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Personalizing our Approach to Design

Siggard, Jennifer Liane; Furner, Tressa Ellen; Sumsion, Cecily; Morgan, David // 2014
Our Industrial Design program is predominantly male. As women, we compared our performance and methods to those of our male classmates’. In our eyes, we lacked something that we could not pinpoint. ...

Political Action and Implicit Knowledge in Engineering Education: A Case Study

Bromberg, Sergio; Polo, Viviana // 2014
The educational act is a political act, where information and data are just a fraction of what should be taught. Indeed, there has been much literature on the subject of promoting creativity, ...

Positive Ethics in Design Education

Sonneveld, Marina Henrieke // 2014
Technology has a strong impact on the way we live our lives, on our behaviour. Technology seems thereby to be a strong factor in the ethical aspects of our daily live. Being aware of these aspects is ...

Problem Based Learning versus Design Thinking in Team Based Project Work

Stokholm, Marianne // 2014
All educations at Aalborg University has since 1974 been rooted in Problem Based Learning (PBL). In 1999 a new education in Industrial design was set up, introducing Design Based Learning (DBL). ...

Product Design Education: Different Perspectives

Connor, Christopher John; Beckwith, Mark // 2014
This paper explores the differing approaches and experiences of two tertiary level courses provided by two UK University providers within the Product Design subject area. Both institutions provide ...

Promoting Environmental Sustainability by Fostering a Culture of Material Ethics

Chance, Shannon; O'Rourke, Pearl // 2014
Creating a culture of ‘material ethics’ can help engineers and product designers in the quest to achieve environmental sustainability. By framing this particular issue and focusing attention on it, ...

PROTOTYPING WITH LASER CUTTERS IN LARGE ENGINEERING DESIGN CLASSES

Meboldt, M.; Lohmeyer, Q.; Leutenecker ,B. // 2014
Laser cutters are small machine tools that process CAD data to accurately cut sheet material made of wood or acrylic glass. This paper investigates the question of how prototyping with laser cutters ...

Public Bicycles: How the Concept of Human-Oriented ‘Mobility Sharing’ Technology can Influence Travel Behaviour Norms and Reshape Design Education

Nikitas, Alexandros; Wallgren, Pontus; Rahe, Ulrike // 2014
se systems are currently on three dissimilar operational phases spanning from bidding for funding to actually having a fairly successful system already in place. As a matter of fact, the choice of ...

Putting Something into Play – Reflections on Video as a Creative Tool in Design

Vibeke, Sj // 2014
In design, video is typically used as a tool for presentation, instruction, or observation. The use of video for creation and discovery as part of the design process is new terrain. This article ...

Raising Designers' Awareness of User Experience by Mobile Eye Tracking Records

Mussgnug, Moritz; Lohmeyer, Quentin; Meboldt, Mirko // 2014
Understanding the interaction between a user and a product in different areas of application provides an excellent basis for the development of innovative user-oriented products. ...

Reflection in Design Education Using Visual Technology

Stoltenberg, Einar; Sj, Vibeke // 2014
Product design students are trained to express themselves through visual media like two-dimensional (2D) and 3D drawing, prototyping, and digital media. Thus, written language is not always their ...

Representation and Evaluation of Product Design in Research Assessment Exercises: A Case Study of the UK Ref 2014

Maher, Carmel; Hadfield, Mark; Hutchings, Maggie; de Eyto, Adam // 2014
The social practice of design and design research and is continually evolving to meet the needs of society. Its representation and evaluation in research assessment exercises, such as the UK ...

RP vs Workshop: How Modelling Methods affect Early Design Development

Underwood, Gary // 2014
has long been established as a crucial part of the Product Design process. In recent years Rapid Prototyping (RP) has played an increasingly important role in this area, within industry and ...

Sendai School of Design: Project Driven Design Education Based on a Wide Range of Highly Adaptive Collaboration

Motoe, Masashige // 2014
Sendai School of Design is a design education program to nurture collaborative creative workers as personnel who will help activate the local area launched by Tohoku University in cooperation with ...

Social Cohesion Design, A Course for Designing Community Integrated Product Systems

de Lange, Tjamme; Vergeest, Jors // 2014
Design students are typically not educated in systematically including aspects of social cohesion in their designer practice. This paper describes the Social Cohesion Design course, an explorative ...

Systems Engineering Design Education based on Multidisciplinary and Global Project based Learning

Inoue, Masahiro; Hasegawa , Hirosih; Mano, Kazunori; Furukawa, Yoshimi; Yamazaki, Atsuko; Aank , Khantachawana; Tachibana , Masahiko // 2014
We developed systems engineering design education program based on multidisciplinary and Global Project Based Learning (PBL). We also implemented the global PBL as a joint program of Shibaura ...

Teaching Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration in Design Projects with Engineering and Medical Students

Fox, Stephan; Kurtcuoglu, Vartan; Meboldt, Mirko // 2014
In order to meet the med-tech community’s high demand for innovation, the educational, cultural and communication gaps between medical doctors and design engineers need to be narrowed. Effective and ...

Teaching Design Engineering in an Interdisciplinary Programme

Wits, Wessel; Homminga, Jasper; Endedijk, Maaike; Visscher, Klaasjan; Krab-H, Leonie // 2014
ATLAS, the Academy of Technology and Liberal Arts & Sciences, is an interdisciplinary three-year Bachelor of Science honours programme for talented students that opened its doors in September 2013. ...

Teaching Digital Technologies in Industrial/Product Design Courses in Portugal

Dias, Ana Cristina; Almendra, Rita Assoreira; da Silva, Fernando Moreira // 2014
In full 21st century and living in a digital age, technology advancements have led to the development and use of digital media for product design projects’ support. It starts with education and ...

The Educational Design Ladder: Creation of a Multi-Discipline Design Thinking Program

Straker, Karla; Wrigley, Cara // 2014
As global industries change and technology advances, traditional education systems may no longer be able to supply companies with graduates possessing an appropriate mix of skills and experience. The ...

The Future of Engineering Design Education – An Australasian Perspective and Solution

Littlefair, Guy // 2014
This paper describes a unique initiative towards addressing the engineering skills shortage presently being experienced in Australia that has significance in the global engineering education ...

The Mindcard Concept: Increasing Interaction in Small Group Learning Settings

Mussgnug, Moritz; Bo, Stefan // 2014
Learning and teaching in small groups of students with less than ten participants is a common setting in engineering design education at ETH Zurich. It can vary from class teaching and coaching ...

The Research Paper as an Object of Communication in Industrial Design Educations

Dahl Thomsen, Bente; Botin, Lars // 2014
The writing of research papers gives students at industrial design education’s the opportunity to gain experience with design research and papers as an object of communication. Design research is an ...

The Role of Learning- and Presentation- Portfolios in Design Educations

Thomsen, Bente Dahl; Ovesen, Nis // 2014
Students that primarily study design through team-based projects often struggle to develop presentation portfolios that differentiate from the ones of other students. In the industry, design managers ...

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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