MAPPING DESIGN BRIEFS AND RESULTS OVER A DECADE OF UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY STUDENT PROJECTS

Sara Figueiredo; Vikki Eriksson; Tua Björklund; Kalevi Ekman

doi:10.35199/EPDE.2022.52

MAPPING DESIGN BRIEFS AND RESULTS OVER A DECADE OF UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY STUDENT PROJECTS

Sara Figueiredo, Vikki Eriksson, Tua Björklund, Kalevi Ekman

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This research focuses on navigating the complexity of a modern approach to product development in the educational context, revolving around how to best equip future product developers. The PdP (Product development Project) course at Aalto University has been running for 25 years and is considered a success in what concerns Industry-Academia cooperation. Many changes have occurred in industry, education, and students' profiles during the last decade. Collaborative projects became substantially more complex and showed a significant degree of trans disciplinarity. This paper analyses the wide repository of data related to the PdP course to classify characteristics of industry project briefs and the nature of multidisciplinary knowledge used during their development. The findings suggest industrial partners favour providing design briefs with relatively high degrees of novelty and uncertainty in the course. It was also found that breakthrough types of projects have resulted in the most balanced disciplinary contributions to the project outcomes, whereas derivative projects have leaned on mechanical engineering. More conceptual research and development projects emphasize design and business, and platform projects have varied widely. The project typology and profiles can be of help to educators, students, and industry representatives alike in scoping and planning university-industry project-based courses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education
Subtitle of host publication	Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022
Editors	Erik Bohemia, Lyndon Buck, Hilary Grierson
Publisher	The Design Society
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-912254-16-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.35199/EPDE.2022.52
Publication status	Published - 2022
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education - London, United Kingdom Duration: 8 Sept 2022 → 9 Sept 2022 Conference number: 24

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Name	Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022

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Conference	International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education
Abbreviated title	E&PDE
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	08/09/2022 → 09/09/2022

Keywords

design education
live projects
Product development
university-industry liaison

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Figueiredo, S., Eriksson, V., Björklund, T., & Ekman, K. (2022). MAPPING DESIGN BRIEFS AND RESULTS OVER A DECADE OF UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY STUDENT PROJECTS. In E. Bohemia, L. Buck, & H. Grierson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022 Article EPDE2022/1197 (Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022). The Design Society. https://doi.org/10.35199/EPDE.2022.52

Figueiredo, Sara ; Eriksson, Vikki ; Björklund, Tua et al. / MAPPING DESIGN BRIEFS AND RESULTS OVER A DECADE OF UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY STUDENT PROJECTS. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022. editor / Erik Bohemia ; Lyndon Buck ; Hilary Grierson. The Design Society, 2022. (Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022).

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Figueiredo, S , Eriksson, V , Björklund, T & Ekman, K 2022, MAPPING DESIGN BRIEFS AND RESULTS OVER A DECADE OF UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY STUDENT PROJECTS. in E Bohemia, L Buck & H Grierson (eds), Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022., EPDE2022/1197, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022, The Design Society, International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, London, United Kingdom, 08/09/2022. https://doi.org/10.35199/EPDE.2022.52

MAPPING DESIGN BRIEFS AND RESULTS OVER A DECADE OF UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY STUDENT PROJECTS. / Figueiredo, Sara ; Eriksson, Vikki ; Björklund, Tua et al.
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Figueiredo S , Eriksson V , Björklund T , Ekman K. MAPPING DESIGN BRIEFS AND RESULTS OVER A DECADE OF UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY STUDENT PROJECTS. In Bohemia E, Buck L, Grierson H, editors, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022. The Design Society. 2022. EPDE2022/1197. (Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Disrupt, Innovate, Regenerate and Transform, E and PDE 2022). doi: 10.35199/EPDE.2022.52

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