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A PARAMETRIC DESIGN FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL MODELING OF COMPLEX CONSUMER ELECTRONICS PRODUCTS
Seki, Kenichi; Nishimura, Hidekazu; Zhu, Shaopeng; Balmelli, Laurent // 2011
Today's market demand for smaller and more powerful consumer electronic devices poses a major challenge to the rapid design of products. In addition, the ability to perform strategic ...
A PROCESS OF CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING DESIGN FOR NEW PATENTABLE PRODUCTS
Lloveras, Joaquim // 2011
The conceptual design phase is a few-structured phase, and it is especially true for to create a new product that can be patented. In this paper is proposed a procedure to do a conceptual design ...
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 Proposal For an Augmented DSM to Assess Product Sustainability
Rocco, C.; De Napoli, L.; Rizzuti, S. // 2011
The paper proposes an extension of the Design Structure Matrix to support designers in a rough sustainability evaluation of an industrial device in the early stage of its development.
The ...
A PROTOCOL FOR CONNECTIVE COMPLEXITY TRACKING IN THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS
Mathieson, James; Miller, Michael; Summers, Joshua // 2011
The evaluation of design processes is often conducted after the process has been completed or as a case study on a single process. These two approaches each cannot be used to improve an ongoing ...
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 SCALABLE APPROACH FOR THE INTEGRATION OF LARGE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORIES IN THE BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED DESIGN PROCESS
Vandevenne, Dennis; Verhaegen, Paul-Armand; Dewulf, Simon; Duflou, Joost R. // 2011
Many applications of Biologically-Inspired Design (BID) are well-known and research is increasingly focusing on methodologies towards systematic BID. However, currently no ideation tool exists that ...
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 SOUND-BASED PROTOCOL TO STUDY THE EMOTIONS ELICITED BY PRODUCT APPEARANCE
LU, Weihua; PETIOT, Jef // 2011
Emotions influence how a customer interacts with the product. To be able to instill emotional value in product design, the understanding of user emotion and the measure of emotions are interesting ...
A STRUCTURE FOR REPRESENTING PROBLEM FORMULATION IN DESIGN
Dinar, Mahmoud; Shah, Jami J.; Langley, Pat; Hunt, Glen R.; Campana, Ellen // 2011
Much study has been done on the process of design and problem formulation is believed to play a major role in a creative design of high quality. Yet, it has gained less attention. We propose a ...
A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH OF DESIGN THEORIES USING GENERATIVENESS AND ROBUSTNESS
Hatchuel, Armand; Le Masson, Pascal; Reich, Yoram; Weil, Benoit // 2011
In this paper we build a systematic comparison of several formal design theories: General Design Theory, Axiomatic Design, Coupled Design Process, Infused Design and C-K theory. Each theory offers ...
A Technology Selection Process for the Optimal Capture of Design Information
McAlpine, Hamish; Cash, Philip; Storton, Alexander; Culley, Steve // 2011
There is currently a lack of good practice guidance and commonly accepted standards for empirical design researchers in terms of (a) the amount of information to capture and (b) the appropriateness ...
A THEORY OF DECOMPOSITION IN SYSTEM ARCHITECTING
Komoto, Hitoshi; Tomiyama, Tetsuo // 2011
The divide-and-conquer principle is a technique to deal with large-scale problems by dividing them into smaller and manageable problems. In engineering design, the principle is often used not just as ...
A Tool for Automated Synthesis and Side-Effects Detection in Sensor Designs
Chakrabarti,Amaresh; Regno,Riccardo; Sarkar,Biplab; V.Srinivasan // 2011
Side-effects in a system are defined as effects which affect the intended working of the system. Unforeseen side effects are often blamed to be the cause of avoidable accidents in the history of ...
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 VALUE-CENTRIC QFD FOR ESTABLISHING REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION
Zhang, Xinwei; Auriol, Guillaume; Monceaux, Anne; Baron, Claude // 2011
Quality function deployment (QFD) is commonly recognized as a tool or methodology for developing customer-focused products. There is, however, no explicit clarification about customer values in QFD. ...
A VISUALIZATION CONCEPT FOR SUPPORTING MODULE LIGHTWEIGHT DESIGN
Gumpinger, Thomas; Jonas, Henry; Plaumann, Benedikt; Krause, Dieter // 2011
In the aviation industry there is a current trend towards modular product design. As usual in aviation design, weight is a crucial factor. Therefore a modular product should not outweigh a former non ...
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 ...
A ‘THEATRIC’ APPROACH TO THE TEACHING OF DESIGN
Matthews, Jason; Medland, Anthony // 2011
Design teaching is complicated due to its context specific nature. The teaching of it as an academic subject focuses on the core technologies of embodiment, detailing and manufacture. In order to put ...
ABSTRACT PROTOTYPING IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: A REVIEW OF APPROACHES
Du Bois, Els; Horvath, Imre // 2011
Abstract prototyping (AP) is a pre-implementation testing approach in software engineering, based on low-fidelity prototypes. It supports demonstration and evolution of software concepts at an early ...
ACCEPTING AMBIGUITY OF ENGINEERING FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTIONS
Vermaas, Pieter // 2011
In this paper I consider four approaches to the ambiguity of engineering functional descriptions, and explore arguments for accepting this ambiguity. The first and second approach aim at resolving ...
ACQUISITION OF DESIGN-RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE WITHIN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHEET-BULK METAL FORMING
Röhner, Sebastian; Breitsprecher, Thilo; Wartzack, Sandro // 2011
The increasing requirements on technical products represent a growing challenge for the manufacturing engineering. This challenge will be met by the development of a new manufacturing technology ...
ACTUATION PRINCIPLE SELECTION – AN EXAMPLE FOR TRADE-OFF ASSESSMENT BY CPM-APPROACH
Erbe, Torsten; Weber, Christian; Paetzold, Kristin // 2011
The generation of motion is a task of many technical systems. Customized drive systems formulate the challenge of the selection of a suitable actuator during the development of drive systems. Common ...
ADAPTING AEROSPACE DESIGN RATIONALE MAPPING TO CIVIL ENGINEERING: A PRELIMINARY STUDY
Eng, Nathan Lee; Marfisi, Emanuele; Aurisicchio, Marco // 2011
A pilot study of aerospace design rationale capture methods in civil engineering was performed to improve support for information management and systems thinking. Deploying software-based methods in ...
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