Different Perspectives in Design Thinking

Chapter-11 Lessons Learned A Plea for Curricularizing Design Thinking in Engineering Education

Anne Wallisch^1* and Kristin Paetzold²

¹ Universität der Bundeswehr München, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39,85577 München, Germany.

² Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Maschinenelemente und Maschinenkonstruktion, Professur für Virtuelle Produktentwicklung,01062 Dresden

^* Corresponding author: [e-mail]

DOI: 10.1201/9780429289378-11

Introduction

Design thinking has its origins in an extracurricular course for mechanical engineers. These roots are taken up here and design thinking is used as a didactic element to make content of the lecture ‘Methods of Product Development’, aimed at students of mechanical and aerospace engineering, ...