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Knowledge management: a new educational challenge for student design projects
Huet, Greg; Vadean, Aurelian; Spooner, Daniel; Camarero, Ricardo // 2009
The need for Knowledge Management (KM) related to product development activities is well established, but its practice and implementation often fall short of professional expectations. This reality ...
Leaders by Design: Engineering Design as a Tool for Developing Leadership Skills
Federighi, Marco; Clark, Anna // 2009
We describe the development of a new, design-centered undergraduate program in the Department of Civil Engineering at UCL. We discuss how educational aims, criteria for admission, curriculum ...
London Design Map: Design Schools
Green, Stephen // 2009
Design is widely recognised as an important component of the creative industries (design based businesses), and as part of business innovation (an ingredient within successful business), both of ...
Making intelligent products for a better world
De Grande, Guido; Baelus, Chris // 2009
Product design education has a special relationship with respect to the design of electronic products. Should students be able to design complete electronic schemes and develop PCB's? Is a working ...
Meaning Driven Materials Selection in Design Education
Karana, Elvin // 2009
The shift towards more intangible aspects of materials in design practice has not been adapted to the design education system yet. In informal discussions with design students across years, we saw ...
Modifying Design Pedagogy to Develop New Approaches to Sustainability
Hillen, Veronique Beatrice; Banerjee, Banny // 2009
Challenges in sustainability represent complex problems with multi-dimensional, interlaced issues. Design education has responded to the need to address such issues by incorporating sustainability ...
Postgraduate Programmes in Design: Creating New Horizons for Design Graduates in India
Mehta,Shashank // 2009
Application of novel design concepts and enterprising design practitioners are the need of the hour in contemporary India. As it is emerging as one of Asia's most prosperous economies, India ...
Problem Formulation as a Discursive Design Activity
Hansen, Claus Thorp; Dorst, Kees; Andreasen, Mogens Myrup // 2009
In the design methodology literature, design is often described as a rational problem solving process. This approach has been very successful; it has lead to the creation of design process models, ...
Properties of Elementary Structural Elements for Synthesis of Conceptual Technical Systems
c.Rihtarši,Janez; Žavbi, Roman ; Duhovnik,Jože // 2009
Structural synthesis of conceptual technical systems is a result of transformation from the functional domain into the structural domain. To enable semi-automated synthesis of conceptual technical ...
Realization of Modern Educational Concepts in Engineering Design
Meerkamm, Harald; Stockinger, Andreas; Tremmel, Stephan; Wartzack, Sandro // 2009
This paper gives an overview of engineering design education at University .... Due to the transformation of the traditional German degree programs to an educational system based on two cycles ...
Reducing Lead Time in Cutting Tool Development By Implementing Blitz QFD
Bylund, Nicklas; Wolf, Mathias; Mazur, Glen // 2009
A cutting tool producer aims to reduce the lead time from finding customer needs to achieving peak sales. There are many approaches to improving a company's new product development process in ...
Reflection on effects and students' acceptance of methodical competence trainings
Geis, Christian; Birkhofer, Herbert // 2009
A methodical procedure can assist design teams in developing innovative and successful products. Nevertheless, university education often neglects the aspects of methodical teamwork. In this paper we ...
Repacking Design Theory in Green
Nay, Eric Matthew // 2009
Rethinking "design thinking" as a curricular exercise takes on extra cache as the Ontario College of Art & Design rebrands and repositions itself within the landscape of art and design ...
Satisfying the needs of the handicapped to aid design education: case study
Thomann, Guillaume; Museau, Matthieu; Rasoulifar, Rahi; De Castro Perez, Diana // 2009
Research in design education recently showed an increasing interest the confrontation of engineering student and the real design activities. Although many student contributions to the industrial ...
Stigma: addressing negative associations of artefacts in product design
Stockton, Glynn M. // 2009
Inclusive Design is the practice of providing access to a solution for as many users as possible. However, stigma can be seen as the Achilles heel of Inclusive Design, as it is possible for artefacts ...
Stimulating a creative approach to learning about a manufacturing process
Loy, Jennifer Elizabeth // 2009
As educators, we understand the theory of student-centered learning, but translating that into practical projects for students is a challenge compared to traditional lecturer-led, exam based ...
Student Facebook connections in a Global Project Based Engineering Design Course
Suzuki, Sushi; Leifer, Larry // 2009
In this study, thirty-five students in eight teams were surveyed on their use of different communication technologies during a two-week design exercise. In addition, the three teaching assistants ...
Style-branding, aesthetic design DNA
Eves, Bob; Hewitt, Jon // 2009
This paper is a continuation from papers presented at previous PDE, EPDE and SEED conferences. The paper outlines research being developed by the Creative Design Research Group and taught on design ...
Survey of Wikis as a Design Support Tool
Walthall, Carolynn; Sauter, Christian; Deigendesch, Tobias; Devanathan, Srikanth; Albers, Albert; Ramani, Karthik // 2009
The use of design notebooks has long been common practice for engineers and designers. Wikis, freely editable collections of web sites, are becoming increasingly popular as flexible documentation and ...
Sustainability and design education: from products to practices
Marchand, Anne // 2009
The first and main part of this paper discusses the importance for the field of design for sustainability to encompass approaches that both consider the notions of eco-efficiency and sufficiency. The ...
Taking on Australian industrial design education: current practice and future directions
Trathen, Stephen Douglas; Varadarajan, Soumitri // 2009
There is much international discussion regarding the role of industrial design in a rapidly changing world. Immediate employment needs can lead to a focus on design skills and knowledge needed today. ...
Teaching sustainable design through a creative approach to technology and recycling
Sazhina, Elena; Manzanares, Elizabeth // 2009
A recent study to integrate sustainable development into teaching process for undergraduate and postgraduate students at School of Environment and Technology (SET), Faculty of Science and Engineering ...
Telling Design Stories: The Result or the Entrepreneuring Investigation
Karanian, Barbara A.; Kress, Gregory L.; Sadler, Joel // 2009
Understanding the parallel elements between the artistic desire that drives the design process and how telling stories drives new design elements is the focus for this preliminary investigation. Two ...
The changing role of the industrial designer with the growing sustainability imperative
Loy, Jennifer Elizabeth // 2009
How does the role of the industrial designer change in response to the sustainability imperative? In practical terms, how does sustainability affect what the designer does and the outcomes that can ...
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.