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RAISING OUR GAME: CREATING NEW LEARNING EXPERIENCES WITH RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS
Loy (1), Jennifer; Reay (2), Stephen; White (2), David // 2015
Within the University sector, there has been concern expressed in recent years over the accreditation
of alternative higher education providers to deliver degree programs. This presupposes that the ...
READING ASSISTANT: HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE WITH SYSTEMATIC DESIGN
Hamarsheh, Khalid // 2015
‘Product Design, Development and Marketing’ is one of the key courses in the Engineering Management Program at UAE University. The course was aimed at enabling the students to fully comprehend the ...
REAL-TIME PRODUCT RECOVERY DECISION MAKING ALGORITHM FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Kanchanasri, Passaporn; Moon, Seung Ki; Ng, Gary Ka Lai // 2015
Supporting long term benefits towards our society, a product recovery becomes a good alternative for handling End-of-Life (EOL) products. Instead of disposing all used products and producing waste, ...
RECONCEPTUALIZING DESIGN THINKING AND EQUIPPING DESIGNERS FOR THE NEXT WAVE OF DIGITAL INNOVATION
Kleinsmann, Maaike; Snelders, Dirk // 2015
With the advent of a third wave of digitization designers are facing new challenges to create products and services. We believe that the far-reaching user involvement and the flexible functionalities ...
REDEFINING PRODUCT FAMILY DESIGN FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Lei, Ningrong; Moon, Seung Ki; Rosen, David W. // 2015
The paper highlights the opportunities for Additive Manufacturing (AM) based product family design to operate in a much broader design space that is free from constraints which arise in traditional ...
REGGIO EMILIA ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Vignoli, Matteo; D'Onghia, Francesco // 2015
How do we prepare future engineers to face 21th century challenges?This paper confronts the issue of what it really means to be an engineer and how to design a learning experience that influence the ...
Reifegradmodellbasierte Entwicklung von Strukturbauteilen (Members only )
Gembarski, Paul Christoph; Steber, Gerhard; Lachmayer, Roland // 2015
The role of computer-aided design and simulation tools for the development
of structural components and carrying structures is generally accepted.
Within this article, a process is presented, in ...
REMEMBER TO REMEMBER: A FEASIBILITY STUDY ADAPTING WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY TO THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE AGED 65 AND OLDER WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT (MCI) AND ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA
Maier, Anja M; Özkil, Ali Gürcan; Bang, Maria M; Forchhammer, Birgitte H // 2015
Designing for a healthy life includes addressing the needs of an ageing population. The number of people aged 65 and older with mild cognitive impairment and dementia is rising. Whilst there is ...
Requirement for Real-Time Water Emulsion Fuel Supply System (RTES) Concept Design (Members only )
Aiyshah binti Mazlan, Nurul; Abd Kadir, Hasannuddin; Mohamad, Zahari; Jazair Yahya, Wira // 2015
Nowadays, demand for more efficient energy increased due to the green technology as one of the prominent research areas. In order to improve the exhaust emission from the diesel engine, researchers ...
REQUIREMENTS CHECKLISTS: BENCHMARKING THE COMPREHENSIVENESS OF THE DESIGN SPECIFICATION
Becattini, Niccolo; Cascini, Gaetano; Rotini, Federico // 2015
It is commonly recognized that the definition of product requirements is an essential step of any design process. Many techniques have been proposed for building a suitable design specification, i.e. ...
REROUTING FAILURE FLOWS USING LOGIC BLOCKS IN FUNCTIONAL MODELS FOR IMPROVED SYSTEM ROBUSTNESS: FAILURE FLOW DECISION FUNCTIONS
Short, Adam R.; Van Bossuyt, Douglas Lee // 2015
Functional modelling methods used in the early conceptual phases of complex system design allow system designers to better understand and refine system architecture from a functional perspective. A ...
Ressourceneffizientes Produktdesign durch PLM-integrierte Generierung und Auswahl von Produktvarianten (Members only )
Buchert, Tom; Kim, Marcus; Graf, Roberta; Ko, Nathanael; Lindow, Kai; Stark, Rainer // 2015
The development of sustainable and resource-efficient products requires
new forms of support which provides design engineers with transparency on
the results of their decisions and at the same time ...
RESULT VISUALIZATION AND DOCUMENTATION OF TOLERANCE SIMULATIONS OF MECHANISMS
Walter, Michael Simon Josef; Pribek, Michael; Spruegel, Tobias Constantin; Wartzack, Sandro // 2015
Imprecise manufacturing processes lead to products which differ in their dimensions and shape. As a consequence, the product developer has to specify appropriate tolerances to limit these deviations ...
RETHINKING OPERATING MODELS FOR INTANGIBLE SERVICES : FROM A MECHANISTIC STRUCTURE TO A SUSTAINABLE MODEL
Minzoni, Angela; Mounoud, Eleonore // 2015
This paper presents a co-design process in which operations managers and researchers engage in designing within the aim of radically innovate the operations management thinking focusing on the ...
REVIEWING PEER REVIEW, AN EYE TRACKING EXPERIMENT OF REVIEW BEHAVIOUR
Boa, Duncan R; Hicks, Ben // 2015
The quality of peer reviews is a longstanding issue within the Design Society with concerns over the consistency and transparency of reviews raised frequently. Previous research has sought to qualify ...
RISK AND INNOVATION BALANCE IN CROWDFUNDING NEW PRODUCTS
Song, Chaoyang; Luo, Jianxi; Hoelttae-Otto, Katja; Seering, Warren; Otto, Kevin // 2015
Many have considered that innovation through new and small companies is a vital driver for sustainable economic growth. Recent growth in Web 2.0 demands small companies to further incorporate risk ...
Role of Immersive Virtual Reality in Fostering Creativity Among Architecture Students
Pandey, M.; Luthra, V.; Yammiyavar, P. G.; Anita, P.Y. // 2015
Spatial reasoning is the a fundamental skill for in the profession of architecture. Space visualisation and it’s mental manipulation is required to conceptualise a design. An architect with better ...
RP OR NOT RP: THAT IS THE CO-CREATION QUESTION
Koohgilani, Mehran; Powell, John; Underwood, Gary // 2015
The growth of rapid prototyping (RP) appears to show no sign of slowing. Within industry, recent advances in material development have driven the increased adoption of RP technologies for ...
RULES AND COMPLEX THINKING IN DESIGN EDUCATION
Gulden, Tore; Sjřvoll, Vibeke // 2015
This article seeks to reformulate the notion of basics as rules within the context of design education. The typical design education curriculum introduces design methods as a pedagogical approach. ...
SAFETY OF INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTS PERSPECTIVES IN THE CONTEXT OF CURRENT PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES
Roth, Michael; Gehrlicher, Steffi; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
The safety of products is one essential feature on the way to approval. Methods of safety analysis are applied to ensure this. Facing growing demand for individual products and stricter regulations, ...
SAND CASTING ON THE BEACH - INTRODUCING TRADITIONAL MAKING SKILLS, MATERIALS AND PROCESS THROUGH PLAY AND EXPERIMENTATION
Stoltenberg, Einar; Firth, Richard // 2015
Within the higher education (HE) product design field, many researchers stress the importance for students to recognise and value the relationship between practical 3D object-making experience, and ...
SCIENCE INFORMED DESIGN: INVOLVING THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES
McCardle, John R // 2015
Eminent designers and engineers have historically been cited as inspirational polymaths with the ability to utilize a wide range of information to form a rational idea and create a concept. If ...
SCULPTURAL CUBISM IN PRODUCT DESIGN: USING DESIGN HISTORY AS A CREATIVE TOOL
Frimpong Acheampong, Augustine; Berg, Arild // 2015
In Jan Michl's "Taking down the Bauhaus Wall: Towards living design history as a tool for better
design", he explains how the history of design can become a tool for future design practices. ...
Service Classification to Support Planning Product-Service Systems (Members only )
Schmidt, Danilo Marcello; Jaugstetter, Matthias; Malaschewski, Oliver; Mörtl, Markus // 2015
As Product-Service Systems (PSS) are capable to provide more specialized offers to customers, an appropriate design of PSS influences aspects of customer acceptance. The differentiation within ...
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