Colm M O’Kane and Robert Tully
Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Biography
Colm O’Kane is a senior lecturer at Dublin Institute of Technology, chair of Product Design at DIT and a former College Teaching Fellow. His research interests span the creative and engineering design ï¬ elds and he has been principal investigator on several Enterprise Ireland-funded commercialization projects. Colm has also consulted on a number of major design engineering projects in a variety of sectors including energy systems, new product development and design for manufacture.
Robert Tully is a senior lecturer at Dublin Institute of Technology. He lectures on programmes in the areas of design and creativity across three colleges of the Institute. His current academic research focus is on innovation in teaching methods and on cross and multi-disciplinary collaboration for learning enhancement. Robert has directed and participated in a number of EU development projects in innovation and creativity with both industry and educational partners. Robert is also a practicing designer working with manufacturing companies in Ireland, UK and Italy.
Abstract
Abstract : Producing designers - development of DIT’s cross-disciplinary product design programme