Title:
Framework
for Orienting Engineering Undergraduate Final Year Projects Towards New
Product Innovation Process
Abstract: The traditional
framework for undergraduate final year project (FYP) has customarily
focused on the sharpening of theoretical principles and the honing of
fundamental practical skills. This work sees the pressing need for
orienting FYPs at the undergraduate level towards new product
innovation. Hence, an unconventional framework, incorporating new
product development (NPD) processes and practices, is created, aiming
to generate more balanced and productive graduates; and enabling them
to contribute to the NPD innovation process. For the purpose of
comparison, the traditional FYP framework is firstly introduced. Then,
each phase in the new framework, which embodies the actual activities
carried out in a customer-oriented organization, is presented in
detail. In addition to that, a project was developed and the proposed
framework was implemented. As a result, a potential was found for the
new developed framework.
Author: Ammar Al
Shalabi, S. B. Chee, Narish Singh, and B. F. Yousif