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Author(s): | Leite, M. Silva, J. Almeida, I. |
Date: | 2013 |
Title: | Creative Teaching of New Product Development to Operations Managers |
Volume: | 7 |
Number: | 10 |
Pages: | 880-886 |
ISSN: | 2010-376X |
Keywords: | Teaching Engineering to Non-specialists Operations Managers Education Teamwork Product Design and Development Market- driven NPD Curriculum development |
Abstract: | New Product Development (NPD) has got its roots on an Engineering background. Thus, one might wonder about the interest, opportunity, contents and delivery process, if students from soft sciences were involved. This paper addressed «What to teach?» and «How to do it?», as the preliminary research questions that originated the introduced propositions. The curriculum-developer model that was purposefully chosen to adapt the coursebook by pursuing macro/micro strategies was found significant by an exploratory qualitative case study. Moreover, learning was developed and value created by implementing the institutional curriculum through a creative, hands-on, experiencing, problem-solving, problem-based but organized teamwork approach. Product design of an orange squeezer complying with ill-defined requirements, including drafts, sketches, prototypes, CAD simulations and a business plan, plus a website, written reports and presentations were the deliverables that confirmed an innovative contribution towards research and practice of teaching and learning of engineering subjects to non-specialist operations managers candidates. |
Peerreviewed: | Sim |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | BRU-RI - Artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com arbitragem científica |
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