• Architectural research
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.111-121
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• 2013

This paper examines the interdisciplinary practice within design realms including urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture and interior design. It discusses the pedagogical approaches at design schools to foster designers capable of design challenge with interdisciplinary skills. As the complexity of contemporary multicultural society increasingly requires a higher level of expertise in professional service, no individual designer can be expert in all fragmented expertise across the whole design and associated engineering areas. A designer, therefore, should rely on the expertise of other practitioners in areas where he or she doesn't possess proficiency and educational background. From this sense the need of interdisciplinary approaches across diverse range of design and engineering through the collaboration is rising. Historically most of discussion made on interdisciplinary approaches is limited to collaboration between architecture and supporting engineering. This paper focuses on the collaboration with design realms. Three case studies done in an interdisciplinary firm are explored, focusing on design process that is non-linear and complementary. Finally the integrative pedagogical approaches to provide students with more exposure to allied disciplines are navigated with exemplary student work from interdisciplinary design studio.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.51-60
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• 2013

The paper addresses an issue of industry-joint engineering education paradigm with the purpose of setting a new standard for engineering education by development and support of competitive curriculum for the interdisciplinary team-based product development, a specialized and innovative engineering education program. In the department of MSDE (Mechanical and System Design Engineering), students are educated via three major courses for targeting engineering design, Creative Engineering Design (freshman), Design Process (Senior), and Creative Product Development (Junior). All these courses are based on personal tool exercises for design software and hardware and team-project group activities of the students with other team members. This paper will briefly discuss the main focuses of these courses and case studies of the teaching results targeting the development of telecommunication device.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.21 no.46
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• pp.197-206
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• 1998

In recent years there has been a tremendous upsurge of interest in Shop Floor Control System (SFCS) design and analysis. We reviewed current computer-aided shop floor control system. It is concluded that current methodologies support, in a very restricted sense, these planning, scheduling, and monitoring activities and that enhanced performance can be achieved via an integrated approach. In this paper we present an interdisciplinary approach to the development and installing of sophisticated shop floor control systems. Interdisciplinary design will form the basis of designing SFCS in new knowledge intensive era. Interdisciplinary design means more than just applying knowledge from other domains, such as psychology and organization science to design of SFCS. The interdisciplinary approach is verified by an illustrative case study.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06c
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• pp.380-385
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• 2001

The paper presents a new multidisciplinary design optimization architecture using optimal sensitivity and coordination of interdisciplinary design variables. Original design problem is decomposed into a number of sub-problems that represent individual engineering analysis. The coupled effects between sub-problems are computed by interdisciplinary design variables. System level coordination is determined by optimal parameter sensitivity calculated by finite difference method. The proposed. MDO strategy is applied to a simplified model of rotorcraft blade design associated with structures and aerodynamic disciplines.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.14-26
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• 2018

The goal of this study was to explore topic defining patterns of students in interdisciplinary Capstone Design Class. Thematic analysis methodology was used to examine 85 Korean college students' lived experience of project topic generation which is for interdisciplinary capstone design class and Individual open-ended survey for constituted the data sources. Findings show four contexts of student's topic defining patterns using thematic analysis including (a) one leader's directed problem representation, (b) team common decision making after brainstorming, (c) empathy with professor proposed issue, (d) problems offered to students by corporate or research competitions. Based on research result, I could suggest instructional strategies of Capstone Design Class of teacher for helping their students' topic defining. It was necessary to minimize the opinions of the instructors at the beginning of class and minimize the number of team members. And also it provided a lot of opportunities to collaborate with companies in the topic selection process, it will help to develop the students' ability to determine the valuable topic in project.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.10-18
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• 2006

Today it is critical for all engineers to have the capability of interacting in teams with members of different background and to meet the challenges that they will encounters in their careers. To satisfy such needs multidisciplinary engineering-design courses are attracting more attentions than ever in the engineering education community. In this paper we analyze the learning effectiveness of interdisciplinary design teams in an engineering design course in Dongguk University. The comparison analysis between monodisciplinary teams and interdisciplinary ones demonstrates higher learning effectiveness of interdisciplinary teams. In addition, the student evaluation of learning effectiveness points out that communication skill is one of the most important factors for a successful project. Such results show that multidisciplinary design courses must gain wider acceptance in engineering education and engineering students must have more chances to experience multidisciplinary teamwork.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.314-314
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• 2005

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.117-125
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• 2008

Today it is critical for all engineers to have the capability of interacting in teams with members of different background and to meet the challenges that they will encounters in their careers. To satisfy such needs multidisciplinary engineering-design courses are attracting more attentions than ever in the engineering education community. In this paper we analyze abroad cases of engineering interdisciplinary design. And we suggest an activation strategy of engineering interdisciplinary design.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.93-94
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• 2005

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.59-67
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• 2014

This paper is about a case study of an interdisciplinary and intercultural collaborative design project course that has been offered for six years. The distinct characteristics of this course lie in that its students consist of those in two different disciplines, mechanical engineering and industrial design, and also in two different countries, Korea and Germany. The themes of the design project have been selected differently over the years, but always were related to transportation and, particularly, personal mobility devices. The paper first delineates the course and illustrates examples of the outcomes. Then, unique aspects and challenges of the course that have been observed through the six runs and that are associated with the intercultural and interdisciplinary nature are indicated and discussed. The author is convinced that this course has been successful in helping prepare the students for globally-operating manufacturing companies in the future. It is hoped that the findings from this course and the discussions contained in this paper would help those who plan to offer similar courses.