THE CDIO FRAMEWORK AND NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

F. Smulders, A. Kamp, C. Fortin (2018). THE CDIO FRAMEWORK AND NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION. 13.

2018 14th International CDIO Conference, Kanazawa IT, Japan

Technological innovation happens on a daily basis all around us. Yet, in our educational programs there is rarely any attention paid to what this is and how this unfolds over time in real life. This is not at all surprising, since there is not one unified and widely accepted body of knowledge on technological innovation that is grounded enough, meaning, knowledge based on research of technological innovation practice. The CDIO-framework is implicitly addressing innovation from the perspective of existing technological knowledge and therefore is not yet equipped enough for the purpose of tech-innovation. This paper therefore aims to initiate a discussion on what technological innovation is and how this could fit within the CDIO-framework. We will provide a definition of technological innovation based on innovation theoretical framework which reaches its readiness when practice is able to apply the new technology to design, engineer, build, maintain and dispose the objects that apply that particular technology. This lens will be used to analyze a well-documented case that reports on the development of a new structural aircraft material that is now widely used in the Airbus A380, hence a technological innovation. It will be shown in this paper that the research activities that support the development of the new technology, follow the logic of innovating as a generic and natural phenomenon. The paper ends by proposing a possible path to bring the subject of technological innovation within the confines of our educational curricula, without too much cutting on the subjects that we are teaching. Its base comes from the idea that what we are teaching today is the result of a technological innovation process of yesterday.

Authors (New):

Frido Smulders

Aldert Kamp

Clément Fortin

Pages:

Affiliations:

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia

Keywords:

CDIO Framework

Engineering education

technological innovation

Product Innovation

Year:

2018

Reference:

Berends, H., Van Burg, E., and Van Raaij, E.M. (2011). Contacts and Contracts: Cross-Level Network Dynamics in the Development of an Aircraft Material. Organization Science, Vol 22(4), pp. 940-960. :

Crawley, E.F., Edström, K., and Stanko, T. (2013). Educating engineers for research-based innovation-creating the learning outcomes framework. Proceedings of the 9th International CDIO Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 9-13.:

Héder, M. (2017). From NASA to EU: the evolution of the TRL scale in Public Sector Innovation, The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, Volume 22(2), 2017, article 3.:

Marissen, R. (1988), Fatigue Crack Growth in Arall, a Hybrid Aluminium-Aramid Composite Material, PhD-thesis, Delft, Delft University of Technology. :

Potter K.D. (2009), Achieving low variability, rework and scrap rates in the production of advanced composite parts, SEICO09, SAMPE Europe 30th, 265-270.:

Roebroeks, G. (1991), Towards Glare. The development of a fatigue insensitive and damage tolerant aircraft material. PhD thesis, Delft, Delft University of Technology:

Shenhar, A.J., Holzmann, V., Melamed, B., & Zhao, Y. (2016). The Challenge of Innovation in Highly Complex Projects: What Can We Learn from Boeing’s Dreamliner Experience? Project Management Journal, 47(2), 62-78.:

Smulders, F.E. (1988), Fibre failure mechanisms in ARALL laminates, Unpublished MSc-thesis, Delft University of Technology:

Smulders, F.E. (2014). The IDER-model: Towards a vocabulary to describe innovating. Proceedings of the 15th International CINet (Continuous Innovation Network) Conference, Budapest, Bulgaria, September 2014, 815-831.:

Smulders, F.E. (2015). Heterogeneous designing & engineering: Antecedents and indicators to innovativeness. Proceedings of the 16th International CINet (Continuous Innovation Network) Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2015, 880-890.:

Smulders, F.E. (2017). Heterogeneous engineering: Essential bridge implementing creative design. International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED). University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada). :

Smulders, F. & De Bont, C. (2013). Design research: purpose, dynamics and progress. In C. de Bont, F. Smulders, R. Schifferstein, M. van der Voort & E. den Ouden (Eds.), Advanced design methods for successful innovation, Design United, 211-235.:

Smulders, F., Dorst, K., & Vermaas, P. (2014). On applying Design Thinking elsewhere: Organizational context matters. Proceedings of the Academic Design Management Conference, London, Sept 2014, 2798-2817. :

Stompff, G. (2012). Facilitating Team Cognition. How designers mirror what NPD teams do. PhD thesis, Delft, Delft University of Technology.:

Tsai, S. W. (1993). Rules of Composites Design: a Review. In Metal Matrix Composites: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM/9), Madrid, 12-16 July, 1993 (Vol. 1). Woodhead Publishing:

Van Burg, E., Van Raaij, E. and Berends, H. (2008), The fibres that hold an innovation network:1 an analysis of knowledge sharing in the Glare network. In A,P. de Man (ed.), Knowledge management and innovation in networks, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK: 145-173.:

Vermeeren, C.A.J.R. (2003), ‘An historic overview of the development of Fibre Metal Laminates’, Applied Composite Materials, 10, 189–205.:

Vlot, A. (2001), Glare. History of the development of a new aircraft material. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers. :

on January 20, 2019 - 16:59 Tyrone Machado

THE CDIO FRAMEWORK AND NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

Navigation

THE CDIO FRAMEWORK AND NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

Share this content.