Product Design Engineering: Teaching at the Intersection of Industrial Design and Mechanical
Event Date: | August 31, 2017 |
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Hosted By: | School of Engineering Education |
Time: | 3:30 - 4:20 PM |
Location: | ARMS B071 |
Open To: | All Welcome |
Priority: | No |
School or Program: | Engineering Education |
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In this seminar, Charlie Ranscombe, Assistant Professor in Product Design Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia) will discuss:
- The degree itself and how the two disciplines are blended.
- The different educational approaches adopted to account for the mixing of traditional disciplines.
- Projects and outcomes in industry collaborations and humanitarian engineering.
- How initiatives in the classroom have articulated to research projects.
Biography
Charlie’s original training and qualification is in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bath UK. Over the last 10 years He has transitioned into Industrial Design as a practicing designer and subsequently his PhD also obtained at the University of Bath. Charlie has been lecturing at Swinburne in the department of Architectural and Industrial design since 2013 where he now holds the position of coordinator for the Product Design Engineering degree. His research interests lie broadly in studying the influence of new design technology on the processes and activities of designers.