Background Engineering student team projects are frequently used to meet professional
learning outcomes. Industrial and organizational psychologists study teams in the industry …

We explore the potential drivers for and barriers to interdisciplinary education in design from
the student learning perspective. To achieve this, a series of in-depth student interview …

Background Human‐centered design approaches promote and facilitate comprehensive
understanding of stakeholders to inform design decisions. Successful engagement with …

Interdisciplinarity is becoming a critical issue of concern for design schools across East Asia
in their attempts to provide industry graduates with the skills and competences to make …

Students in scientific/technical-oriented disciplines struggle with achieving good levels of
innovation when exposed to design problems. Research indicates the need for …

Engineering practice is inherently interdisciplinary. Current curricular structures, however,
provide engineering students with few opportunities to work across disciplinary boundaries …

There is a need for innovative approaches in the classroom to increase student
preparedness to address and solve some of today's complex social problems …

This study examines engineering faculty and students' views of collaboration beyond their
own field, based on 12 engineering faculty interviews and a survey with 101 mechanical …

When I was an undergraduate aerospace engineering student at MIT, I would never have
predicted that one day I would be presenting doctoral work in aerospace engineering design …

Human needs and goals are integral to engineering, but human-centered engineering
requires understanding principles and methods from the social sciences. Instruction is …