Guidelines to design engineering education in the twenty-first century for supporting innovative product development |
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Authors: | Maria Grazia Violante Enrico Vezzetti |
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Affiliation: | DIGEP-Department of Management and Production Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129, Torino, Italy |
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Abstract: | In the twenty-first century, meeting our technological challenges demands educational excellence, a skilled populace that is ready for the critical challenges society faces. There is widespread consensus, however, that education systems are failing to adequately prepare all students with the essential twenty-first century knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in life, career, and citizenship. The purpose of this paper is to understand how twenty-first century knowledge and skills can be appropriately embedded in engineering education finalised to innovative product development by using additive manufacturing (AM). The study designs a learning model by which to achieve effective AM education to address the requirements of twenty-first century and to offer students the occasion to experiment with STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) concepts. The study is conducted using the quality function deployment (QFD) methodology. |
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Keywords: | Quality function deployment science technology engineering and mathematics twenty-first century skills additive manufacturing learning/training model engineering education |
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