Title :
Teaching IPPD and teamwork in an engineering design course
Author :
MacKay, Brian ; Wurst, Karl ; Barker, Keith
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Connecticut Univ., Storrs, CT, USA
Abstract :
The emphasis of many companies is moving towards integrated product and process development (IPPD), in which engineers work in multi-disciplinary teams in order to create a product with higher reliability, shorter production time, lower cost and a concern for the environment. In response to the needs of industry, college/university courses must help engineering students to be effective members of diverse teams, to be aware of industry practice and to understand the product life-cycle. This paper highlights our new teamwork-oriented curriculum, our methods for assessment and our current results
Keywords :
design engineering; educational courses; engineering education; production; teaching; assessment methods; college courses; engineering design course; engineering students; environmental concerns; industry needs; industry practice; integrated product/process development; multi-disciplinary teams; product life-cycle; product reliability; production costs; production time; teaching; teamwork; teamwork-oriented curriculum; university courses; Costs; Design engineering; Education; Educational institutions; Engineering students; Industrial training; Manufacturing industries; Production; Reliability engineering; Teamwork;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE '96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3348-9
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1996.573050
