Manuscript received August 7, 2022; revised September 13, 2022; accepted September 26, 2022.
Abstract—Education is the most essential part in every
aspect of providing the quality of human resources. Thus, one of
the learning innovations to improve quality, especially for
children, is the engineering design process. The engineering
design process (EDP) is a set of processes that engineers use to
solve an issue. The purpose of this study is to find out the of EDP
on design prototypes of the elementary school. The application
of knowledge and capability through EDP were also able to
develop critical and creative thinking skills so that they can
solve problems, collaborate, and communicate. The method
adopted in this research is case study. Seventeen elementary
students from four different schools in three different cities in
province Riau, Indonesia, are selected as participants. Data are
collected through interviews and analyzed using a grounded
approach. Finding of this study EDP became an ability that
could involve students in the learning space and students were
also challenged to work collaboratively in groups that were
guided by researchers. From the designs made by students, the
level of ability to design student prototypes was dominated by
the level of the developing stage even to the level of the
continuous stage. The findings indicated that the activities using
EDP were able to help students to experience real learning and
find components that can be used to compound a tool and solve
real problems. The findings also indicate the need to reform
curriculum for teacher training programs through EDP to
include matters like design prototypes.
Index Terms—Ability design prototypes, engineering design
process, elementary school
Mahdum, M. Jaya Adi Putra, Anisa Noor Mukaromah, Daeng Ayub
Natuna, and Dina Syaflita are with Universitas Riau, Indonesia.
Dodi Suryana is with Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia.
*Correspondence: dodisuryana@upi.edu (D.S.)
Cite: M. Jaya Adi Putra, Mahdum, Anisa Noor Mukaromah, Daeng Ayub Natuna, Dina Syaflita, and Dodi Suryana*, "Development of the Engineering Design Process (EDP) on the Ability to Design Prototypes to Increase Natural Disaster Mitigation for Elementary Schools in Indonesia," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 1037-1050, 2023.
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