Query returned 1983 results.
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 ...
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 ...
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.