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Fostering Interdisciplinary Integration in Engineering Management

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Research in the challenging field of industrial engineering and engineering management often needs the expertise from more than one discipline. Various disciplinary competences have to be combined to answer research questions and to solve specific (engineering) problems at the interfaces of different professional disciplines. The disciplines being part of the research and problem solving process have to be consequently integrated to form an efficiently performing interdisciplinary consortium. Current research states that this interdisciplinary integration process has to include various dimensions. This paper introduces three sets of interdisciplinary integration tools. Together they cover all of the dimensions explained before and lead to an enhanced interdisciplinary integration. Having just rolled out a set of integration tools, measurement tools are adjusted to evaluate and optimize them continually.

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    The excellence initiative was started in 2005 by the government and federal states. It is divided into three funding lines: graduate schools, clusters of excellence and future concepts for top-level research. In 2012 its second funding period started.

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Acknowledgments

This research has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Clusters of Excellences ‘Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries’ and ‘Tailor-Made Fuels from Biomass’ at RWTH Aachen University. Additionally, the work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under Grant 01HH11088 and was co-financed by the European Social Funds (ESF).

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    Tobias Vaegs, Inna Zimmer, Stefan Schröder, Ingo Leisten, René Vossen & Sabina Jeschke

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Vaegs, T., Zimmer, I., Schröder, S., Leisten, I., Vossen, R., Jeschke, S. (2016). Fostering Interdisciplinary Integration in Engineering Management. In: Jeschke, S., Isenhardt, I., Hees, F., Henning, K. (eds) Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2015/2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42620-4_48

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