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Comparing the transfer process from High School to Higher Education in the UK with Iran
Mortezaei, Seyed-Reza; Morris, Richard; Katz, Tim // 2009
Like many Product Design based courses, applicants to the BSc (Hons) Product Design courses at the University of Brighton are required to undertake an interview as part of the assessment process. At ...
Creating a better world? Can we relate this to students from the post-modern generation?
Dowlen, Chris // 2009
This paper relates the conference theme to a topic that was introduced at the 2001 E&PDE conference and developed at the 2005 ICED conference, and to papers at the 2006 and 2007 E&PDE conferences. It ...
Creative Environments for Innovative Learning Processes
Eriksson, Yvonne; Jerregård, Helena // 2009
Visual arte facts, such as toys, pictures in schoolbooks and advertisements affect children emotionally, and they are crucial as role model for their identity. Identity and self-confidence is vital ...
Cross-Disciplinary Practice in Engineering Contexts
Adams, Robin S. // 2009
Engineering design is inherently cross-disciplinary. Many complex design problems facing society today require cross-disciplinary approaches that integrate diverse perspectives into a collective ...
Cross-educating in design, business and engineering: challenges of coherence and relevance
Koria, Mikko; Karjalainen, Toni-Matti; Salimäki, Markku // 2009
Industry has shown increasing demand for professionals that are able to successfully operate across disciplinary boundaries, and academia has responded to the call by creating models for inter-, ...
Cultural affordance of products: coverage within industrial design education
Razzaghi, Mohammad; Ramirez, Mariano // 2009
Products are regarded as possessing not only physical properties but also subjective qualities such as culturally-based user preferences. To communicate these cultural aspects, products must "afford" ...
Decision-making in Design: A Comparative Study
Almendra,A.Rita; Christiaans,Henri // 2009
This paper presents a comparative study of the design processes of nal-year industrial design students of 2 countries while conducting an individual design task. This task was identical for both ...
Design as knowledge creation
Allert, Heidrun; Richter, Christoph // 2009
Design as knowledge creation conceptualizes design as a process of open-ended inquiry aimed to create innovative products and foster deeper understanding of the design space. The model encourages ...
Design at a Distance
Holden, Georgina // 2009
The Open University has been teaching design at a distance for three decades. In this time delivery mechanisms have changed from non-interactive broadcasts to interactive media. A new generation of ...
Design Education: a 'new' paradigm, design and provenance
Crisp, Alan Roy; Dale, James; Arthur, Lesley // 2009
The author has developed throughout the preceding two years both a pedagogic philosophy of design, the culture of which, is passed to the students through a unique paradigm and secondly certain ...
Design for extreme environment: experience of Russian MD course
Garin, Nickolay; Usenyuk, Svetlana; Panova, Maria; Kukanov, Denis // 2009
Russia is the largest northern polycultural country, i.e. the territory of environmental and cultural extremes. The issue of comfortable human existence may be solved by creating a 'new culture' as ...
Design Interventions: Economic Development and Educational Enhancement
Wood, Bruce // 2009
Economic development agencies at national and regional levels have recognised the importance of design and creativity as a driver toward growth, wealth creation and potentially company and job ...
Design Thinking Challenges in Education
Ericson, Åsa; Bergström, Mattias; Larsson, Andreas; Törlind, Peter // 2009
Product development processes are commonly represented in sequential models covering the necessary stages from planning to product rollout, while processes to take needs into the development ...
Design vs. re-design, and how to innovate
Leblanc, Tatjana // 2009
Responsive to the challenges of modern times, designers and educators see the need to re-examine their role and responsibility. Several of them adopted human-centered approaches that make the user ...
Designing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Engineering and Management
Ekman, Sten; Ekman, Annalill // 2009
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how to design entrepreneurial mindsets in different academic cultures and its motives with focus on engineering and management education. Empirical data are ...
Developing creative engineers: a design approach to engineering education
de Vere, Ian // 2009
Despite an increase in calls for reform of engineering education, engineering faculties continue to focus somewhat narrowly on the science of engineering, without sufficient curriculum opportunities ...
Development of Rubric-Based Assessment Methodology for Student Design Projects
Woodhall, Thomas F. C.; Strong, David S. // 2009
Education research strongly links methods of course assessment with the student learning process. In open-ended engineering design courses, assessment based on student deliverables as ...
Does sponsored studio teaching undermine or facilitate the growth of the design profession?
Liem, Andre // 2009
Changing technologies, attitudes and perceptions within industry and society has continuously stimulated and challenged the design profession. For some actors and organisations in the design field, ...
Ecodesign integration in education: the utility of an existing multidisciplinary design methodology
Bergen, Jan Peter; Verhulst, Elli // 2009
Over the last decades, sustainable development increases to be a major global issue. Within this scope, new product innovations might lead to a more sustainable future. The role of the industrial ...
Ecodesign tools in design education
Lofthouse, Vicky // 2009
Over the last 10 years the Department of Design and Technology at Loughborough University has introduced over 600 design students to a suite of qualitative and quantitative sustainable design tools. ...
Educating the responsible engineer; socially responsible design and sustainability in the curriculum.
de Vere, Ian; Bissett-Johnson, Katherine; Thong, Christine // 2009
Engineering should serve the community in a socially responsible and sustainable manner. In order to achieve this, the engineering profession must progress from the role of technical service ...
Education of NPD in Virtual Multi-X Environments
c.Vukašinovi,Nikola; Fain,Nuša; Žavbi,Roman; Duhovnik,Jože // 2009
Cost competitiveness, energy price, geographic dispersion of human, knowledge and material resources are forcing companies to outsource and spread the tasks among companies and partners all around ...
Education of T-shaped Technical Innovation (MBA) Managers
Gerson, Philips M.; Ramond, Bruno // 2009
The Open-Dynamic Design research and experiments within an international network learned that the key for successful Technical Innovation are T-shaped engineers, with a solid technical foundation ...
Educational studies in relation between subjective concepts and abstract forms
Khorsandian, Shadman; Moghaddam, Nasrin; Tashakorinia, Zahra // 2009
Teaching form studies is one of the main branches of Industrial Design; accordingly, a course named "Form and Space" has been included in the Industrial Designers' syllabus. Form is an important ...
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.