Collaborative-interdisciplinary studio

Various ways to create interdisciplinary approaches in product design and engineering studies have been increasingly adopted in higher education. This paper describes how an engineering and industrial design program attempted to develop a new collaborative pedagogy, instead of single-discipline approaches, using a real industry-based project as the vehicle. The co-alignment of teaching and learning processes illustrates the common goals which are rationally beneficial to both programs. In conclusion, the interdisciplinary-learning framework is recapitulated to suggest more opportunities for collaboration between both academy and industry.