Track: Engineering Education

Abstract

This article describes case studies with respect to the establishment of so-called classification schemes used in engineering design education within the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), former University of Applied Sciences, Germany. The described techniques aim at providing undergraduate students with examples for systematic product development and fostering and stimulating student’s creativity. It serves also as a guideline for conducting engineering design projects embedded within the curriculum of their studies. The described procedures are based on existing design methodology and long term experience of the authors in giving respective design lectures and in conducting engineering projects with students and enterprises as well. Eventually, by taking advantage of the approach, a patent and innovative product is presented.