1 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING AND PRODUCT DESIGN EDUCATION 12-13 SEPTEMBER 2019, DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN, MANUFACTURE AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, UNITED KINGDOM SKETCHNOTING COMPARED, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness 1 , Haley Grote 1 and Mary Murphy 1 1 Iowa State University ABSTRACT This visual paper compares different approaches to teaching and learning sketchnoting in electrical engineering and industrial design education. Sketchnoting is a visual note-taking and sense-making methodology, which breaks down complexity using simple shapes and text, treating the page as an open canvas. Due to its simplicity in terms of visual fdelity and detailing, it has broad applications ranging from explanatory observation and sense-making, to exploratory collaborative visual thinking. Over the course of three years, sketchnoting has been taught in the classroom and in workshops reaching close to 1000 students, faculty, and staff across this campus. Several studies have been conducted in regard to investigating the effectiveness of sketchnoting for lecture note-taking, study note-development, ideation, planning, and group ideation. Comparing electrical engineering students to industrial design students the former face a higher barrier to sketchnoting. The latter are getting exposed to traditional observational drawing and sketching commonly starting in their frst year of study. Sketching is reinforced focused on product ideation sketching and high fdelity photo-realistic rendering. Traditionally, engineering education does not emphasise sketching in such an in depth manner although it requires an essential ability to visually communicate and explore problem spaces. This paper visualizes different learning and teaching styles as well as how sketchnoting creates meaning for both disciplines. Keywords: sketchnoting, visual sense-making, creative confdence 1 INTRODUCTION Over the past ten years sketchnoting has gained more and more traction resulting in it being increasingly implemented into the curriculum [1] [2] [3] [4]. Originally conceived as visual note-taking framework, sketchnoting provides an approach to visually synthesize what was heard seen and thought using simple visuals, frames, connectors, and text [5]. Complex information can be broken down using this framework to explore and visualize problems as well as to develop high-level concepts [6] [7]. As such this paper visually explores different learning and teaching styles as they pertain to electrical engineering and industrial design frst, to then explore sketchnoting and its effectiveness in both contexts. Questions that informed this research: 1) How is sketchnoting used in electrical engineering and industrial design? 2) Does sketchnoting foster a sense of creativity? 3) What is the role of sketchnoting in each discipline? Figure 1. Information processing