디자인-공학 국제 협업설계 교육의 사례 연구

This paper is about a case study of an interdisciplinary and intercultural collaborative design project course that has beenoffered for six years. The distinct characteristics of this course lie in that its students consist of those in two different disciplines,mechanical engineering and industrial design, and also in two different countries, Korea and Germany. The themes of the designproject have been selected differently over the years, but always were related to transportation and, particularly, personal mobilitydevices. The paper first delineates the course and illustrates examples of the outcomes. Then, unique aspects and challenges ofthe course that have been observed through the six runs and that are associated with the intercultural and interdisciplinary natureare indicated and discussed. The author is convinced that this course has been successful in helping prepare the students forglobally-operating manufacturing companies in the future. It is hoped that the findings from this course and the discussionscontained in this paper would help those who plan to offer similar courses.