Progressive Project-Based Learning for the Sustainable Development of Product Design Competences

Product design is a compound knowledge creation that integrates knowledge from multiple disciplines and is a process of mutual transformation between tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge. In order to solve the connection between static explicit knowledge and dynamic tacit knowledge in product design, as well as the progressive dynamic creation of knowledge, progressive projects are introduced into the course of product design, and students' learning experience are tracked since their sophomore year. Based on the SECI model, this paper explores the embedding of the introduction of competition projects and enterprise projects into class, as well as internship in enterprises and graduation project, into the socialized, externalized, combined and internalized external spiral, so as to form the internal and external double spiral model of product design knowledge creation, which not only improves the connection and transition between professional core courses, but also facilitates the formation of students' critical, creative and systematic thinking, the continuity of knowledge creation and the sustainable development of their learning ability.