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Table 4. The skills set definition of integrated design engineers in the iDesigner project (together with
partners' involvement in their development)

Partner's
responsibility Skill units Skill elements

Process competence • Product lifecycle process, value chain GNP

• Design Process Innovation PUT

• Change Management Process ISCN

Systems engineering • Understanding and Design of Complex Product GNP

• Requirement Engineering ISCN

• Validation and Improvement of Design Models PUT

• Capitalization on Design Knowledge over different products and domains GNP

Knowledge manage-
ment and sharing

• Formalization of design knowledge GNP

• Sharing of design knowledge GNP

Collaborative distrib-
uted design

• Working in distributed engineering teams UPT

• Communication with experts from different fields UPT

• Design process moderation UPT

Responsible (aware)
design (case studies)

• Sustainable design GNP

• Safety conscious design ISCN

• Security conscious design ISCN

• Health conscious design All partners

• Testability conscious design All partners

• Maintainability conscious design PUT

• Product/service co-design GNP

former EU projects and the only Network of Ex-
cellence in Manufacturing and Innovation (VRL-
KCiP that have been transform in the EMIRAcle
association) but also, some past national projects
developed by the partners.
The new results will be transferred to the
market in form of job role based training and
certificates. The iDesigner project's partners are:
Institute Polytechnique de Grenoble (coordinator)
- France (GNP), Poznan University of Technol-
ogy - Poland (PUT), Politehnica University
of Timisoara - Romania (UPT), International
Software Consulting Network (ISCN) - Austria
and the European Manufacturing and Innovation
Research Association a cluster leading excellence
(EMIRAcle) - Belgium that is responsible with
the dissemination activities and results.

The qualification and certification of integrated
design engineers addresses itself at experienced
design engineers (as the INPRO network's
members can be considered together with mas-
ter programs or PhD. students that belong to the
partners universities) who want to complement
and/or certify their advanced design skills. The
students typically aim at a senior or principal
engineer position in their design teams, but also,
for managing positions. The certificate, however,
is not supposed to certify the student's capabili-
ties as a design team manager. One of the biggest
challenges is to conceive a training program that
covers the complete skills set in a maximum of
three weeks.
Table 4 shows a skill set which provides the
basis of our future research and development
activities. It is the result of an initial consolida-