Complejidad, Sostenibilidad y Tecnología: Un enfoque integrador para el desarrollo de proyectos académicos en ingeniería de diseño.

Published in: Engineering for a Smarter Planet: Innovation, ITC, and Computational Tools for Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
Date of Conference: August 3-5, 2011
Location of Conference: Medellin, Colombia
Authors: Ricardo Mejía-Gutiérrez
Gilberto Osorio-Gómez
Refereed Paper: #122

Abstract

The materialization of design projects has demonstrated to be a key factor for the evaluation of new ideas. In this field, the Department of Product Design Engineering from EAFIT University has been pioneer in Colombia. In order to take this process to a new level, an integrated approach has been proposed oriented to the design and development of sustainable transport value added products, particularly in the field of electric mobility, where transport systems complexity is combined with the need of developing sustainable products, together with the use of technologies in the area of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). It is presented the adopted methodology for development of this kind of projects at academic level, detailing main activities and tools, and describing a successful case study for the design of a functional prototype of an electric bicycle, in order to demonstrate the findings and experiences obtained in this kind of implementations that, in the future, will be translated into trained engineers on advanced product development, as well as to raise industrial awareness in the subject.