Innovation of Engineering Education via Global Automotive Development Project

  • Received : 2009.06.11
  • Accepted : 2009.07.22
  • Published : 2009.09.30

Abstract

The paper introduces an educational environment for multidisciplinary automotive development project made with other global institutions worldwide. The main objective is to accelerate students design and manufacturing skills, while giving them the experience of global communications for a large scale collaboration. This objective demands the intimate partnership between industrial design and engineering worldwide as well. Not only is the design and manufacturing portion of the project a challenge, but the students must organize the project teams together to incorporate different subsystem designs from other institutions, which, after all, requires constant communication and a truly team-oriented atmosphere for the global innovative engineering education.

본 논문은 세계 여러나라의 대학들이 다학제간 자동차 개발 프로젝트를 공동으로 수행함으로써 혁신적 공학교육 환경을 구축하기 위한 노력을 기술하였다. 이 프로젝트의 주 목적은 학생들로 하여금 신속한 설계와 제조에 대한 실질적 경험을 갖도록 하는 동시에 국제적 규모의 협업을 통하여 다른 국가의 다른 전공의 학생들과 의사전달 경험을 쌓도록 하는 것이다. 이를 위해서 먼저 산업디자인 전공학생과 공학전공 학생들간에 긴밀한 협조환경을 강조하였으며 이는 프로젝트에 있어서 설계와 제조간의 공조의 어려움 뿐만 아니라 서로 다른 전공의 특히다른 국가의 대학들의 학생들끼리 스스로 프로젝트 팀을 구성하고 분업하여 효율적으로 협업을 이루어 가야 한다는 점에서 중요한 교육적 시도임을 시사하였다. 또한 향후 각 대학에서는 지속적인 의사전달기술을 토대로 팀기반 협업환경에서의 설계교육을 강화하여 국제적 공학혁신 교육환경을 조성하기 위한 노력이 중요하다는 점을 제시하였다.

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