Engineering Design and Product Development: a focus of the MIT-Portugal Programme.

This paper describes the focus area of the MIT-Portugal Programme that deals with Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing (EDAM). The EDAM initiative consists of two new post tertiary degree programmes plus affiliated research and industrial liaisons. The paper also discusses the Portuguese innovation and education trajectory and the challenges felt by Portugal as the world becomes more networked (or flat). Some quantitative statistical studies of Portuguese innovation and education metrics are examined to explore the needs for new initiatives such as the MIT-Portugal Programme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]