Having a real prototype of your own product design – small effort but big eureka moment for students

[EN] This paper presents a project-based product design course, which is the only course on product design in our curriculum. We noticed that the building of a prototype is often omitted in academic teaching. However, students benefit from building a prototype of their design. Hence, we reduced the...

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Autores: Riess, Christian, Walter, Michael, Tyroller, Maria, Gomolka, Lisa, Augustin, Johannes, Altieri, Mike
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/192481
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/192481
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Project based learning (PBL)
Design education
Project management
Sustainable design
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Sumario:[EN] This paper presents a project-based product design course, which is the only course on product design in our curriculum. We noticed that the building of a prototype is often omitted in academic teaching. However, students benefit from building a prototype of their design. Hence, we reduced the theoretical content to give students time to design and build a prototype. To illustrate the course two student projects are shown. We want to motivate lecturers to introduce prototyping to courses, since our experience is that the benefits of building a prototype outweigh the decrease in theoretical knowledge.