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Assessing Design Methods for Functional Representation and Concept Generation: Strategies and Preliminary Results
Tate, Derrick; Agarwal, Aditya; Zhang, Linjing // 2009
To support collaborative conceptual design, methods for functional representation and concept generation are essential. Many methods have been proposed following various design theories, but little ...
Assessing Impact Analysis Practice to Improve Change Management Capability
Kilpinen, M. S. ; Eckert, C. M.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2009
Impact analysis (IA) methods and tools support designers in determining the consequences of design changes. As such, the risk of unanticipated propagation of changes, in which an initiating ...
Assessing the Structural Crashworthiness of a Three-Wheeler Passenger Vehicle
Srikanth.K. M ; Prakash, V Raghu // 2009
Over the last few decades, three wheelers, popularly termed as auto rickshaws, are gaining popularity in the commuting world due to the driving conditions prevailing all over the world. With the traf ...
Assessment of theses - a comparison of current approaches practiced in engineering education
Watty, Robert; Kreimeyer, Matthias // 2009
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 ...
Assessment of User Needs for an Electric-Powered Personal Transportation Unit in Urban Environment
Eurich, Markus; Jamali, Nadia; Löf/er, Karin // 2009
This paper presents the results of a usage study of an electric-powered personal transportation unit in urban environment. The study is based on a qualitative and quantitative data analysis, which is ...
Automated Analysis of Product Disassembly to Determine Environmental Impact
Agu, David Ikechukwu; Campbell, Matthew Ira // 2009
Manufacturers are increasingly being held responsible for the fate of their products during the end-of-life phase. In this research, a product's end-of-life environmental impact is calculated as ...
Basic sculpturing methods as innovatory incentives in the development of aesthetic form concepts.
Thomsen, Bente Dahl // 2009
Many project teams grapple for a long time with developing ideas to the form concept because of a lack of methods to solve the many form problems they face in sketching. They also have difficulty in ...
Beyond Cost: Product Complexity and the Global Product Development Location Advantage
Makumbe, Pedzi; Seering, Warren; Rebentisch, Eric // 2009
Discussions of location advantages in global product development are largely based on self-reported surveys, and often agnostic to product characteristics. We build on this previous work by ...
Beyond User-Centered Design
Lloveras, Joaquim // 2009
The material evolution in the universe and the biological evolution in the Earth to given rise to the humanity that now can take in its hands a continuation of the evolution by means of artificial ...
Biomimetics as a Design Methodology - Possibilities and Challenges
Lenau, Torben A. // 2009
Biomimetics ? or bionik as it is called in parts of Europe ? offer a number of promising opportunities and challenges for the designer. The paper investigates how biomimetics as a design methodology ...
Bridging TDM and PDM Solutions Using JT in PLM Architectures
Bitzer,Michael; Eigner,Martin; Gerhardt,Florian // 2009
In the scope of ever growing complexity amongst engineering networks and products, application of Product-Lifecycle-Management (PLM) concepts has become an essential element in strategic enterprise ...
CAD Teams Performance Empowerment and Evaluation by Using E-Learning Tools
Bodein, Yannick; Rose, Bertrand; Caillaud, Emmanuel // 2009
3D CAD systems are used in practical product design to realize simultaneous engineering and also to improve productivity. It is today acknowledged that CAD tools can highly increase design ...
cADP Reloaded - New Experiences and Validation Approaches in Interdisciplinary Student Project Collaboration
Richter, Marc; Geis, Christian; König, Christina; Rambo, Jürgen // 2009
This paper presents the "collaborative Advanced Design Project" (cADP) and its use as an education and research environment for the development and validation of new work equipment (defined ...
Cameraphones as New Design Tools
Farrugia, Philip; Borg, Jonathan // 2009
It is well known that at the early design stage, designers still prefer the fluidity of traditional sketching as means to express their form concepts, instead of the rigid, user-interface of ...
Can we Engineer Better Process Models?
Kannengiesser, Udo // 2009
This paper proposes an engineering design view of process modelling that helps address the high complexity and low flexibility of many process models. In this view, processes are understood as ...
Capacity for sustainability: the changing contexts of design education
O'Rafferty, Simon; Curtis, Hannah; O'Connor, Frank // 2009
The role of design education is evolving due to structural changes in industry and society. These changes include the strategic positioning of design in business, new demographics of ageing, ...
Case study based education in Product Lifecycle Management
Eigner, Martin; Langlotz, Martin; Reinhardt, Peter // 2009
The paper introduces a new concept for the design of case study based courses in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) education using the example of a successfully implemented PLM course module. The ...
Case Study: Application of Team-Based Learning to a Mechanical Engineering Design Course Traditionally Taught in Lecture Format
van der Loos, Hendrik F. Machiel; Ostafichuk, Peter M. // 2009
The teaching of a third-year university course in design elements - e.g., gears, belts, bolts, bearings - has traditionally been taught in lecture format. In response to student feedback from the ...
Cataloguing and Selection of Displacement-amplifying Compliant Mechanisms
Jhawar,Neeraj; Ananthasuresh,G. K. // 2009
Selection from among competing alternatives is pursued in this work for a rapidly growing class of compliant mechanisms. By using the framework of storage and retrieval of a database, we present a ...
Challenges and Future Fields of Research for Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes (Members only )
Heisig, Peter; Clarkson, John; Hemphälä, Jens; Wadell, Carl; Bergendahl, Margareta Norell; Roelofsen, Julia; Kreimeyer, Matthias; Lindemann, Udo // 2009
The importance of innovative processes in design and engineering for business success is increasingly recognised in today’s competitive environment. Academia and management need to gain a more ...
Change Propagation Modelling to Support the Selection of Solutions in Incremental Change
Koh,C. Y.Edwin; Keller, Rene; Eckert,M.Claudia; Clarkson P. John // 2009
It is common for companies to generate new products through modi cation of existing ones. This is known as incremental change. During this process, designers are usually faced with more than one ...
Checklists as Tools for Reflective Practice for Designers
Geis, Christian; Birkhofer, Herbert // 2009
Methodical designing nowadays is an important topic when developing competitive and successful products. But to work methodically means to overcome many obstacles and problems. With reflective ...
Classification of knowledge and contents for a user specific transfer of product development knowledge
Weber, Harald; Birkhofer, Herbert // 2009
The optimal transfer of product development knowledge varies with the user's expertise and his or her situation. This is why advanced navigation, searching and filtering possibilities are ...
Co-Evolution of Products & Communities in Mass Collaborative Product Development: a Computational Exploration
Panchal, Jitesh // 2009
Mass collaborative product development (MCPD) refers to a paradigm where large numbers of people collaborate in the form of communities to develop products and services. The evolution of products ...
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