NEW JOB ROLES IN GLOBAL ENGINEERING – FROM EDUCATION TO INDUSTRIAL DEPLOYMENT
Year: 2011
Editor: Culley, S.J.; Hicks, B.J.; McAloone, T.C.; Howard, T.J. & Ion, B.
Author: Lindow, Kai; Müller, Patrick; Stark, Rainer
Series: ICED
Section: Design Education
Page(s): 205-215
Abstract
Product creation is facing the next level of fundamental changes. Global demands are growing substantially to achieve energy efficient and sustainable value creation networks for production, products and services without compromising traditional success factors such as time to market, cost and quality. Competition in engineering design is characterized by actors and stakeholders such as designers, engineers, OEMs, suppliers, or engineering service providers, by technical targets and economic factors within the field of application. To face such challenges, new roles in engineering design have to be implemented in organizations and development projects. Otherwise, new engineering design methods will lack deployment in industrial practice and finally fail. This paper addresses the need for selected new engineering job roles to deploy former made achievements in engineering design. The focused roles are “PSS Architect”, “Sustainability Mentor”, and “Virtual Product Creation Engineer”. Within the contribution requirements on teaching and the industrial deployment of the new job roles in a global engineering environment are presented.
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