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Students Response to Open-Ended Problems in an Engineering Design Project
VO, Markus // 2012
Engineering Design is not teachable without letting students explore the design process on their own. Therefore students are often confronted with open-ended problems in Engineering Design projects. ...
Sustainability Curricula in Design Education
Casais, Mafalda; Christiaans, Henri; Almendra, Rita // 2012
While sustainability in Design finds much attention in the literature, the education of sustainability in Design courses lacks discussion regarding curricula and importance. In an attempt to map the ...
Sustainable Development Primers for Design Students: A Comparative Study
Garland, Nigel Patrick; Khan, Zulfiqar Ahmed; Palmer, Sarah // 2012
Within the higher education sector there has been progress incorporating or embedding sustainable development concepts into the engineering and design curriculum. Despite guidance from the ...
Teaching Conceptual Design
FERREIRA, João ; CHRISTIAANS, Henri // 2012
This paper presents the first observational study of an ongoing research project. The research focuses on ‘teaching conceptual design’ and on the investigation of new teaching methods and ...
Teaching Principles of Qualitative Analysis to Industrial Design Engineers
Stappers, Pieter Jan // 2012
Doing qualitative field research has become a standard part of academic human-centred design education. Part of the challenge is to bring design students a thorough understanding of research methods, ...
Team Designing - Facilitation of Design Learning Using a Systemic Model of Design
Denise, Marianne; Stokholm, Jessen // 2012
Future wellbeing is depending on human competences in order to strengthen a sustainable development. This requires system thinking and ability to deal with complexity, dynamic and a vast of ...
Technology-Driven Innovation: Applying the Technology to Product Tool in an Educational Setting
De Keersmaecker, Ann; Jacoby, Alexis; Baelus, Chris // 2012
Technology to Product is a software tool to support technology driven innovation at the Front End of Innovation. The tool is result of a close collaboration with researchers (Artesis University ...
THE AMBIGUOUS ROLE OF METHODS IN Design education: INITIAL FINDINGS FROM THE DELFT METHOD STUDY
Daalhuizen, J.; Person, O.; Gattol, V. // 2012
A design method is often portrayed as something a designer can follow—like a road—to reach a predetermined outcome. This view raises the expectation that any designer is able to successfully apply a ...
The Challenges of Becoming Agile – Experiences from New Product Development in Industry and Design Education
Ovesen, Nis; Dowlen, Chris // 2012
During the last decade agile methods have been a vast success in the domain of software development. This paper investigates whether these methods can be successfully transferred to the domain of ...
The Creative Engineer: Sketching for Dummies
Daniel, John // 2012
Earlier studies demonstrate the importance of visualizing problems, and how the sketch manages to catch the ambiguity of the design process. It creates new ways for idea generation in an individual ...
The Design of Teaching Protocols that Develop Creativity, Innovation and Innovative Thinking within Higher Education Business Schools - A Transfer of Best Practice from Design and Engineering Education Principles
Styger, Lee EJ // 2012
Typically, the construct of innovation within business education has focused around the concept of developing innovative and creative leaders of business. This is particularly so in the higher ...
The Development and Evaluation of a Relationship Diagram Tool to Aid Design Thinking in Nursing Education
Ishii, N.; Kato, Y.; Sugawara, G.; Suzuki, Y.; Sakuma, S. // 2012
The drawing of a relationship diagram like a concept map is one of the design thinking in nursing education. In the context of nursing education, learning effects from having students draw ...
The Future of Industrial Design Higher Education Driven by Models of Design Thinking and Reasoning
Liem, Andre; Sigurjonsson, Johannes B. // 2012
This conceptual paper argues that the future of industrial design education is determined by the ability of design programs to consciously position themselves according to higher education trends. ...
The Impact of ‘Service Design’ on the Industrial Design Engineering Curriculum
Visser, Froukje Sleeswijk; Stappers, Pieter Jan // 2012
Recently, both media and practice are dealing with a wave of interest in “service design”. Some present this as a radically new approach to product development that overarches the established ...
The Importance of Play and Creativity in the Design Curriculum
Loudon, Gareth; Wilgeroth, Paul; Deininger, Gina // 2012
It is more important than ever that our product design graduates have a better understanding of how to enhance their creative skills in order to design and develop new innovative products. This paper ...
The Nordcode Network: A Scandinavian Approach to Doctoral Education in Design
Keitsch, Martina Maria // 2012
Artefacts play an important role in culture and society and contribute to how we see, interpret and communicate about the world. However, scientific knowledge on how these artefacts are designed, ...
Transfer of Engineering Experience by Shared Mental Models
Albers, Albert; Turki, Tarak; Lohmeyer, Quentin // 2012
The transfer of experience is a great challenge in design education and several approaches support this transfer process. Students gain their own experience in educational project works or they learn ...
Using the Hanze Model for Curriculum Development to Optimize Design Projects in the Bachelor Curriculum Program Product Development
Corremans, Jan A.M.; Coppieters, Werner // 2012
The integration of human, technological and economic aspects in product design is considered to be the most important competence of an industrial designer. A designer has to integrate aesthetic ...
A Creative Tool to Break Habits: Breakdown of Functions, Disassociations & Counter Questions (bdc)
Gulden, Tore; Berg, Arild // 2011
Research and practice have engendered several creative tools on how to generate ground-breaking products with less environmental impact adjusted to a down-to-earth production state. However the ...
A PROPOSAL FOR AN ASSESSMENT FORM FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN THESES
Watty, Robert; Kreimeyer, Matthias // 2011
To evaluate a student’s work best possible, the assessment of theses written as part of the curriculum has to meet certain standards from both an academic and an industrial perspective to fully ...
A Review of Open ICT Tools for Collaborative Teaching & Learning
Bohemia, Erik; Turnock, Chris // 2011
The Open ICT Tools project explored the use of open source Web 2.0 applications to facilitate collaboration between School of Design at Northumbria University and its international business and ...
A Service Approach to Course Development
Watt, Cameron; Ely, Philip; Chapman, Damian // 2011
Like many other organizations in both the private and public sectors Higher Education (HE) Institutions are facing challenging and traumatic times as the UK becomes further and mired in the worst ...
A Usable Evaluation Tool for Designers
Woodcock, Andree; Fielden, Simon; Bartlett, Richard // 2011
Evaluation is an essential and yet largely overlooked component in design education. Although a more user centred, inclusive approach to design is now advocated, practicing designers may not have ...
A Workshop Supporting Creativity in Distributed Design Education
Grierson, Hilary; Hernandez,Jose // 2011
The practice of distributed design is gradually being adopted by leading organisations which viw this approach to the new product development (NPD) process as an opportunity to achieve competitive ...
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.