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An Integrated Framework to Support Design & Engineering Education

CARULLI, MARINA;BORDEGONI, MONICA;CUGINI, UMBERTO
2013-01-01
2013
The current particular critical moment for the Western industry, and the introduction of information technologies have profoundly changed the product development process. One of the most important modifications occurred is the integration of the two traditional fields of product design and product engineering into the new concept of industrial Design&Engineering. The consequent shift and the extension of the designer’s area of expertise concerning the product development process have led to amplify his typical knowledge: both more and more technical knowledge, and also knowledge more focused on conceptual issues and creativity.This trend is fostered by the intensive use of computer systems and also by various Design&Engineering courses, where it has been possible to experimentally observe the difficulty for students to learn the necessary stock of knowledge and to manage a wider product development process. However, the multidisciplinary approach to the product development process and to the related education issues are still based on tools and methods developed for a specific kind of user, or usually used in an unarranged way.The research presented in this paper aims at defining the guidelines for developing an integrated framework to support the Design&Engineering education and the multidisciplinary design process based on a structured integration of knowledge and tools currently used by the two main areas of reference. The paper will present the guidelines for the integrated framework and the experimental activities used for the framework validation. These activities have allowed the authors to check the framework usability during team design activities and also to verify its effectiveness in improving students’ learning capabilities. Some elements derived from the analysis of the experimental data demonstrate that both students and professional designers can use the framework to assist them throughout the design process and that the knowledge learning related to the project is fostered.
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