Design for manufacturing in the engineering education 5.0 era: an agile framework for project-based vehicle prototyping
Erick Ramírez-Cedillo
In this article, a Design for Manufacturing (DfM)-centered capstone framework is presented for organizing the full Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) cycle of a competition vehicle within a single academic semester. While competition-based capstone studies have reported benefits in experiential learning and subsystem development, they rarely explain how manufacturability constraints, configuration control, cost tracking, and sprint-gated reviews are operationally integrated within a 15-wee