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Visiting Professors' Scheme
The 2009 Summer School for Teachers of Engineering Design
Supported by the Design Council
'Integrating Innovation
into the Engineering Curriculum'
6-9 September 2009
Mechanical, Materials and
Manufacturing Engineering Coates Building,
University Campus, University of Nottingham
Outline
Ever struggled to locate,
define and structure open-ended, stimulating design
projects for your students?
The main 'work' of this summer
school is aimed at synthesising the combined
insights, skills and experiences of all the
participants to develop engineering project teaching
material for your own courses. Once again, it is a
residential 3-day activity-centred event appropriate
for both new and established design teachers in any
of the major engineering disciplines. The 2009
School will be focused on how the emerging emphasis
on design, creativity and innovation in engineering
arising from the Sir George Cox's 'Review of
Creativity in Business' and the Royal Academy of
Engineering's own 'Educating Engineers for the
21.Century' will influence project structuring and
project review/ assessment metrics within
engineering courses. These new contexts will be
explored by the summer school team in a series of
short, interactive sessions that explore the role of
open-ended projects and will assist in structuring
projects within a curriculum.
This biennial Summer School is
modelled around the successful approaches and energy
developed by the participants of the 2005 and 2007
Schools at Strathclyde and Northumbria. It will be
staffed by the same core team who offer combined
experience in engineering, design teaching and
industrial practice.
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Objectives
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To position university
engineering design teaching within some changing
contexts of professional practices
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To aid teachers in the
development of student competencies in
engineering design as required by UK SPEC
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To extend understanding
and implementation of the Royal Academy of
Engineering's 'design, creativity and
innovation' initiative for undergraduate
engineering courses
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To develop structures for
‘dealing with uncertainty’ in the definition,
conduct and review of open-ended design projects
within an engineering curriculum.
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To assist engineering
design teachers in developing 'project
programmes' that structure and provide the
skills and experiences to deliver these extended
student competencies in engineering design
Programme Outline
Sunday 6. September (14.00-17.30)
Arrival: Check into University accommodation
Opening: Introductions/Warming Up
Integrating Innovation into the Engineering Curriculum
Dinner: The Hemsley (Staff Club)
Monday 7. September
CONTEXTS
Innovation & Engineering Council project
requirements presentation, discussion.
The Innovation agenda?
'Upstream and downstream'.... before and after
'engineering'
PEOPLE and USERS People
Centred Design Workshop Session #1 Implicit
Knowledge exercise
OPPORTUNITY RECOGNITION
‘The best way to have a good idea is to have a
lot of ideas’. - and some method of selection!
Lunch
Principles of Sustainable
Design: Integrating sustainability into project
design
Designing a project
strategy What is a Design project?
Summer School Thematic
Project Briefing
SYNTHESIS
SEARCHING FOR PROJECTS Workshop Session #2
Team-centred opportunity searching. Evaluating
and mapping projects typologies
Hot Fork Buffet: The
Hemsley (Staff Club)
Tuesday 8. September
Workshop Sessions #3:
Teamwork Development Team Feedback: developing
deliverables
Continuation: MDF
development, presentation challenges
Lunch
INDUSTRIAL VISIT 'Upstream
and downstream' Innovation in action
Summer School Engineers'
Dinner After Dinner Speaker: TBA
Wednesday 9. September
Workshop Session #4 Team-
centre development
Team- centred resolution
and presentation
tea/coffee
Presentation of Outcomes
Peer review and debate
Feedback for analysis
Lunch
Departure
Summer School Team
Geoff Kirk FREng RDI
As Chief
Design Engineer – Civil Aerospace, Geoff was
responsible for the conceptual design of a number of
the latest Rolls Royce jet engines to enter service
and in 2002 he was awarded the Prince Philip
Designers Prize in recognition of a lifetime of
outstanding achievement in the field of aero-engine
design. He is currently a Royal Academy of
Engineering Visiting Professor in Innovation,
President of the Institution of Engineering
Designers and has served on the Design Council since
January 2005. His work was recognised in 1998 by the
award of the Royal Aeronautical Society British
Bronze Medal and in 2002 by the Institution of
Engineering Designers’ Gerald Frewer Memorial
Trophy. He was appointed to the Faculty of Royal
Designers for Industry in 2001.
Norman McNally
Norman possesses a breadth of educational experience
in the design and teaching of undergraduate and
postgraduate design courses. His pioneering work
within Product Design Engineering at the GSA and GU
won the UK’s inaugural Sir Misha Black Award for
Innovation in Design Education. He is currently a
Royal academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in
Innovation in DMEM at Strathclyde, Studio Master
within the new Masters in Product Service-Systems
Design at Poliecnico Milano and consultant advisor
in programme development to the Madrid Instituto
Europeo di Design.
Simon Mosey
Simon has held
research and management posts at BP and Courtaulds
and he is currently Deputy Director of the Institute
for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Nottingham
University Business School. He has developed
innovative entrepreneurship and innovation
management training seminars with a focus upon the
creation and exploitation of scientific and
technology based inventions to managers based within
multinational corporations, SMEs, local government,
the health sector and academe across Europe and
Asia. Specifically he focuses upon idea generation,
idea evaluation and nascent business development. He
has published his research within journals including
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, The Journal of
Technology Transfer, Technology Analysis & Strategic
Management and the International Journal of
Production and Operations Management.
Application and enquires
Applications to attend the Summer School can be made
via the link below;
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/schoolm3/general/Design.php
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