An effective product design process demands cross functional teamwork and involvement of downstream departments to interact and collaborate at the initial design phase. While cross-functional teamwork and collaboration is also important for effective learning and soft skills development of engineering students. This cross functional team work can be effectively taught by using Concurrent Engineering (CE) approach, which ensures maximum utilization of resources with reduced lead time for projects designing. The paper presents the pedagogical approach for team based learning as well as New Product Design (NPD) by implementing CE approach for effective time management, team collaboration and innovative output. The project was based on designing a low friction tool for incremental sheet forming (ISF) by the Industrial engineering (IE) students, working in the form of different functional teams such as product design and analysis, process planning, manufacturing, CE and Project Management (PM), to streamline the flow of information and collaboration among teams. After completion of the project, a student feedback survey was also conducted which showed a positive response from students about project and methodology. Thus concurrent engineering applied for NPD not only enhanced students working potential and understanding of the product designing processes but also proposed a novel product prototype

Keywords—Active learning, cross-functional teams, concurrent engineering, new product design, pedagogical approach.