Advanced team work education within the concurrent engineering paradigm

Development of a large perspective for the e-global economy requires a new approach for learning and training processes. Corporate and governmental organizations are significantly shifting their strategies from hierarchical work structures, creating departmental layers, toward team-based flat organizations. These human centered holons may cut across responsibilities. Large transnational companies try to learn behavior as "local" citizens everywhere, whilst local SMEs try to learn how to operate "in the global market". Local and regional economics are a source of innovative activity but competitiveness has to be global. Accordingly, with this trend of an e-activities based society, it is necessary to develop a new concept based on the concurrent engineering methodology involving team building and operation. The paper aims to launch a discussion about change management for a well balanced curriculum between traditional "face to face" classes and e-learning facilities. A case study for education in the field of electronic packaging is also presented.