Industrial Partnership in Design Education - Experiences from EGPR Course

DS 69: Proceedings of E&PDE 2011, the 13th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, London, UK, 08.-09.09.2011

Year: 2011
Editor: Kovacevic, Ahmed, Ion, William, McMahon, Chris, Buck, Lyndon and Hogarth, Peter
Author: Pavkovic, Neven; Marjanovic, Dorian; Kovacevic, Ahmed; Fain, Nusa
Series: E&PDE
Section: Industrial collaboration
Page(s): 603-608

Abstract

Partnership with industry is one of the main means to expose students to engineering practice. This paper presents experiences from the European Global Product Realization (EGPR) course jointly organised by six European universities. It attempts to extract desirable characteristics of a project and an industrial partner suitable for collaboration in practical design education. Particular attention is drawn to the learning outcomes which could suit this multidisciplinary and multicultural academic enterprise. Learned lessons will be applied to improve future EGPR courses.

Keywords: Industrial partnership, EGPR

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