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- Berglund, Fredrik, 1974, et al.
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Multidisciplinary Project-based Product Development Learning in Collaboration with Industry
- 2007
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Ingår i: The 3rd International CDIO Conference, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 11-14.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Developing products is a multi-disciplinary process of identifying and envisaging user needs and realizing a product offer that meets these needs. This has to be done in a cost-efficient manner, while ensuring that the developed products exceed customer expectations concerning functionality and quality, and that they stand out from competition. Running project-based education in collaboration with industry allows students to gain experiences in addressing “real” problems and skills in applying industrial working practices in an industrial context. Consequently, product development organizations deliver not just the technical design of the product but a complete product offer. This involves activities such as market analysis, product planning, industrial design and development of after-market services.Some ten years ago, Chalmers University of Technology changed its Product Development project course, which addresses these needs, in order to increase the industrial collaboration and to facilitate a more multidisciplinary project composition. The course is now open for 4th year students from many disciplines including Mechanical Engineering, Automation Engineering, Industrial Management and Industrial Design. Thus, the student teams are multidisciplinary, which enables them to take on a multi-faceted, industry-sponsored product development task. The task requires that all the phases in a product development process are carried out. The students get the opportunity to appreciate that skills possessed by other disciplines are necessary to solve a complex problem, as well as the challenges involved including differences with respect to goals, culture, and disciplinary terminology.
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- Dodig-Crnkovic, Gordana, 1955-
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Investigations into Information Semantics and Ethics of Computing
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The recent development of the research field of Computing and Philosophy has triggered investigations into the theoretical foundations of computing and information.This thesis consists of two parts which are the result of studies in two areas of Philosophy of Computing (PC) and Philosophy of Information (PI) regarding the production of meaning (semantics) and the value system with applications (ethics).The first part develops a unified dual-aspect theory of information and computation, in which information is characterized as structure, and computation is the information dynamics. This enables naturalization of epistemology, based on interactive information representation and communication. In the study of systems modeling, meaning, truth and agency are discussed within the framework of the PI/PC unification.The second part of the thesis addresses the necessity of ethical judgment in rational agency illustrated by the problem of information privacy and surveillance in the networked society. The value grounds and socio-technological solutions for securing trustworthiness of computing are analyzed. Privacy issues clearly show the need for computing professionals to contribute to understanding of the technological mechanisms of Information and Communication Technology.The main original contribution of this thesis is the unified dual-aspect theory of computation/information. Semantics of information is seen as a part of the data-information-knowledge structuring, in which complex structures are self-organized by the computational processing of information. Within the unified model, complexity is a result of computational processes on informational structures. The thesis argues for the necessity of computing beyond the Turing-Church limit, motivated by natural computation, and wider by pancomputationalism and paninformationalism, seen as two complementary views of the same physical reality. Moreover, it follows that pancomputationalism does not depend on the assumption that the physical world on some basic level is digital. Contrary to many believes it is entirely compatible with dual (analogue/digital) quantum-mechanical computing.
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- Fazl Mashhadi, Azadeh, 1980, et al.
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The Volvo Robust Engineering System: how to make robust design work in an industrial context
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Ingår i: Total Quality Management and Business Excellence. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1478-3371 .- 1478-3363. ; 27:5-6, s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Volvo Robust Engineering System (VRES) is an adaptation of the robust design concept in an industrial context. It consists of five different principles as a basic value system, and eight practices that contribute to the implementation of system, parameter and tolerance design. VRES was developed through a learning alliancebetween Volvo and Chalmers University of Technology. This paper presents VRES and discusses it in relation to the literature-based robust design methodology, which has been a major inspiration for VRES development. VRES has expanded and validated the concepts previously developed in the literature by adding the elements needed for practical application.
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- Frenning, Lars, et al.
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A National Graduate Research School in Product Realization
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the ConnectED 2007 International Conference on Design Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 9-12 July 2007..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The education of Ph.D. students in Sweden has changed during the last decade. Earlier a studentused to take most of his/her courses - which make up about one fourth of the total work in a Ph.D.programme - at the home university and participate in research projects that were based there andmainly involved local researchers. Today’s students are much more active at the national level inboth respects. With support from research foundations, universities have begun to offer joint coursesfor all doctoral students within a specific subject area nationwide, and cooperate in research projectsthat often involve partners not only from several universities but also from industry. There areseveral advantages with this approach to Ph.D. student education. Not only are national resourcesmore efficiently used when courses are offered by the leading researchers and research groups to allstudents in a particular field, the students also get tremendous opportunities to develop personalrelations with each other across institutional borders, something which simplifies and is expected tosubstantially stimulate cooperation between them also after they have graduated and taken uppositions in academia or industry. This paper describes the organisation of and activities in a nationalgraduate research school in product realization which has been in operation since 2003. TheProViking National Graduate Research School offers courses on subjects ranging from customerneeds to ways of manufacturing competitive products. The school is in turn part of the ProVikingprogramme, which is financed by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. The students in theschool also participate in research projects organised by the ProViking programme and withmembers from both academia and industry. One of the authors is the Managing Director of theprogramme and the other is the Director of Studies of the research school.
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- Goodhew, Peter, et al.
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Concept Questions in Engineering: The Next Step
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Ingår i: 8th International CDIO Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1-4 July 2012.. - 9781921897344
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- At last year’s conference in Copenhagen one of us reviewed existing banks of concept questions and initiated the collection of further questions from participants. In this paper/workshop we will report on progress with the collection and the deployment of this resource and take advice on its further development.
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- Gustafsson, Göran, 1955, et al.
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A National Academic-Industrial Research Program with an Integrated Graduate Research School
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Ingår i: Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering: 4th International Conference on Research into Design, ICoRD'13. Global Product Development, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 7-9 January 2013. - India : Springer India. - 2195-4356. - 9788132210504 ; , s. 1117-1127
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- ProViking is a successful Swedish twelve-year research program in product development and production. Rather than to stimulate the emergence of new companies, it aims at strengthening the existing Swedish industry by producing scientific results at the highest international level and Ph.D.’s for work in the industry. ProViking comprises a large number of research projects, jointly run by universities and industrial companies, and a national graduate school which provides courses for the Ph.D. students that work in the projects. The total ProViking budget is close to 110 M€, of which 43 M€ is supplied by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and the rest by the industrial project partners. Since the program started in 2002, forty-one different research projects have so far resulted in several hundred conferences and journal papers. Some fifteen patents have either been granted or have applications pending as a result of the research, and almost one hundred Ph.D.’s have graduated.
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