Conflict management in an interdisciplinary design environment

Engineering design is, of necessity, a complex process that requires the design engineer to exercise initiative and inventiveness as well as deploying a wide range of skills and expertise in attaining a solution. In an interdisciplinary design environment, such as one involving a mechatronics approach to design, the designer is often required to function in a generalist mode with an eye towards employing a wider range of technologies. Where this is not possible, a product design team is often assembled to facilitate and encourage the interaction between different disciplines. The increasing occurrence of interdisciplinary product development has not only removed many of the traditional constraints to design but has now given the designer or design team a much wider freedom of choice as to the best solution to a particular design problem.

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