International Networked Teams for Engineering Design
Course Description
Course Description

OBJECTIVES:

    Customer-driven fast innovation is the fundamental process underlying the success of engineering of the future. This course is designed to help students understand the fast innovation strategies that lay the foundation for the sustained competitiveness of US manufacturing industry. Through this course, student will learn service differentiation, fast innovation process, and disruptive innovation. Students will also learn how the design process and fast innovation project management are conducted by dispersed international engineering teams. Rapid esponse of product design, innovation processes, oral communication, product customization, entrepreneurship, written documentation in direct response to customer desires, and professional behavior across corporate and social cultures are stressed. The class will also serve as a research laboratory for creating a better understanding of the process of rapid response to customer input.

COURSE OUTCOMES:At the end of this course, students are expected to:

 

·    Understand cultural, language, power and trust issues that can hinder dispersed teaming.

·    Understand concepts, models, and applications of Fast Innovation and Rapid Response Manufacturing.

·    Communicate effectively in a dispersed multi-cultural global environment.

·    Utilize virtual reality cyber tools that facilitate fast innovation and effective dispersed teaming.

·   Conduct fast innovation projects using knowledge of mass customization and rapid response engineering, in multi-cultural globally dispersed teams.


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