BME/Industrial Design Collaboration in BME Design

Jay R. Goldberg, PhD, PE

2013 BME-IDEA – Seattle, WA

Program Elements• Undergraduates (seniors)– BME, ME, EE, CompE, CompSc– Industrial design (juniors)

• Shared projects

• Common and discipline-specific lectures

2013 BME-IDEA – Seattle, WA

Novel Feature• Collaboration with the Milwaukee

Institute of Art and Design (MIAD)– Fall: Module on Industrial Design– Spring: Collaboration between MU

engineering and MIAD industrial design students (BME projects)

• Virtual teams – Smith College

2013 BME-IDEA – Seattle, WA

Best Practices• ID Module

– Aesthetics of Design, Industrial Design– Communicating Your Ideas– Converting Specs into Concepts– Mock-ups and Prototypes

• Shared project resources– MIAD: machine shop (foam, clay, wood, vacuum

forming, etc.)– MU: machine shop, 3D printer

• Ex: Nourish Project

2013 BME-IDEA – Seattle, WA

Outcomes• Aestheticaly pleasing, functional prototypes

• Mutual respect for each other’s disciplines– Engineers: functionality, validation/verification,

documentation, analysis/presentation of data– ID: communicate through sketching, focus on user experience– Both: customer needs, usability, manufacturing, prototypes

• Different ways to view/solve problems

• Cross-functional language; prepared to work with each other on multidisciplinary teams