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Design to connect: an online database providing inspiration for design education and practice

Bleuzé, Tore; Detand, Jan; Debaets, Patrick // 2013
How to join two parts remains an important issue in product design and engineering. Many joining methods were developed throughout history, from beautiful wood joints over invisible adhesives to ...

Designing the difference in an inclusive way

Almendra, Rita Assoreira // 2013
This paper proposes inclusive product designing as a way of creating a more collaborative material culture and of engaging in a meaningful social dialogue among people. Illustrating the argument it ...

Discursive constructions of design and implications for engineering education

Premer Petersen, Rikke // 2013
Recognition of design discourses at play in professional practice is key when discussing ways to reintroduce designerly ways in engineering education. This paper outlines three design discourses ...

Effectiveness of ecodesign methods in assisting SMEs towards market success

Bugali, Munire Hilal; Gulari, Melehat Nil // 2013
This study focuses on how design can help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) achieve sustainability through implementing ecodesign approaches. The literature review on sustainability and ...

Empirical analysis of product design with different times and interruption levels

Djaloeis, Bima Raymond-Sati; Frenz, Martin; Duckwitz, Sönke;Hinsch, Malte Sebastian; Feldhusen, Jörg; Schlick, Christopher Marc // 2013
Effective and robust engineering design processes are vital in early phases of a product life cycle, such as in product design. This highly dynamic field of work is influenced by many interacting, ...

Empirical evaluation of flexible design concept generation procedures: A study in emergency services

Cardin, Michel-Alexandre; Ka-Ho Yue, Howard; Jiang, Yixin; Deng, Yinghan; Santhanakrishnan, Deepak // 2013
This paper presents the results of an empirical study of concept generation procedures enabling flexibility in engineering systems design. Evaluation of two educational training procedures (analogies ...

Engineering design education: skin deep or is there a need for body?

Parkinson, Brian; Edwards, Kevin // 2013
An engineering infrastructure through manufacturing industry is an important means of generating income capable of considerably benefiting national economies. From a general perspective engineering ...

Enhancing product sensory experience: cultural tools for design education

Colombo, Sara; Gorno, Roberta; Bergamaschi, Sara // 2013
-product interaction, and how this can be exploited to generate more pleasurable experiences. A possible strategy to fill this gap is the creation of tools able to transfer knowledge from this ...

Enhancing the concept generation capability of novice engineering designers

Leary, Martin John; Burvill, Colin; Field, Bruce // 2013
The professional contribution of an engineer often includes the generation of design concepts in response to an identified need. Concept generation creativity has multiple measures of interest, ...

Enriching requirement-activities in design through french-US instruction comparison

Prudhomme, Guy; Pourroy, Franck; Summers, Joshua David // 2013
Engineering requirements are taught through different approaches in US and French universities. In the globalization of engineering product development, these different approaches can introduce ...

EU-Optimus – a case study of a novel systems-approach pedagogy in technology education

Ahern, Ciara; McGrath, Mark // 2013
Engineers and product designers are concerned with the design, development, implementation and operation of a wide range of systems. If a system is to perform optimally, all of the component parts ...

Evolving an innovative design education environment: the Formula DIT story

McHale, Donal; McGrath, Mark; Woods, Gerry; Reddington, Bill; McEvoy, Derek // 2013
This paper describes the evolution of a Design Education Learning Environment within the School of Manufacturing & Design Engineering at the Dublin Institute of Technology. The environment has ...

Experience design tool: encouraging designers to consider different design and emotion strategies

Maclachlan, Mary; Wood, Bruce // 2013
This paper presents an overview of the existing research in the area of design and emotion and the resulting design strategies that have emerged to support it. Design strategies concerning, pleasure, ...

Experiencing China: an international project to promote design in industry and universities in Colombia

Patiño Santa, Luis Fernando; Velasquez-Montoya, Marcela // 2013
The Department of Product Design Engineering at Universidad EAFIT (Medellín, Colombia) created the “China 2012” international project in order to experience the evolution that is currently ...

Explaining the design & styling of future products

Eggink, Wouter; Reinders, Angèle // 2013
In many industries technological innovation is the most important driver of competitive success. Within our master curriculum Industrial Design Engineering, we therefore implemented a course that is ...

Exploring the effectiveness of design education in Iran using protocol analysis

Seyyedi Komjani, Ameneh Sadat; Mizan, Maryam; Saadat Niaki, Fater; Pourmohamadi, Morteza // 2013
This paper examines the effects of design education on performance of undergraduate Iranian design students. The study intends to evaluate the potentials of design education in Iran using empirical ...

Exploring the influence of self-confidence in product sketching

van Passel, Pepijn; Eggink, Wouter // 2013
The development of a student’s skills during design education partly depends on the amount of selfconfidence. Optimizing the speed and level of growth can be done by influencing factors related to ...

Expressing product character: teaching design students how to exploit form’s parameters

Ferraris, Silvia Deborah; Gorno, Roberta // 2013
Defining products’ aesthetic characteristics in terms of shape properties can represent a challenge for design students and sometimes for design professionals too. Outlining aesthetic features of ...

Fablabs in design education

Mostert-van der Sar, Manon; Mulder, Ingrid; Remijn, Leo; Troxler, Peter // 2013
The third industrial revolution, triggered by Internet communication and renewable energies, can be experienced in so-called FabLabs that empower users to ‘make almost anything’. Although this ...

Fighting poverty through design: Comparing design processes for the base and the top of the world income pyramid

Jagtap, Santosh; Larsson, Andreas; Hiort, Viktor; Olander, Elin; Warell, Anders; Khadilkar, Pramod // 2013
The base (BOP) and the top (TOP) of the world income pyramid represent the poor people and the people from developed countries, respectively. About two-fifths of the world population can be ...

How else might we learn to do design? Alternative visions for future development of skills for the profession

Dowlen, Chris // 2013
In the UK some eighteen-year olds are avoiding the high costs of University and entering employment directly. Presumably some of these might be interested in developing skills as designers. How might ...

How to teach design for manufacturability at micro scale tasks

Schulze, Volker; Zanger, Frederik; Hoppen, Philipp // 2013
Designing for manufacturability is a big challenge for every designer. Every manufacturing process has its characteristics and its limits. Costs and manufacturing time are often difficult to ...

Humanistic perspectives on design education: tools for reflection

Sonneveld, Marieke // 2013
Designing is not merely problem solving or facing challenges. It is also taking a personal position and responsibility about what a good solution to the problem is, and about what challenges are to ...

Impact of a change of environment on autonomy and design exploration

Loudon, Gareth Hugh; Gill, Steve; Wilgeroth, Paul // 2013
This research explored how a change of physical and social environment might affect a product design student’s ability to learn new design skills and to explore new design ideas. To do this, we ...

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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