Dutch And Australian Experiences On Teaching Technical Innovation To Engineers And Product Designers
Research on industrial applicability of design methods (project motto: “it depends”) show that, more importantly than geographic differences, there are different disciplineworlds, having their own inherent design methods. For the education in Integrated Design Engineering it predicts that the subject order and curriculum build up have a strong influence on the results. This was confirmed in comparative experiments on educating Product Design Engineering (PDE) students with a different background which were carried out in Groningen, the Netherlands and in Melbourne, Australia. The paper will deal with the background and effects of these phenomena.