The minor Integrated Product Development enables the student to acquire a far-reaching multidisciplinary ‘helicopter’ view of the product development cycle.
Integrated product development is characterised by a work sphere in which professionals from all disciplines are involved in the development of innovative products. Technicians, business specialists, logisticians, economists and IT specialists closely work together to overcome the tough competition and to secure continuity.
The advent and development of micro-electronics, the ICT sector and huge improvements in the fields of logistics and communication imply that business is increasingly a multidisciplinary affair. Today, the various aspects can no longer be considered separately. Above all the developments in ICT are moving forward quickly: global business and global collaborative engineering are current realities mainly because of the advancements of ICT in the past decade.
As a result, there is an ever greater demand for personnel with a multidisciplinary, ‘helicopter’ view of the product development cycle.