Millwrights to mechatronics: The merits of multi-disciplinary engineering

King, Tim

doi:10.1016/0957-4158(94)e0025-l

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“…King argues that the fragmentation of engineering disciplines stifles engineering design creativity through "the narrower perspective afforded by a high degree of specialism" [29].…”

Section: Silos and Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Engineering Design Competency: Perceived Barriers to Effective Engineering Design Education

Strong¹,

Stiver²

2011

PCEEA

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The NSERC Chairs in Design Engineering have developed a white paper on Engineering Design Competency. The Engineering Design Competency document was created to stimulate activity in engineering schools and provide a recommended knowledge and skills guideline for engineering educators. However, engineering schools and individual faculty face a number of barriers in their efforts to excel in engineering design education. To make progress, these barriers must be recognized and understood. This paper will provide a brief review and discussion of five leading barriers to the advancement of engineering design education. The barriers covered are: tenure and promotion policies and procedures, hiring practices, academic structure, funding, and facilities. These barriers are mutually supportive which compounds the challenge. The paper and presentation will also provide some examples of best practices in overcoming these barriers. The goal of these examples is to provide evidence that none of these barriers are absolute, that all can be overcome, and that some engineering schools are succeeding.

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“…King argues that the fragmentation of engineering disciplines stifles engineering design creativity through "the narrower perspective afforded by a high degree of specialism" [29].…”

Section: Silos and Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Engineering Design Competency: Perceived Barriers to Effective Engineering Design Education

Strong¹,

Stiver²

2011

PCEEA

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“…In the construction of the Virtual Enterprise Ontology we followed whenever possible the methodology for developing ontologies outlined by Uschold and King (1995). This methodology includes the following steps: identify purpose, build the ontology (capture, code, integrate existing ontologies), evaluation and documentation.…”

Section: Issues In the Ontology Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has been formally defined by the European Community as 'The synergistic integration of mechanical engineering with electronics and intelligent computer control in the design and manufacture of products and process". A broader definition of mechatronics in the context of machine and product design is (King, 1995): "Mechatronics is the design and manufacture of products and systems possessing both a mechanical functionality and an integrated algorithmic control". Anyway, mechatronics has gained currency in recent years by providing a multi-disciplinary approach to engineering design in which a symbiosis of mechanical, electrical, electronic, computer and software engineering is used to create new design solutions to engineering problems.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-engineering for Sustainable Industrial Production

Camarinha-Matos¹

1997

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“…King [4] argued in his in au gu ral l e c t u r e th at " virtually all engineering was once the province of millwrights, whose craft had become wide reaching." He continued to say "the professions of the mechanical and civil engineers had not yet been defined or differentiated, the millwright was the closest approximation to both."…”

Section: Generalism Versus Specialismmentioning

confidence: 99%