TY - GEN
T1 - Navigating the barriers to interdisciplinary design education
T2 - ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2010
AU - Simpson, Timothy W.
AU - Parkinson, Matthew
AU - Celento, Dave
AU - Chen, Wei
AU - McKenna, Ann
AU - Colgate, Ed
AU - Norman, Don
AU - Papalambros, Panos
AU - Gonzalez, Richard
AU - Roth, Bernard
AU - Leifer, Larry
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Evidence suggests that transformational innovation occurs at the intersection of multiple disciplines rather than isolated within them. Design-being both pervasive and inherently interdisciplinary-has the power to transcend many disciplines and help break down the departmental "silos" that hinder such collaborative efforts. Many universities are now struggling to embrace the curricular innovations that are necessary to achieve and sustain interdisciplinary education. Given the already packed undergraduate engineering curricula, several universities have started to offer new design programs that span several disciplines at the masters and doctoral levels. In this paper, we examine the five interdisciplinary graduate design programs offered by three different universities-University of Michigan, Northwestern University, and Stanford University-that hosted the NSF Design Workshop Series in 2008-2009. Collectively, these programs represent "solutions" that span a variety of graduate degree offerings that are available and provide examples of ways to successfully navigate the barriers and hurdles to interdisciplinary design education. A recap of the NSF Design Workshop Series is also provided along with recommendations from the workshops to foster discussion and provide directions for future work.
AB - Evidence suggests that transformational innovation occurs at the intersection of multiple disciplines rather than isolated within them. Design-being both pervasive and inherently interdisciplinary-has the power to transcend many disciplines and help break down the departmental "silos" that hinder such collaborative efforts. Many universities are now struggling to embrace the curricular innovations that are necessary to achieve and sustain interdisciplinary education. Given the already packed undergraduate engineering curricula, several universities have started to offer new design programs that span several disciplines at the masters and doctoral levels. In this paper, we examine the five interdisciplinary graduate design programs offered by three different universities-University of Michigan, Northwestern University, and Stanford University-that hosted the NSF Design Workshop Series in 2008-2009. Collectively, these programs represent "solutions" that span a variety of graduate degree offerings that are available and provide examples of ways to successfully navigate the barriers and hurdles to interdisciplinary design education. A recap of the NSF Design Workshop Series is also provided along with recommendations from the workshops to foster discussion and provide directions for future work.
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U2 - 10.1115/DETC2010-28575
DO - 10.1115/DETC2010-28575
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80055011823
SN - 9780791844144
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
SP - 627
EP - 637
BT - ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2010
Y2 - 15 August 2010 through 18 August 2010
ER -