Conference Aim
The E&PDE conference will bring together representatives from education and industry who have an interest in sharing new perspectives on design education. The conference will provide a forum for educators, practitioners and students from product development, engineering and industrial design, together with industry to discuss current educational issues and the nature of design education now and in the future. This year's conference theme, Design Education for creativity and Business Innovation aims to provide a platform for participants to explore how design education can impact upon and strengthen business innovation. Through this theme the conference aims to;
- Provide a networking platform for a wide variety of participants
- Explore how design education can trigger creativity to increase the business success of university and industrial partners
- Explore how creativity in professional practice can help both design educators and business leaders promote engineering and increase business success in companies
- Explore how business studies can contribute to the development of creativity and design performance
- Encourage industry feedback to educators with ideas and practical opportunities in order to create a better platform for business success
These aims will be addressed through the following conference topics;
- Design education in practice
- Design methodology in education
- Best practice in design education
- Design education and business
- Creativity in design education
- International collaboration
- Global product development
- Linking Bachelor, Master and PhD level education
- New design education paradigms
- Synergies between engineering and product design education
- Scientific methods for course evaluation
- Professional perspectives for design students
- Technology transfer through design
- Research networks of design educators
In keeping with the inclusive ethos of the E&PDE conference and to broaden the opportunities to link design and business by creativity and innovation other stream proposals are welcomed. We invite you to send your proposals for other relevant topics to ied@ied.org.uk.