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The design of Eco Board Games as an umbrella approach to sustainable product design education

Boks, Casper; McAloone, Tim // 2009
The multidisciplinarity and quickly broadening scope of sustainable product design education provide incentives for experimentation with different pedagogical techniques. One of these, involving the ...

The development of an on-line learning & teaching resource for the socio-centric aspects of sustainable design

Conrad, Franziska; Humphries-Smith, Tania // 2009
This paper fits into the topics of socially relevant design, design and emotion and sustainable design and explores the question how can we create a more sustainable way of life? The paper also ...

The future of design synthesis education

Acuña, Alejandro // 2009
The purpose of our research is to understand how industrial design students learn and formulate design synthesis and its relation to their own level of imagery. We also intend to understand how ...

The Pedagogy of Pre-Brief Activities for Industrial Design Undergraduates Operating at the ‘Fuzzy Front End’ of New Product Development

Wormald, Paul William // 2009
The processes of strategic innovation embedded into the so-called 'fuzzy front end' of new product development are successfully employed by global corporations. This paper describes ...

The Role of University Centre for Continuing Education in the Creation and Implementation of Innovation Management Education

Siekkinen, Raili Tuulikki; Riitahuhta, Asko // 2009
This paper presents the results and findings on an education program in innovation management which development is based on company need. The paper describes the creation process of the education ...

The significance of purchasing behavioural characteristics on sustainable design education of students

Hunt, Clive; Reynolds, Tim James // 2009
More and more businesses appear to be adopting the societal (or sustainable) marketing concept as their business philosophy. This is an attempt to increase their competitiveness and promote their ...

The use of creativity methods for Industrial Design problem solving,

Moghaddam, Nasrin; Ajdari, Alireza // 2009
In this paper several approaches of creativity would be reviewed and then evaluated. The goal of the paper is to find a range of creativity methods which would be more suitable for designers. Based ...

The Use of Open Briefs in Design Skills Development

Collins, Annick // 2009
To succeed in today's rapidly evolving industry, the designer has to be versatile, explore, discover and implement in the interest of the client. How can the nature of the design industry ...

To learn to feel: developing tactual aesthetic sensitivity in design education

Sonneveld, Marieke H.; Schifferstein, Hendrik N. J. // 2009
Through touch we are in physical contact with the material world, to explore and manipulate that world. Touch is the basis for our understanding of the materiality of the world. In addition, touch is ...

Towards a New Disciplinary Framework for contemporary Design Practice

Dykes, Tommy; Rodgers, Paul Anthony; Smyth, Michael // 2009
This paper argues for a consistent and new design specific disciplinary framework that will provide a better understanding of emergent design practice. Design today is characterised by a blurring of ...

Towards a Set of Principles for Distributed Design Information Storing

Grierson, Hilary; Ion, William J. // 2009
This paper discusses the development of a set of guiding Principles with a Framework to support distributed design information storing (d-DIS), informed by the findings of several studies into the ...

Towards Managing Team-Interfaces: An Exploratory Elicitation of Factors Influencing Communication

Maier, Anja Martina; Eckert, Claudia M.; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
Many researchers and practitioners in industry have identified communication between people as a major determinant of success or failure in (design) projects. At the same time, our empirical ...

Towards slow learning spaces: a manifesto for design education

Boys, Jos // 2009
This paper outlines a series of projects bringing together disabled artists, architects and design students. Through collaborative work and debate, we have begun to develop new approaches and ...

Undergraduate project on conceptual design of a small screw compressor

Machado, Laura; Gowree, Erwin Ricky; Ondoa, Georges; Hashi, Mohamed; Gaind, Roshan; Kovacevic, Ahmed // 2009
The European Global Product Realisation (EGPR) course is an undergraduate project designed to educate students for development of global products in distributed design teams and real life engineering ...

Understanding innovativeness by encapsulating creativity in higher engineering education

Berglund, Anders // 2009
Innovativeness implies willingness of individuals to support new ideas, creativity and experimentation with impact to change traditional practices. From past studies innovativeness has been brought ...

User Centered Design of a Computer Supported Collaborative Work Environment in an Educational Scenario using Multiple Mouse Inputs: A Case Study

Reddy,Vamshi P; Singh,Kshitiz; Yammiyavar,Pradeep // 2009
Collaborative Education is a concept which is very uncommon to Indian School Education and not much content is developed in order for it to be implemented in classrooms. In this paper we present a ...

Using 3-D Models to Train Engineering Designers

Field, Bruce William; Burvill, Colin A; Alirezaee, Tayebeh // 2009
During a study of the learning capabilities of injection machine operators, it was found that many had limited spatial skills. Previous studies with naïve engineering designers had found that those ...

Videocasts in engineering and design education

Covill, Derek Graham; Katz, Tim; Gill, Deshinder Singh; Morris, Richard // 2009
The Engineering and Product Design Education conference in Barcelona 2008 highlighted the wide variety of academics, teachers and practitioners using video in their teaching. This paper gives an ...

VIS-able: a visual research gallery to provide inspiration for beautiful (and therefore usable) objects

Grundy, Catherine Anne; Blake, Andrew // 2009
This paper describes an important stage in the development of an on-line Visual Research Gallery, known as VIS-able. The web site is intended to inspire creative solutions across a range of design ...

We Need a Universal Design Project Outcome Performance Measurement Metric: A Discussion Based on Empirical Research

Skogstad, Philipp; Steinert, Martin; Gumerlock, Karl; Leifer, Larry // 2009
This paper aims to contribute and channel a discussion on the need for a universal outcome performance measurement for design projects. After introducing the problem verbally, an example situation of ...

Who are the future designers? educational cultures "the path leading to undergraduate study of product design"

Wilgeroth, Paul; Stockton, Glynn M. // 2009
How does someone become a professional product designer? This paper argues that every practicing product designer has made a series of key decisions at key points in their life that have contributed ...

Workshops 2005-2008 for Dutch Building Industry: Collaborative Engineering

Quanjel, Emile; Zeiler, Wim // 2009
In the Dutch Building Industry sub optimal use of knowledge by participant during the design- and engineering phase causes building damage and hinders innovative designs and solutions. In 2005, a ...

(RE)DESIGNING THE DESIGN EDUCATION IN A KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY

Fain, N.; Moes, C. C. M.; van Doorn, E.; Duhovnik, J. // 2008
Several global trends in new product development, such as increased global competition, flux of boundaries between institutions and intensiveness of knowledge in the management of consumers and their ...

A Novel Design Education Approach for Professional Global Product Realization

Fain, Nuša; Moes, Niels; van Doorn, Ellemieke; Duhovnik, Jože // 2008

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