Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Supporting engineering innovation and design by a multidisciplinary master's program
Jönköping University, School of Engineering, JTH, Industrial Engineering and Management. Jönköping University, School of Engineering, JTH. Research area Industrial Production. School of Technology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4853-3140
Linköpings Universitet.
2013 (English)In: Proceedings of the 9th International CDIO Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 9 –13, 2013, 2013Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The aim of this paper is to reflect on lessons learned from a master's program with a multidisciplinary approach. The rapidly developing technology and specialization in society, business, industry and labor puts a demand on education to provide specialist skills in various technical fields. Paradoxically, the increasing complexity also demands skills from different disciplines, such as understanding human capabilities to handle technically complex systems and adapting technology to the design of organizational and individual working conditions in different workplaces and businesses. Therefore, knowledge and experience from engineers often need to be combined with skills and experience from the domain of behavioral and health scientists in order to obtain good usability and system performance. It is not, however, an easy task to combine experiences from different domains of expertise, as diverse traditions are deeply institutionalized by different approaches and research platforms and not easily adapted and integrated within engineering faculty. The master’s program reported on in this paper is an example of promoting a multidisciplinary approach contributing to an effective CDIO implementation. The design of the master’s program includes a combination of courses from a number of scientific disciplines with teachers who represent different theoretical areas, practical skills and in addition a careful mix of examination forms. Furthermore, the students' different backgrounds and learning traditions as engineers, behavioral and health scientists create a platform with excellent opportunities to learn from each other in order to develop new and innovative ways of thinking and approaching design and business development. It also offers opportunities to experience and reflect on the cultural contradictions between educational disciplines and practice.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2013.
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-23136OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-23136DiVA, id: diva2:688433
Conference
The 9th International CDIO Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 9 – 13, 2013
Available from: 2014-01-16 Created: 2014-01-16 Last updated: 2022-06-10Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

CDIO Multidisciplinary Master(376 kB)204 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 376 kBChecksum SHA-512
9ebc3310d6deb68e0a2200dfce6a8fed3e03bd4bdfe9536fac2a8b018783cf89e40d7392c83960466fd5bbc3f2f41b6e30fb52f9d5bee200c9ffb04721d0dcbb
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Other links

Fulltext

Authority records

Karltun, Anette

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Karltun, Anette
By organisation
JTH, Industrial Engineering and ManagementJTH. Research area Industrial Production
Engineering and Technology

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 205 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 570 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf