Conference paper 2011

Local co-education in industrial design and product development: A real case simulation - Five teams, five companies

TM
Terroso, Miguel
 SR
Simoes, Ricardo
DS 69: Proceedings of E and PDE 2011, the 13th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education
Conference · pp. 609-614
Abstract

The present work aims at identifying how an effective project-based learning approach, focused on meeting real product development needs of local companies, can be implemented. The main issue is determining how project-based learning can be successfully employed to ensure students acquire the skills and knowledge required by companies. Towards this end, we propose a model for co-education, materialized and validated in a final-year industrial design degree course, with student groups working in cooperation with local SMEs. The proposed approach differs from others in the literature in 3 key features: it is prescriptive, it considers the final result (not just the process), and it involves local companies throughout the development stages. The developed work represents a contribution to an improved understanding of project-based learning and co-education.

Keywords

Author Keywords

Project-Based Learning industrial design Product Development Co-education Industrial collaboration

Index Keywords

Education computing Product design Students Project based learning industry Project-based learning approach Product development Student groups Key feature Development stages Co-education Industrial collaboration Real-case simulations
Author Affiliations
School of Technology, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Barcelos, Braga, Portugal
School of Technology, Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Barcelos, Braga, Portugal, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Braga, Portugal
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  • EID 2-s2.0-84859221586
  • Language English