IMProVe 2011 - Proceedings
IMProVe 2011 - Proceedings
IMProVe 2011 - Proceedings
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Teaching Product Design and Drawing History<br />
to the development of more specific CAD Systems that helped the design task of Chemical<br />
Engineering.<br />
Keywords: Graphic representation, chemical engineering, history<br />
Corresponding Author: Irene Sentana<br />
Tel.: (+0034)965903654<br />
e-mail: Irene.sentana@ua.es<br />
Address: Department of Graphic Expression and Cartography. University of Alicante P.O. Box 99.<br />
03080, Spain.<br />
Use of an Open-Source PLM solution<br />
to improve teamwork performance in product design courses<br />
P. Sanin (a), R. Mejia-Gutierrez (b)<br />
(a) Department of Product Design Engineering, Universidad EAFIT<br />
(b) Department of Product Design Engineering, Universidad EAFIT<br />
Abstract:<br />
As Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategies are getting more and more common<br />
worldwide, developing countries have the increasing industrial need of engineers trained<br />
on these technologies. This is motivating academic institutions to tackle this issue by<br />
integrating PLM in their curriculums. This paper describes a pilot implementation of a PLM<br />
strategy in a Product Design Project Course at EAFIT University. The PLM strategy is used<br />
to support the development of the design process and teamwork performed by students.<br />
During two consecutive academic periods the course was analyzed, a PLM strategy was<br />
prepared and executed, and monitoring was carried out to obtain comparative data on<br />
the success of the implementation. An evaluation was performed on the role this<br />
implementations can have in improving drawbacks that usually arise during the<br />
development of collaborative design projects amongst students. Open-Source PLM<br />
Software was employed to facilitate future application of these tools by the students<br />
themselves in their future employments.<br />
Keywords: Collaborative Design, Open-Source, Product Lifecycle Management, Projectbased<br />
learning, Teamwork.<br />
Corresponding Author: Pedro Sanin<br />
Tel.: (+57)3006144188<br />
e-mail: psaninpe@eafit.edu.co<br />
Address: Cr.48-7No.186 Medellin, Colombia.<br />
June 15 th – 17 th , <strong>2011</strong>, Venice, Italy<br />
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