In the coming decades, what will be the most salient aspect of everyday work for the Mechatronic design engineer? “Good engineers” know not to leave the ongoing organizing of project work to project managers, and good project managers know to ensure that all the engineers in their project can be “good engineers” in this way. Based on participatory research in everyday Mechatronic development work, this chapter explores three overarching questions that the future engineer is well advised to consider both today and in ten years. The aim is not to be yet another think-piece about the importance of collaboration, listening or how to hold value-generating workshops. The chapter will focus on you, the Mechatronic practitioner, and what questions to ask yourself. These three questions are not to be answered directly but should instead serve as containers for more concrete questions of more practical relevance. Otherwise, the chapter would simply be another general think-piece. Therefore, the chapter is organized through these three questions. The questions offered are based on research findings from practice-oriented case study fieldwork on micro-features of everyday project work in Mechatronics system development. For each question, a short example or vignette from industry will be used to exemplify what is meant.

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Project and Engineering Expertise in Mechatronics Futures

  • Elias Flening

摘要

In the coming decades, what will be the most salient aspect of everyday work for the Mechatronic design engineer? “Good engineers” know not to leave the ongoing organizing of project work to project managers, and good project managers know to ensure that all the engineers in their project can be “good engineers” in this way. Based on participatory research in everyday Mechatronic development work, this chapter explores three overarching questions that the future engineer is well advised to consider both today and in ten years. The aim is not to be yet another think-piece about the importance of collaboration, listening or how to hold value-generating workshops. The chapter will focus on you, the Mechatronic practitioner, and what questions to ask yourself. These three questions are not to be answered directly but should instead serve as containers for more concrete questions of more practical relevance. Otherwise, the chapter would simply be another general think-piece. Therefore, the chapter is organized through these three questions. The questions offered are based on research findings from practice-oriented case study fieldwork on micro-features of everyday project work in Mechatronics system development. For each question, a short example or vignette from industry will be used to exemplify what is meant.