Industrial Seminar

Question: Describe about the Essay for Industrial Seminar? Answer: The Problem (Executive Summary) University of Liverpool, UK have organised a seminar named Being a Design Engineer ...A Retrospective Perspective on February 11th, 2016. The seminar was conducted by reputed Professor Ian Phillips, who is currently working as the Principal Staff Engineer at ARM Ltd. Ian Phillips has been a Design Engineer all his life. The central idea of the seminar was to share the experience of Prof. Ian Phillips as a Design Engineer since the beginning of his career. In the year 1974, at the early age of 25, Prof. Phillips ranked first in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Phillips and profile, 2016). At that time, the electronics were mostly used in the professional field, while the consumer sphere has only introduced radios and TVs. Furthermore, in the earlier days there used to be only one computer per company that is furthermore shared by using Teletype terminals (Chao and Huntington 2013). Even the telephones and cars used in the earlier days were completely electro-mechanical. The most vital question raised by Professor Phillips whether the education system prepared him for the next forty years of his professional life as a Design Engineer. Moreover, he also emphasizes the fact how well the education and academic courses are preparing the Electrical, Electronics and Computer Science students for next forty years of their lives. Professor Phillips exclaimed that engineering means creating and developing new stuff while technology is the tool used for making that stuff. Professor also stated that the functional, economical, innovative and reliable value of the produced stuff makes the engineering product more viable. There was various computing mechanism in the earlier days like the Hipparchoss Antitikythera, Grahams Orrery, Babbages Difference Engine that were considered one of the biggest computing achievement at that time (Conradie et al. 2015). In the earlier days, the implementations of computing and electronics devices were limited by the available technologies. Professor also stated the fact that as Design Engineer, one must utilize the available technologies to fulfil the need and reliability of the product. Regarding business perspective, a Design Engineer needs to create the things that are innovative, technologically advanced as are profitable to the company. Furthermore, as a designer, one must be good at creating product differentiation that will allow the business to lead the market competition. During the 1970s, the business opportunities laid in the mainframe computers (Chesbrough 2013). But with the rapid change in technology and creation of new products the trends of business op portunity have changed from professional to consumer. In the contemporary world, there is a various aspect of the technology that is vital but not visible while others are visible but not important. The consumer of the products does not know about the embedded technology the product has. As a Design Engineer, the most critical challenges that one will face is to develop and create new products with innovative technologies while not being appraised by the customer. In today's world, one cannot start his work with a clean sheet of paper. One always has to work on the previous researches. Thus, working as a Design Engineer means there is no limit of learning and experiencing. There will always be new technology new things to work upon. References Conradie, P.D., Nafzger, R., Vanneste, C., De Marez, L. and Saldien, J., 2015. Methods for Ideation: Reviewing Early Phase Concept Generation Among Industrial Design Engineer Students. InDS82: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (EPDE15), Great Expectations: Design Teaching, Research Enterprise. Phillips, I. and profile, V. 2016.Prof Ian Phillips. [online] Ianp24.blogspot.in. Available at: https://ianp24.blogspot.in/ [Accessed 24 Feb. 2016]. Chao, H.P. and Huntington, H.G. eds., 2013.Designing competitive electricity markets(Vol. 13). Springer Science Business Media. Chesbrough, H., 2013.Open business models: How to thrive in the new innovation landscape. Harvard Business Press.