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.
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ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
August 4–7, 2013
Portland, Oregon, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division
- Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-5584-3
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Incorporating Social Product Development in Distributed Collaborative Design Education
Dazhong Wu,
Dazhong Wu
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
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Merlin Morlock,
Merlin Morlock
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
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Prateek Pande,
Prateek Pande
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
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David W. Rosen,
David W. Rosen
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
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Dirk Schaefer
Dirk Schaefer
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
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Dazhong Wu
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Merlin Morlock
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Prateek Pande
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
David W. Rosen
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Dirk Schaefer
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Paper No:
DETC2013-13093, V001T04A029; 9 pages
Published Online:
February 12, 2014
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Wu, D, Morlock, M, Pande, P, Rosen, DW, & Schaefer, D. "Incorporating Social Product Development in Distributed Collaborative Design Education." Proceedings of the ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 1: 15th International Conference on Advanced Vehicle Technologies; 10th International Conference on Design Education; 7th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems. Portland, Oregon, USA. August 4–7, 2013. V001T04A029. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2013-13093
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