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Weds.2C: Workshop Session C: TE Research & Teaching Responses to the Future of Product System Engineering
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As researchers and practitioners, we are exposed to these trends every day. Let’s take a longer-term look: 2040 or 2050. What change in mindset are critical to adapt to these new trends; what are the sociotechnical barriers with an emphasis on gaps and needs. Also, awareness that these trends are happening at the same time. Not a dialogue on what the products should be, but a dialogue on our priorities, organization and missions. Requesting overall at least 90 minutes, up to 120 if available. Outline Let’s begin with several concrete examples of product system several trends happening at once: • Ships • Agriculture • Fashion • Mobility What are the trends: Changes in engineering practice: Overall: increased complexity and connected systems • Manufacturing • New materials • Sensors, Data, & Computation (AI) • Energy Transition • Sustainability/ Circular Economy • Supply Chain • Robotics and Automation Changes in us: mindset, how we organize for work, prioritize. How we research. How we teach. • Globalizations • Distributed Work • Counter trends: local production, de-centralization, platform, simplification… Provocative Questions Organized as team breakouts and Miro Boards. Very quick first introductions and demonstration by facilitators of a range of future NPD scenarios. First Part: Dialogue on Current State & Trends: Gaps. Mindset. Barriers. Small group breakout and facilitated discussion. Miro board. Report Back, common. 1. Please begin by reviewing the list of commonly cited trends in engineering. Is anything missing? Which do you believe are most significant? Most connected? 2. What gaps do you see between our current state of engineering professional practice and these trends? Second Part: Then a parallel breakout, one on research the other on education. Multiple teams per question given participant count. Breakouts may be by an affinity group focused on a particular learning / engineering community. Please begin by selecting a persona for context in which these questions will be discussed. 1. Future Education: o Who: What will be the profile of learnings and teachers given discussion in first part? (personas) o What: What are the primary new learning objectives given discussion in first part? Which of these capabilities are related to TE? o How: How will people learn to participate in successful future engineering projects? How will we organize and deliver learning to do so? (Note includes current traditional students). 2. Future Research How might research TE help us to deal with the gaps identified in the first part, for example the increasing complexity and integration of engineering projects? Please consider broadly aspects of research such as theory-building, frameworks, models, experiments, case studies, demonstrations. o Skills: What will be skills of the researcher? o Ways of organizing: culture, infrastructure, careers, rewards, governance… o Can we point to best practice (other than oneself!) examples that represent Not simply what we are already aware of critical skills today, but what differentiated or new research skills and projects |