Browsing by Author "Riel, A."

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    Dynamic Learning Organisations Supporting Knowledge Creation for Competitive and Integrated Product Design
    (Cranfield University Press, 2009-03-31) Messnarz, R.; Spork, G.; Riel, A.; Tichkiewitch, S.; Rajkumar Roy; Essam Shehab
    This paper shows that learning strategies and a structured approach to turn organisations into learning organisms have a major influence on the success of engineering programs in general, and on integrated design activities in particular. It points out the important relationship between dynamic learning organisations and the successful integrated development of complex mechatronic products using the topical and typical example of safety engineering in automotive development. It points out the key properties of learning organisations and reports about a way in which they have been successfully applied to the showcase example in close collaboration with a car manufacturing company.
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    European-wide Formation and Certification for the Competitive Edge in Integrated Design
    (Cranfield University Press, 2009-03-31) Riel, A.; Tichkiewitch, S.; Messnarz, R.; Rajkumar Roy; Essam Shehab
    Competitive Product Design is more and more linked to mastering the challenge of the complexity and multidisciplinary nature of modern products in an integrated fashion from the very earliest phases of product development. Design Engineers are increasingly confronted with the need to master several different engineering disciplines in order to get a sufficient understanding of a product or service. Industrialists demand for the certification of these skills, as well as for their international recognition and exchangeability. This paper describes the approach that EMIRAcle takes together with the ECQA in order to define and establish job roles, curricula and certifications in the domain of Integrated Engineering on a European level.