ABSTRACT
Design research as a methodological stance or a perspective on educational research has drawn on multiple methodologies and theoretical perspectives in education and other fields. In this chapter, we examine a process of research that draws on an engineering view of the process of design. Recent reports (e.g., “The Engineer of 2020” [National Academy of Engineering, 2004]) have described the process of engineering as both an applied science and a means for advancing technical and scientific knowledge. Engineering primarily involves the design and development of products that operate in systems. It includes the process of design as well as the tangible products of design. This interaction between process and product is the similarity between education and engineering that we point to in this chapter.
