%0 Journal Article %T Teaching integrated system design with interdisciplinary group design exercises %A Peter Grant %A Ewen Macpherson %A Gareth Harrison %A Kevin Brunson %J Engineering Education %D 2010 %I %X With funding from the UKĄ¯s Royal Academy of Engineering, the University of Edinburgh has developed a set of three truly interdisciplinary group design exercises aimed at improving penultimateyear undergraduate studentsĄ¯ ability to work across disciplines and improve their preparation for transfer into industry. Three exercises on hydropower system design, potable water supply and a microsystem accelerometer are each designed and led by a Visiting Industrial Professor. The group design exercises are both challenging and popular with students and have achieved several very successful outcomes: experience of real system design; enhanced appreciation of other engineering disciplines; experience of team working where participants have different skills and expertise; demonstration of the links between design and economic viability and introduction to non-technical areas essential to fulfilling the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence. %K interdisciplinary group work %K visiting professor scheme %K industry %K UK-SPEC %U http://www.engsc.ac.uk/journal/index.php/ee/article/view/126/205