Product Development Seminars - Key Factors for Successful Product Development in Student Teams

This paper focuses on how to successfully run a cooperative student seminar on product development. The setup of a recent seminar is described in detail, showing important constraints and conditions. Two teams were monitored closely and examined in detail as to their different ways to proceed and how this contributes to the overall results. For means of evaluation, success factors for each step of the design process were determined with regard to the overall motivation. From this, recommendations for the supervision of following product development seminars are deduced.     «

This paper focuses on how to successfully run a cooperative student seminar on product development. The setup of a recent seminar is described in detail, showing important constraints and conditions. Two teams were monitored closely and examined in detail as to their different ways to proceed and how this contributes to the overall results. For means of evaluation, success factors for each step of the design process were determined with regard to the overall motivation. From this, recommendation...     »