E-Learning Content Creation for Interdisciplinary Master of Science Program in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

This contribution introduces an educational Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) curriculum suitable for undergraduate and young professionals, which enables a graduation as Master of Science. The main goal is to increase the accessibility of valuable PLM content for educational purposes and to introduce students to the productive “hands on” features of PLM by developing an international, interdisciplinary and online-based program. This program focusses on a fundamental PLM understanding, the usability of available software systems and an industrial PLM integration and application. A highly professional cooperation between five technical universities from Turkey, Spain, Germany and Austria, international experts designed interactive online classes, which are suitable for distance learning. Sharing technology for international educational platform enables students, professors and partners from industry to share their PLM expertise with students and improve the common and different understandings. This new PLM program shows the usability of the applications, which were implemented and tested in a pilot training course. The results are very promising and further suggestions and feedback for improvement will be taken into account. Student feedback and the exceptional motivation of the whole project team shows that interdisciplinary online education has a promising future in international academic PLM education integrating practical use cases.