Course Summary:

This course features eight weeks of Instructor Led Online Self-Study and two days In-Class Living Training. Students will access: Lecture notes, Assignments, Readings, Session Forum, Course Forum, and Course Library.

Course Objective:

The objective of this course is to enhance the theoretical competences and practical skills of collaborative engineering for engineers and managers working in the global industrial enterprises. The education goals are to teach students the basic understandings of the fundamental principles of collaborative engineering and the practical applications of these principles to enhance their engineering collaboration practices. Students will learn integrated knowledge from multiple disciplines, including social, cognitive, management, system, decision, and information sciences that are relevant to human collaboration, and engage in relevant case studies which demonstrate how this interdisciplinary knowledge can be applied to support real-world engineering collaboration in global industries. The course will also be of interests to other professionals who directly or indirectly participate in and lead large-scale international projects that need engineering collaboration.