对于希望从事制造业职业的学生，本科课程中包含了许多不同但必要的元素。不同的方法被用来整合这些元素，一种方法是使用案例工作。理想情况下，这些案例应该基于真实生产环境中遇到的问题。本文记录了学术界和工业界在一个项目上进行合作时发生的事件，该项目试图使用并行工程方法来设计产品。

Many disparate but necessary elements are included in the curriculum of undergraduate courses for students who wish to pursue a career in manufacturing. Different methods are used to integrate these elements, one method is to use casework. Ideally these caseworks should be based on problems encountered in authentic manufacturing situations. This paper chronicles the events which occurred when academia and industry collaborated on a project which endeavored to use a concurrent engineering approach to the design of a product.