., (2023) “Reflecting on the Intent of Undergraduate Design Research”, Building Technology Educators’ Society 2023(1), 36–42. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/btes.1931