... interpretations of industrial needs, research insights, educational ideas, and identification of core innovative engineering competencies. ( Andreasen, McAloone, and Hansen, 2000, “On the Teaching of Product Development and Innovation,” Proceedings of International Workshop on Education for Engineering Design...

... research skills. Our findings reinforce the importance of providing students with real multidisciplinary team experience for NPD projects and suggest that greater emphasis be given to the teaching and practice of “softer” skills, such as listening, negotiation, empathy, and observation. The research also...

...M. Graham; A. Slocum; R. Moreno Sánchez This paper describes an effective method for teaching design in a deterministic manner that is especially effective for under-represented students (e.g., culture, race, gender, physical disability, personality, etc.). Ten years ago we postulated that students...

...Ben Zion Sandler Much of the time spent on engineering calculations and that devoted to teaching mathematics-associated disciplines can be considerably reduced, since the application of mathematics to engineering needs is well defined: computations in engineering must be completed within certain...