Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Projects in Cooperation with Industrial Partners

摘要

Illustrative results of a number of student interdisciplinary team innovative design projects performed by engineering and industrial designers, and consulted by specialized experts are introduced in this paper. Projects have been managed and solved using the "Knowledge integrated design" (KID) comprehensive approach different from the 'Theory based approaches' like "Axiomatic Design" and/or "Theory of Technical Systems based Design", as well as from traditional "Instructive", "Intuitive", and/or "Trial and Error/Success" prevailing approaches used for design problem solving. The mentioned KID strategy stems from a systematic 'map' of descriptive and prescriptive "Engineering Design Science" (EDS) knowledge obtained both from theory and practice. Projects being solved by students and staff of University of West Bohemia were assigned, consulted and co-evaluated in cooperation with industrial partners from Czech Republic and abroad. Real design projects were analogously managed and solved for industrial and institutional partners like Linet s.r.o., MemBrain s.r.o., Autodesk ltd., etc.