In order to meet industrial demands, some colleges and universities have offered interdisciplinary programs that integrate design, engineering, and business. However, how many changes these programs have brought to students, and whether students participating in these programs have had better interdisciplinary ability than students involved in a single discipline study have always been questions that many researchers want to explore. In a university that offers an interdisciplinary program, we found that there is no significant difference in interdisciplinary integration ability between the students participating in the interdisciplinary program and the students involved in a single discipline study through quantitative comparisons of 91 student questionnaires and analyses of interviews with nine teachers of interdisciplinary courses and other related staff members. This may result from the students’ lack of motivation, lack of prior experience, the influence of individual traits, the increase of learning pressure and academic burden, and the interference of disciplinary factors during interdisciplinary learning. The research finding is intended to improve student interdisciplinary learning effectiveness by facilitating interdisciplinary teachers’ understanding of the influencing factors of student interdisciplinary learning, and by providing a reference for interdisciplinary teaching design.

Which curriculum designs are more effective in improving students’ interdisciplinary integration competencies? This question remains a focal point in interdisciplinary education research. However, empirical studies on this topic are relatively scarce. Through empirical analysis, this study compared the interdisciplinary integration competencies of students participating in interdisciplinary curricula at two universities in East Asia using the One-way ANOVA method. Through comparisons of student competence differences with corresponding course programs, the study identifies five variables that may impact students’ interdisciplinary abilities: the number of foundational courses of other disciplines, the number of interdisciplinary integration practice courses, participation in off-campus internships in interdisciplinary education programs, frequency of forming student teams from different disciplines in courses, and the implementation of team teaching by instructors from different disciplines. Multivariate regression analysis revealed that changes in the number of interdisciplinary integration practice courses and participation in interdisciplinary off-campus internships at the beginning of the curriculum had a significantly positive influence on students’ interdisciplinary abilities, with the latter having a greater impact than the former. The study concludes that this phenomenon exists in two universities with completely different social systems, indicating a high degree of objectivity in these findings. These findings provide valuable insights for research on interdisciplinary curriculum design and talent training patterns.

The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of different LED colors on leather color shift to prevent misleading purchases. Six light sources consisting of three color temperatures (2700 K, 4000 K, and 6000 K) and two illuminances (750 lux and 1500 lux) were used. Red and brown leathers, common in the luxury goods market, with or without grain, were studied. The colors and patterns resulted in four leather surfaces for a color shift cognition experiment. The results indicated that: (1) Color temperature, illuminance, and leather color significantly affected color shift perception. (2) Two-factor combinations of color temperature and grain as well as color temperature and leather color generated interaction toward color shift. (3) The three-factor combination of color temperature, grain, and leather color also generated interaction toward color shift. The criticalness of factors affecting leather color shift was such that leather color > color temperature > illuminance > grain. The results can serve as references for the luxury goods and fashion industry in the management of retail display illumination and for color control of leather products under different illumination environments, thereby promoting the sustainability of leather product consumption.

The current study investigates the relationship between performance-based organisational culture (i.e., innovation-oriented culture, outcome-oriented culture, and detail-oriented culture) and three...