A design challenge has been developed as the first experience in a new Master's degree program in product development, offered by a consortium of schools: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the University of Detroit Mercy. The program admits experienced technical specialists who have been identified by their employers as future leaders of product development. The program begins with a brief, intense design challenge that exposes the students to a multi‐disciplinary problem and initiates reflection on systems architecture and organizational processes. The unique requirements of hands‐on design challenges for graduate education in product development are discussed from a constructionist viewpoint. Implementation details of the design challenge are presented and the results from the first two years are analyzed. Students in the program rate the design challenge as a very good introduction to the program and agree that the exercise provides material for discussion of system architecture and organizational processes.
and a Visiting Lecturer at NTID. He is a deaf engineer at IBM who received his BS from RIT and his MS from Lehigh University. He currently serves as a loaned executive at NTID/RIT working in the Center on Access Technology and the department of Engineering Studies. At IBM, he is a delivery project manager in the Rapid Application Development Engineering System. Behm has six patents and has presented over 20 scientific and technical papers at various professional conferences.
is an assistant professor in the Automation Technologies program at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). Scott served as the Director of Manufacturing Technologies at RIT's Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies (CIMS) before joining NTID. He has more than twenty years of experience in developing manufacturing systems with a specialty in factory automation. He served as Applications Engineer, Proposals Engineer, Project Manager and Application Engineering Manager at Hansford Assembly & Test Systems (NY); Director of Applications Engineering at Wes-tech Automation Systems (IL); and Vice-president of Engineering at Cox Automation (IL). He started in the automation industry as a machinist, machine builder, robot programmer and controls engineer. He has trained engineers and technicians in machine design and controls implementation and has taught PLC and CNC programming. Specializations include assembly equipment conceptualization, flexible automation, DFM/DFA, and testing/monitoring systems. Scott has received an MS in Manufacturing Management and Leadership from RIT in 1997 and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 1984. Scott built his first electric bicycle in 1977 and has been actively developing improved electric vehicles ever since. He founded the RIT Ebike club in 2006 and has been the advisor since inception. Scott led the club to the 2006 Tour de Sol ebike competition in Saratoga Springs, NY. The team placed first and second in the student category with both entered bikes finishing 1, 2 in the three hour marathon race.
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