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 is Design Education for Future Wellbeing and aims to;
- Provide a networking platform for a wide variety of participants.
- Explore how design education can set the scene for future wellbeing of people within society, economy, industry and the global village the world has become.
- Discuss how engineering and product design education can lead to innovative products for an innovative world.
- Explore how the focus on future wellbeing can contribute to the development of creativity and success.
- Encourage innovators to provide feedback to educators with ideas and practical opportunities in order to facilitate an innovation platform future (ad)ventures.
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 industry
- Creativity in design education
- New design education paradigms
- International collaboration
- Global product development
- Linking Bachelor, Master and PhD level education
- Scientific methods for course evaluation
- Professional perspectives for design students
- Research networks of design educators
- Idea to market in design education
- Technology transfer through design
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.