Abstract
Over the past few years, Social Product Development
(SPD) has emerged as a new trend to improve traditional
engineering design and product realization processes. SPD
involves the concepts of crowdsourcing, mass collaboration,
customer co-creation, and most recently cloud-based design
and manufacturing. One of the key characteristics of SPD is to
apply social computing techniques (e.g., social networking sites
and online communities) to support different phases of product
realization processes. In line with this trend, our objective is to
help our students become familiar with this paradigm shift and
learn how to solve engineering design problems in a distributed
and collaborative setting. Consequently, we have experimented
with introducing some aspects of SPD into one of our graduate
level engineering design courses. In this paper, we (1) introduce
a SPD process that is implemented in the course, (2) present a
case study from one of the design teams, and (3) share our
experience and lessons with respect to the implementation of
the SPD process.
(SPD) has emerged as a new trend to improve traditional
engineering design and product realization processes. SPD
involves the concepts of crowdsourcing, mass collaboration,
customer co-creation, and most recently cloud-based design
and manufacturing. One of the key characteristics of SPD is to
apply social computing techniques (e.g., social networking sites
and online communities) to support different phases of product
realization processes. In line with this trend, our objective is to
help our students become familiar with this paradigm shift and
learn how to solve engineering design problems in a distributed
and collaborative setting. Consequently, we have experimented
with introducing some aspects of SPD into one of our graduate
level engineering design courses. In this paper, we (1) introduce
a SPD process that is implemented in the course, (2) present a
case study from one of the design teams, and (3) share our
experience and lessons with respect to the implementation of
the SPD process.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Event | ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conferences IDETC/CIE 2013 - Portland, Oregon, USA United States Duration: 4 Aug 2013 → 7 Aug 2013 |
Conference
| Conference | ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conferences IDETC/CIE 2013 |
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| Country/Territory | USA United States |
| City | Portland, Oregon |
| Period | 4/08/13 → 7/08/13 |
Keywords
- Social Product Development
- Design
- Design Education