SIG Library

Query returned 1880 results.

ADAPTING INDUSTRIAL DESIGN EDUCATION TO FUTURE CHALLENGES OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Liem, Andre; Sigurjonsson, Johannes B. // 2011
This paper discusses how Design Education should be adapted to the future challenges of higher education. Four (4) trends will be presented on how prospective design programs are to be developed. ...

ADOPTION OF A SYSTEMATIC DESIGN PROCESS: A STUDY OF COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON DESIGN

Morgan, Thea; Tryfonas, Theo // 2011
This paper presents an ethnographic case study of an engineering design team during the development and implementation of a systematic design process. Prior to this the team had used only adhoc and ...

Agile Attitude: Review of Agile Methods for use in Design Education

Ovesen, Nis; Tollestrup, Christian; Eriksen, Kaare // 2011
Motivated by the growing number of hybrid products with extensive software and service components, this paper reviews four representative agile methods from the domain of software for their ...

An Academic Design Methodology for Electrical Mobility products - from Necessity to Functional Prototype

Osorio, Gómez; Gilberto, Mejía; Gutiérrez, Ricardo; Sierra ,Zuluaga; Luis, Fernando // 2011
The Product Design Engineering (PDE) program at EAFIT University – Colombia has been the first in its kind at local level, searching for a good compromise between both engineering and industrial ...

AN ETHICAL STANCE: ENGINEERING CURRICULA DESIGNED FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

de Vere, Ian; Melles, Gavin; Kapoor, Ajay // 2011
Engineering must provide the global community with socially responsible, ethical and sustainable design solutions. The potential for engineering designers to contribute positively to the betterment ...

An Integrated Approach to Developing Higher Graduate Skills in Design Education

Spruce, Jon // 2011
This paper highlights some of the current discussions surrounding the appropriate development of design education in the UK. In particular it draws attention to the increasing calls from both ...

Approaches to a Cross-Cultural Engineering Design Theory

Brezing, Alexander Nikolaus; Childs, Peter; Yim, Hyunjune; Bland, Paul Wilson; Rau, Pei-Luen Patrick // 2011
Engineering Design Theory as an integral part of engineering education serves the purpose of structuring the actions and thinking processes of practitioners in order to increase the efficiency of the ...

Are Entrepreneurship and Transformative Innovation Appropriate as Prime Foci for Product Design Curricula?

Lawson, Stuart // 2011
Should the teaching of business skills and knowledge within the context of Product Design BA and Masters-level curricula be focussed more towards entrepreneurship and transformative innovation than ...

AROUND YOU: HOW DESIGNERS GET INSPIRED

Gonçalves, Milene Guerreiro; Cardoso, Carlos; Badke-Schaub, Petra // 2011
Searching for sources for inspiration during the design process is a widespread activity and it is considered as a crucial step for most designers, independent of the degree of expertise. However, ...

Assessing creativity: proposition

Askland, Hedda Haugen; Ostwald, Michael J; Williams, Anthony // 2011
The assessment of creative works is one of the most contentious issues facing contemporary design educators. This problem was first recognised by Donald Schön (1985, 1987) in his early work of ...

ASSOCIATIVE THINKING AS A DESIGN STRATEGY AND ITS RELATION TO CREATIVITY

Casakin, Hernan // 2011
Associative thinking can help designers to reflect over a problem situation by focusing on unrelated perspectives. During this process, a mapping of high order relations can be established between a ...

Challenging Innovative Thinking among Design Students through “Cultural” Goal Finding in the Fuzzy-Front-End

Liem, Andre // 2011
Within the context of integrated product development, the level of innovative success in formulating an effective product strategy and a design goal is highly dependent on how thorough ”Product ...

Changing Mindsets, Improving Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Education

Berglund, Anders; Klasén, Ida; Hansson, Mats; Grimheden, Martin // 2011
Universities need to reconfigure and rethink existing engineering beliefs in order to keep promoting students that can target and capitalize on tomorrow’s opportunities. This put pressure on ...

CHARACTERIZATION OF LEADERSHIP WITHIN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING DESIGN TEAMS THROUGH CASE STUDY ANALYSIS

Palmer, Gary; Summers, Joshua // 2011
The paper explores leadership that exists within undergraduate engineering design teams. Often, leadership is described based on managerial styles, leadership types and styles, emotional ...

Creating Innovation: Stifling Education

Crisp, Alan Roy // 2011
Business, commerce and industry are extolled to be creative, innovative and entrepreneurial, education, particularly HE is now drawn into the arena, but in what sense and for why? One questions at ...

Creating Inspiration in Design Education

Sonneveld, Marina Henrieke // 2011
To become a designer is to develop oneself as a creative person: an authentic personality with a strong drive to explore new paths and to create new possibilities. This development needs to be ...

Creating Participatory Design Tools: A Didactic Experience

Canina, Marita; Coccioni, Elisabetta // 2011
The aim of this paper is to describe the didactic experimentation conducted on the involvement of the user in the design process at the Politecnico of Milan during the Final Synthesis Design Studio ...

Curriculum Design: Among the Ideological and Emotional: Ruptures and Sutures.

Polo, Viviana // 2011
Training in design requires multiple optical undeniably, that allow their formation and action curriculum. So, from the basic definition of design as a science that can be integrated to validate the ...

Design education and research intertwined

van Grondelle, Elmer; Jacobs, Jan; de Bont, Cees; van Egmond, Rene // 2011
The specialization Advanced Automotive Design, at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology, was launched In 2006. The educational structure of the specialization ...

DESIGN INSPIRED INNOVATION FOR RURAL INDIA

Ekman, Sten; Ekman, Annalill; Salunkhe, Uday; Agarwal, Anuja // 2011
The need for reducing poverty and to develop the standard of living in rural areas around the world is enormous. Ideas for new approaches have to be implemented. Design thinking and methods combined ...

Design Thinking and Analysis a Case Study in Design for Social Wellbeing

Dorst,Kees; Tietz, Christian // 2011
In the last few years, “Design Thinking” has gained popularity – it is now seen as an exciting new paradigm for dealing with problems in sectors as a far afield as IT, Business, Education and ...

DESIGNING WITH A SOCIAL CONSCIENCE: AN EMERGING AREA IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN EDUCATION AND PRACTICE

Ramirez, Mariano // 2011
In recent decades, a growing number of those in the industrial design profession have shown concern for socio-ethical issues and pondering the impacts of their work on the planet and its peoples. ...

DEVELOPING A DRAWING CULTURE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

de Vere, Ian; Kapoor, Ajay; Melles, Gavin // 2011
Sketching is integral to the design process, as it allows reflection in action, enables ambiguity and abstraction, encourages the unexpected, externalises mental imagery, and provokes creativity ...

DEVELOPING AN ECOLOGY OF MIND IN DESIGN

Dewberry, Emma Louise // 2011
The relationship between design and sustainability (DfS) is forever evolving: from the early focus on cleaner production processes and resource efficiencies to more recent endeavours to promote ...

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.

Please sign in to your account

This site uses cookies and other tracking technologies to assist with navigation and your ability to provide feedback, analyse your use of our products and services, assist with our promotional and marketing efforts, and provide content from third parties. Privacy Policy.