The Department of Industrial Engineering within theFaculty of Engineering, at the University of Malta, in collaboration with the Malta Branch of the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) UK, will be holding a public lecture on "German Guidelines for the Product Design Process – one Way to the Success?".
It is said, that Germany has a lot of good engineers and products. Nevertheless, German companies are successful in the world wide competition, perhaps, based on these engineers. The VDI - The Association of German Engineers, which unifies approximately 125,000 German engineers, tries to assist them to become more competitive. Therefore they are publishing guidelines for different topics of the points of interest of engineers. Some of these guidelines are dealing with the product design process and should help the users in different field of engineering to improve the design processes, to make them more successful and to help creating more competitive products. The speech will introduce some guidelines and examples of concrete applications to show, that there are not only scientific points of interest, but also helpful in the real life of engineers.
Prof. Dr Ing. Peter Leibl is a professor at the Faculty for Applied Sciences and Mechatronics, at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany. His research interests are Product Design, Design to Cost, Machine Elements and Innovation management. Prof. Leibl has industrial experience in various areas of design and is responsible for a number of research projects. Peter has various publications in the design field in various international journals and conference proceedings. Prof. Leibl is the inventor of five patents.
The event will take place on Tuesday 22 November at 17:30hrs in the CAD/CAM Systems Lab at the University of Malta.
If you are interested, please send an e-mail to Mrs Sharlene Cachia at sharlene.cachia@um.edu.mt by not later than Monday 21 November, to book a place. Due to limited places, booking is taken on a first-come first-served basis.