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Accommodating Different Learning Styles: Bridging Math and Form

Ovesen, Nis // 2014
Design engineering educations often struggle to accommodate a highly diverse group of students as it combines an equally diverse range of topics in one education. This paper investigates how a ...

Aesthetics versus Usability: What Drives our Product Choices?

Trathen, Stephen // 2014
This research examined the influence of usability and aesthetic/emotive characteristics on prospective buyers’ preferences in pre-purchase product selection. Results indicate that while both ...

Anthropometrics 2.0: Enrichment of Classical Anthropometry through Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Verwulgen, Stijn; Lacko; De Bruyne, Guido; Danckaers, Femke; Christis, Naomi; Sijbers, Jan; Huysmans, Toon // 2014
State of the art computational methods might offer the opportunity to handle 3D anthropometrical information: in a collection of similar 3D shapes, when there is a correspondence of points, certain ...

Application of VR Technology in Design Education

Gebretsadik Teklemariam, Hailu; Kakati, Vikramjit; Das, Amarendra Kumar // 2014
In the era of globalization, design education is playing vital role in design of products and systems. Designers conceive products which are in their imagination and many a times these are virtually ...

CAN STUDENT COMPETITIONS FOSTER THE INNOVATIVE DESIGN?

Montagna, F.; Neirotti, P.; Paolucci ,E. // 2014
Student competitions, besides being designed to foster the educational goal of improving students’ skills and knowledge, aim also at fostering innovation, developing leading technology and new ...

Changes in Future Society and Engineering Education: Required Capacities and Strategies

Kim, Moon Kyum // 2014
This paper presents the capacities and strategies of engineering education coping with changes in our future society. Examining recent events predicting the features of future society and its ...

Collaborative Innovation: A Study of Creative Teamwork in Offshore Industry and in Design Education

Pavel, Nenad; Berg // 2014
Entrepreneurship is identified as a key activity to creating value to society as well as the successful adaption of the products and services to users’ lives. This is why entrepreneurship as concept ...

Computer Aided Cost Estimating

Ehlhardt, Huub // 2014
Digitalization provides us with increasingly sophisticated tools, such as 3D CAD and ERP, that have become drivers of innovation in many industries. Traditionally, estimating product cost requires ...

Conflicts Within Complex Contexts: The Relationship Between Facilitators and Participants in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy

Eggleston, John; Thong, Christine // 2014
Interdisciplinary collaborations are complex environments which yield complex relationships and encourage conflict by nature. This paper explores three instances of conflict as viewed through the ...

Corporate Co-operation in Design Education in Light of Situated Learning

Gulden, Tore; Skjelbred, Bente // 2014
This paper explores how one can understand corporate cooperation as part of design education in the light of theory on situated learning. The origin for the study is a cooperative project between ...

Creativity Awareness in Engineering Schools in Asia

Sosa, Ricardo; Wang, Poon King // 2014
Since definitions of creativity and innovation abound, it is far from trivial to understand the present and future potential of Asian engineering to be recognised as a source of creativity and ...

Creativity for a New Era

Kretschmer, Markus // 2014
Increasingly, sustainability turns out to be a key factor for the success of our product culture. However, as a consequence of globally changing conditions - such as shortages of raw material ...

Cultural Study in Design: In Search of a Meaningful Approach

van Boeijen, Annemiek // 2014
Does the Circuit of Culture help design students to do a cultural study that is meaningful for their design project? Indeed, it provides a good view on the phenomenon culture, its complexity and how ...

Culturally Influenced Learning: Why do some Students have Difficulty Visualising in 3D?

Milne, Mark; Morris, Richard; Katz, Tim; Covill, Derek; Elton, Eddy // 2014
This study is a continuation of a developing interest in the observed problems of a group of engineering students undertaking a first year BEng course in Mechanical Engineering, and in particular a ...

Curious Directions for Product Designers: How Technology is Affecting Medical Design Practice

Loy, Jennifer // 2014
Medical product design practice has changed over the last five years as advances in technology, both digital and practical, have opened up new opportunities to address patient needs in innovative ...

Demanding it All from the Novice Mechanical Engineer through Design and Manufacture

Masen, Marc; Brand, Andrew; Yan, Yanliuxing; Varley, Julie; Spence, Peter; Childs, Peter // 2014
A core design and manufacture group project has been run in the second year of the Mechanical Engineering undergraduate programme at Imperial College for over two decades where students are required ...

Demonstration and Evaluation in Design: Debating the Use of the Master-Apprentice Model in Virtual Learning Environmental

Ghassan, Aysar; Diels, Cyriel; Barrett, Alan // 2014
Rooted in face-to-face teaching, the ‘top-down’ master-apprentice model is the dominant pedagogical approach in design education. Through reflecting on the results from two case studies, we discuss ...

Design and Implementation of Engineering Design Thinking and Design Practice Modules

Wan Chin, Tan; Yee Siong Liang, Peter; Pheow Hwa, Lek // 2014
Singapore’s economy underwent a remarkable transformation within five decades spanning from the 1960s to the new millenium to emerge as the heart of Asia’s economy. In response to the rapid changes ...

Design Education: Fostering the Conditions for Transfer Through a Structured and Critical Approach to Reflective Practice

Ellmers, Grant; Bennett, Sue; Brown, Ian // 2014
The application of project-based and studio-based learning in design education is widespread. For this multiple-project curriculum to be effective, it is important students transfer their learning ...

Design Pedagogy and the Threshold of Uncertainty

Tovey, Michael John; Osmond, Jane // 2014
There is a long tradition of teaching design through design practice in universities and colleges. The end goal for graduates is to achieve a level of capability to function as designers in the ...

Design Reasoning Patterns in NPD Education Design

Juuti, Tero Sakari; Lehtonen, Timo; Kaisu, R. // 2014
arch methodology. We use data from our six teaching development projects, most of them reported in earlier E&PDE conferences, the reports and related research. The map is updated based on the ...

Design Research: The Application in Professional Design Practice and Teaching in Design Education

Sung, Wooyoung; Giard, Jacques // 2014
Design research has become important in both design education and design practice. For design education, its role is in the identification of problems as well as the understanding of user behavior; ...

Designers in Design Thinking

Braun, Erika; Moreland, Jessica; Sanders, Emma; Gill, Carolina // 2014
esign thinking as a tool for innovation. While its popularity has opened up new and exciting opportunities for all design professions, when design thinking is packaged as a strategy to deliver ...

Designing Home Decor Products for Umbra, within the International Collaboration format as an Academic Experience for Undergraduate Students

Mar, Alejandra // 2014
Product Design Engineering at Universidad EAFIT offers a special undergraduate course that allows students to have their curriculum in a flexible way. The main goal is to design home decor products ...

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.

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