• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.3-10
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• 2010

Human resources specialized in product development (PD) being essential in industry to enhance their competitiveness in the market with differentiated products, the PD curricula of domestic universities are in need of restructuring to better provide a comprehensive and diverse spectrum of knowledge as well as practical experiences for PD. We compared the PD curricula of selected domestic and foreign universities and identified advanced features of PD curricula. The major portion of the information used in our benchmarking of the seven, three domestic and four foreign, universities is obtained through their official websites. At domestic universities, the PD curricula comes in different sizes and is administered at the departmental level. On the other hand, each foreign university has her own unique form of PD curricula which is formulated on the firm basis of multidisciplinary collaboration among schools of Engineering, Management, and Arts with diversified program options ranging from giving course credits to offering various certificates and degrees. The industrial sponsorship in the form of financial support and mentorship at foreign universities is much more noticeable than at domestic universities. The survey results of the present study can be effectively utilized to develop an effective PD curriculum.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.203-207
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• 2006

기업의 시장개척과 경쟁 우위 확보에 있어 인간친화형 혁신 제품의 개발이 중요해지고 있다. 인간친화형 혁신 제품의 개발은 기술, 인간, 미학, 비즈니스와 경영, 윤리와 법에 대한 전공 지식 및 제품 개발 전 과정에 대한 통합적인 시각과 경험을 필요로 한다. 이를 위한 교육과정은 학제간 및 산학간 연계를 통해, 교과과정을 이수한 인력이 별도의 교육 없이 제품 개발 업무를 수행할 수 있도록 개발되어야 한다. 본 연구는 국내 대학의 산업공학, 기계공학, 산업디자인학과와 국외 MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Melon 대학의 제품 설계 및 개발 교육 프로그램을 대상으로 (1) 목표 및 대상 파악, (2) 교과과정 특성분석, (3) 운영 모델을 파악한다. 이를 바탕으로 국내외 현황에 대한 비교 분석 결과를 제시하고 대상과 목표, 이수방식 등에 따른 다양한 학제간/산학간/프로그램 운용 등에 필요한 모델을 정리하고 그 활용방안을 제안한다.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.5-11
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• 2008

Far greater than ever before is the present industrial demand for skilled professionals in innovative product design and development. Yet there is an apparent lack of a sufficient curricular provision for training design professionals in almost all engineering schools. The present study is to propose a systematic procedure for developing a strategy for building an innovative product design curriculum and demonstrate its application. The procedure consists of three major steps: strategic element derivation, task formulation, and task execution roadmap construction. The proposed procedure was applied to develop a modular curriculum (a cluster of several related courses) covering various subjects in relation to innovative product design and development. The procedure seems quite effective and useful for developing a curriculum that is strategically well differentiated based on the unique characteristics of a particular educational institute and its applicability seems not limited to a specific domain.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.20-30
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• 2005

Recently, a new education paradigm 'Self-directed Learning' has attracted considerable attention. Problem-Based Learning (PBL) has been recognized as methodology to help students expand scientific thinking and knowledge. improve applicability, develope critical knowledge, and creatively solve problems. There have been significant efforts to develope PBL-based courses in mechanical engineering. A new PBL-based, multi-disciplinary course 'Product Dissection and Design Reasoning' has been developed in this paper. The course examines the way in which products and machines work and is intended to show freshman or sophomore level students how fundamental physical principles relate to engineering practice through hands-on dissection experience : thus, the course emphasizes the importance of knowledge of the fundamental physics for design reasoning. The primary role of this course is to develop creative design manpower. This paper describes the philosophy and content of this course and presents results from one year of development.

• The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.142-146
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• 2011

In this paper, to invigorate elderly-friendly industry, a case study on curriculum for re-educational work of the field engineers is introduced. The curriculum has been developed to retrain technicians and engineers in IT-based elderly-friendly business industry, to help them develop elderly-friendly products, and it have been evolved by operating it and analyzing outcome and satisfaction levels since August in 2009. The re-education work of the field engineers are designed for invigorating the IT-based elderly-friendly business industry, based on the instruction system design(ISD) model. To develop IT-based elderly-friendly products, the elderly-friendly accessible design and the elderly-friendly living and health care equipment design are required. For the elderly-friendly accessible design, it consists of "Elderly-Friendly Engineering Based on Human Characteristics", "Color Sensibility and Universal Design for The Elderly", and "Design Understanding and Process". For the elderly-friendly living and health care equipment design, it consists of "Embedded System Design and Debugging Experiments for Elderly-Friendly IT Equipment", "Elderly-Friendly Android Implementation Design", and "Design and Experiments of Silver-care Android-based Smart Equipment".

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.198-202
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• 2006

다양한 신제품이 출시되고 제품의 수명 주기가 짧아지는 기업 환경에서, 시장 경쟁력을 갖추고 소비자의 요구사항에 적합한 제품개발의 중요성이 부각되면서, 이에 대응하는 대학 교육과정의 개발 및 운용이 필요하다. 본 연구는 혁신제품개발 모듈 교육과정 개발에 필요한 교육주제, 수업운영방식, 산학연계 방식에 대해 학생, 산업체 실무자의 의견을 조사하였다. 본 설문에서는 제품개발 관련 문헌조사를 통해 추출된 7개 부문(기획, 타당성 분석, Concept 개발, 제품 설계, 제조 공정 설계, 생산, 윤리와 법)의 46개 교육주제에 대해 교육 선호도와 실무 적용 중요도를 조사하였다. 또한, 기존 제품개발 관련 교과목들의 수업 구성 비율을 파악하고 희망 수업구성 비율, 수업 진행방식에 따른 요구사항, 실습 및 프로젝트 진행방식에 대한 희망사항을 조사하였다. 마지막으로, 본 연구는 산업체 실무자들로부터 산학연계 방식에 대한 의견을 수렴하였다. 본 연구에서 파악된 학생, 산업체 실무자들의 의견은 제품개발 교육과정 구축을 위해 유용한 정보로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.79-88
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• 2015

Creative economy has been characterized by ideas popularized commercialization. The commercialization of the idea is to develop a creative economy virtuous circle tool, entrepreneurship and start-ups for this serves as a key driver of the creative economy. Convergence, complex thinking and creative planning ability is always a lot from the 20s came a young man. So young age of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education, and is easily capable of founding a new culture is created by the right products and services they lead the more outstanding talent in the way of entrepreneurship creates even young and energetic national economy. Such a wide range of system implementation and curriculum development to complete the creative economy with ecology is also a very critical situation. The development of a systematic entrepreneurship curriculum that promote creative thinking and planning ability for creative convergence of economic times is a top priority. The present study considered that the early stages of convergence entrepreneurship program presents a convergence process of entrepreneurship education through a process-oriented research based on statistics.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.49-61
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• 2006

The objective of this study was to propose a new framework for the creative engineering in the product family design coursework. The idea of product family design is a good solution to fulfill customer's requirements and to respond quickly for the technology change. Mass customization based on product family and product platform is a new paradigm with variety and customization through flexibility and quick responsiveness. In this study, the subjects of product family, product platform, product family map, platform leveraging strategy, morphological matrix and module based product family design were reviewed and presented. A new idea generation scheme utilizing SCAMPER method was combined with the morphological matrix approach. For the effective product family and platform design, creative efforts and approaches were utilized and implemented in the coursework process. This will help students to develop creative thinking and approaches in the engineering problem solving.

• Archives of design research
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.209-218
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• 2000

The purpose of this study was to improve the curriculum for industrial design department in the junior colleges. In order to achieve the purpose, two methodologies were carried out. First is job analysis of the industrial designers who have worked in the small & medium manufacturing companies, second is survey for the opinions of professors in the junior colleges. Some results were as follows: 1. The period of junior college for industrial designers is 2 years according to present. But selectively 1 year of advanced course can be established. 2. The practice subjects same as computational formative techniques needed to product development have to be increased. In addition kinds of selection subjects same as foreign language, manufacturing process, new product information and consumer behavior investigation have to be extended. 3. The next subjects need to adjust the title, contents and hours. (1) The need of 3.D related subjects same as computer modeling, computer rendering, 3.D modeling was high. The use of computer is required to design presentation subjects. (2)The need of advertising and sale related subjects same as printing, merchandise, package, typography, photography was low, the need of presentation techniques of new product development was high. (3) The need of field practice, special lecture on practice and reading original texts related subjects was same as at present, but these are not attached importance to form. As the designers feel keenly the necessity of using foreign language, the need of language subject was high.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.11-18
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• 2008

Companies have been making considerable efforts to develop innovative products for better competitiveness in the market, however, the education curriculum for innovative product development (IPD) in domestic universities needs has not been well developed. The present study was intended to identify the needs of students and practitioners regarding teaching subjects, pedagogical methods, and industry-academia collaboration that can be reflected in the development of IPD education curriculum. Through a literature survey 46 IPD teaching subjects of 7 categories (planning, feasibility analysis, concept development, product design, manufacturing process design, production, and ethics & law) were selected. Opinions on the preferences and importances of the teaching subjects, pedagogical methods, and industry-academia collaboration were collected from 53 college students who took courses of product development and 36 practitioners working in product development. While the students preferred the balanced teaching of all the subject categories, the practitioners suggested planning and concept development be taught with high importance; 6 subjects (product development strategy, customer needs identification, market research, concept generation method, design ideation method, and ergonomic design) received high ratings of preference and importance. The students preferred the mix of various pedagogical methods (lecture, discussion, presentation, practice, and case study) and provided needs on each pedagogical method. Lastly, the students wanted an opportunity of learning through industry-academia collaboration and the practitioners provided ideas for mutual benefits between industry and academia. The needs of students and practitioners identified in the study can be effectively applied to develop a better IPD education curriculum.