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EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN SYNTHESIS COMPARISON: GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT VS. FIXED-MESH CELLS
Yogev, Or; Shapiro, Andrew A.; Antonsson, Erik K. // 2011
Two design synthesis techniques, both utilizing evolutionary computation, are compared. One employs growth and development of a model composed of finite element cells; the other employs a pre-defined ...
EXPANDING THE SOCIAL DIMENSION: TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE BASE FOR PRODUCT-SERVICE INNOVATION
Ericson, Åsa; Larsson, Andreas; Larsson, Tobias // 2011
The extension of businesses to incorporate the provision of function as a service in supplement to standalone products is an ongoing movement in manufacturing industry. In short, this means that the ...
EXPERIENCES WITH IDEA PROMOTING INITIATIVES - WHY THEY DON'T ALWAYS WORK
Gish, Liv // 2011
In new product development a central activity is to provide new ideas. Over the last decades experiences with stimulating employee creativity and establishing idea promoting initiatives have been ...
EXPLOIT AND EXPLORE: TWO WAYS OF CATEGORIZING INNOVATION PROJECTS
Ericson, Åsa; Kastensson, Åsa // 2011
Innovation is vital to companies, but also difficult to perform since there are many ways to approach the subject. Typically, a balance between all issues related to innovation is suggested in ...
EXPLOITING HAND SKETCHING IN EDUCATING ‘MECHANICALLY ORIENTED’ ENGINEERING STUDENTS
Farrugia, Philip; Borg, Jonathan; Camilleri, Kenneth // 2011
In our years of experience in training mechanical engineering students we found a strong tendency that due to the overall knowledge transfer they receive, these future engineers tend to be oriented ...
EXPLOITING NEIGHBORHOOD AND MULTI-DIMENSION GRANULAR INFORMATION FOR SUPPORTING DESIGN RATIONALE RETRIEVAL
Liu, Ying // 2011
Based on our previously proposed ISAL model (issue, solution and artifact layer) for design rationale (DR) representation, in this paper, we report our efforts in researching a ISAL based DR ...
EXPLORING CONSUMER NEEDS WITH LEWIN'S LIFE SPACE PERSPECTIVE
Kim, Kee-Ok; Hwang, Hye-sun // 2011
Consumer needs are assumed to be originated from tensions between perceptions of the self and the environment by which the whole psychological field, life space, is developed. Dual research problems ...
EXPLORING POTENTIALS FOR CONSERVATIONAL REASONING USING TOPOLOGIC RULES OF FUNCTION STRUCTURE GRAPHS
Sen, Chiradeep; Summers, Joshua; Mocko, Gregory Michael // 2011
This paper explores the possibility of supporting automated function-based reasoning in the conceptual design phase, specifically, reasoning needed to perform physics-based concept validation. Eleven ...
EXPLORING THE SYNTHESIS OF INFORMATION IN DESIGN PROCESSES – OPENING THE BLACK-BOX
Gumienny, Raja; Lindberg, Tilmann; Meinel, Christoph // 2011
Information synthesis is an important part of design processes as it ensures to integrate, organize, filter, and evaluate essential information and constraints for the design solution. However, there ...
EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY FOR SUPPORTING COMPLEX SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Liang, Helen; Birch, David // 2011
The advent of computer-based tools to aid the design process has meant that larger set of design parameters can be taken into consideration. It also means that other factors, such as those associated ...
FACILITATING CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING WORKSHOPS: EMPIRICAL OBSERVATIONS AT A SWEDISH AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY
Lund, Katarina; Tingström, Johan // 2011
Being creative often includes putting ideas together in new combinations and approaching problems in new ways. It is a process which can be difficult and frustrating since it demands that we ...
FACING THE OPEN INNOVATION DILEMMA – STRUCTURING INPUT AT THE COMPANY’S BORDER
Kain, Andreas Stefan; Kirschner, Rafael Johannes; Lang, Alexander; Lindemann, Udo // 2011
Open innovation makes the company’s border permeable for knowledge exchange with outside world. Various ways exist on which ideas can flow into the company’s product development process as well as ...
FAILURE MODE AND EFFECTS ANALYSIS IN COMBINATION WITH THE PROBLEM SOLVING A3
Lodgaard, Eirin; Pellegård, Øystein; Ringen, Geir; Klokkehaug, Jon Andreas // 2011
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a methodology that may contribute to identify and reduce risks during the product design phase. Although this is a widely used methodology within several ...
FLUENCY AND FLEXIBILITY OF CONCEPTS ARISING FROM PERSONALISED IDEATION TECHNIQUES
Field, Bruce William // 2011
When presented with a novel problem, a novice designer faces the daunting task of formulating suitable concepts to develop into a solution. Some novices, with a creative flair, can easily conceive ...
FOUNDATIONS FOR A NEW TYPE OF DESIGN-ENGINEERS
Jorgensen, Ulrik; Lindegaard, Hanne; Brodersen, Søsser; Boelskifte, Per // 2011
Since 2002 a new design-engineering education has been organized at the Technical University of Denmark. It fulfils most of the requirements in the CDIO concept but builds in addition on a change in ...
GENERIC MODEL OF THE EARLY PHASES OF AN INNOVATION PROCESS REGARDING DIFFERENT DEGREES OF PRODUCT NOVELTY
Orawski, Robert; Krollmann, Jan; Mörtl, Markus; Lindemann, Udo // 2011
Innovation processes are developed for various reasons, e.g. formalization, communication or controlling of development activities. There is a big variety of innovation processes and especially for ...
GETTING TO SUSTAIN (-ABLE SYSTEMS) VIA USING SURVIVABLE AND IMPOSE-ABLE ONES
Greene, Richard Tabor // 2011
A question posted to MIT allumni on Linkedin attracted responses by 371 engineers about what their engineering education lacked. Part of that data presented a crowd-sourced new theory of sustainable ...
GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT BY A CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION APPROACH – APPLICATION TO SHIP-ECODESIGN
Larroude, Vincent; Yvars, Pierre-Alain; Millet, Dominique // 2011
After demonstrating the feasibility of the inversion of a ship emission model with the CSP approach, we will now discuss about the optimization of emissions. In a first time, a single-objective ...
HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM CONCEPT GENERATION
Rosenstein, David; Reich, Yoram // 2011
The most important stage in a product life cycle is the conceptual design which involves uncertainty but also opportunity. The SOS method of generating product design alternatives [1] is expanded ...
HOW DESIGN RESEARCHERS CAN LEAD HIGHER EDUCATION TO A GREATER IMPACT ON SOCIETY
Howard, Thomas James; McMahon, Christopher A; Giess, Matthew David // 2011
This paper argues for the lead rôle that the engineering design research community can have in aiding SMEs. The paper details findings based on several rounds of calls and meetings with a total of ...
HOW IMPORTANT IS TEAM STRUCTURE TO TEAM PERFORMANCE?
Singh, Vishal; Dong, Andy; Gero, John S // 2011
This paper discusses the effects of team structure on the performance of design teams. Three types of team structures are differentiated on the basis of the functional and social groups that result ...
HOW PRODUCT REPRESENTATION TYPES ARE PERCEIVED AT THE CLIENT’S END TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION AND DECISION MAKING
Liem, Andre // 2011
The ability to communicate effectively, honestly and convincingly to design clients, according to the required level of understanding, is important to facilitate decision making in the designing ...
HOW TO VALIDATE RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING DESIGN?
Barth, Alex; Caillaud, Emmanuel; Rose, Bertrand // 2011
Research in engineering design is a rapidly growing field of interest with an increasingly complex and multi-disciplinary nature, and it has been difficult for researchers to structure its contents. ...
IDEA SCREENING IN ENGINEERING DESIGN USING EMPLOYEE-DRIVEN WISDOM OF THE CROWDS
Onarheim, Balder; Christensen, Bo // 2011
The paper investigates the question of screening ideas in the ‘fuzzy front end’ of engineering design, examining the validity of employee voting schemes and related biases. After an employee-driven ...
Boolean Searches
The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:
- design community
Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. - +design +community
Find rows that contain both words. - +design community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”. - +design -community
Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”. - +design ~community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not. - +design +(>community <decisions)
Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions” - design*
Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”. - "some words"
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.