Kettunen, Ilkka // 2014
This paper provides an autoethnographic account of my personal journey through the early phases of a design process in a product development project that took place in an SME company. I reflect on my ...
Ellmers, Grant; Bennett, Sue; Brown, Ian // 2014
The application of project-based and studio-based learning in design education is widespread. For this multiple-project curriculum to be effective, it is important students transfer their learning ...
Seiler, Katrin; Tremmel, Stephan; Wartzack, Sandro // 2014
Friction can be reduced by avoiding friction, by using frictionless designs or by optimizing the friction involving contacts. In rolling bearings, which run under extreme conditions, ...
De Lessio, Mark P. // 2014
Across many design disciplines, much research has been and continues to be conducted in the area of developing advanced methodologiesto enhance the overall design process. Much of this research has ...
Lavayssiere ,P.; Blanco, E.; Le Dain ,M.-A.; Ch // 2014
In order to innovate better and faster, enterprises can work on their product development process (PDP). The literature provides several PDPs, but also recommend to adapt these processes to the ...
Tovey, Michael John; Osmond, Jane // 2014
There is a long tradition of teaching design through design practice in universities and colleges. The end goal for graduates is to achieve a level of capability to function as designers in the ...
Stjepandic, J.; Rulhoff ,S.; Verhagen ,W.J.C.; Liese,H.; Bermell-Garcia, P. // 2014
The handling of knowledge represents the key to competitiveness, with company-specific product and process knowledge. Knowledge-based engineering facilitates new product development by automating ...
Sung, Wooyoung; Giard, Jacques // 2014
Design research has become important in both design education and design practice. For design education, its role is in the identification of problems as well as the understanding of user behavior; ...
Akinluyi, E.A.; Ison, K.; Clarkson ,P.J. // 2014
The engineering design process outputs plans for a product, to be sold to the customer. However, the ultimate objective is the desired impact that the product delivers throughout its life, after this ...
Mar, Alejandra // 2014
Product Design Engineering at Universidad EAFIT offers a special undergraduate course that allows students to have their curriculum in a flexible way. The main goal is to design home decor products ...
Concei // 2014
This paper presents the prototyping process for developing a resource material in planning and performing participatory workspace design processes. This material brings up design dialogues into focus ...
Anzengruber, K.; Hehenberger, P.; Boschert, S.; Rosen, R.; Zeman, K. // 2014
Nowadays, mechatronics is included in many technical products and, furthermore, mechatronic products are necessary to fulfil a manifold of needs, wishes and requirements of customers (e.g. precision, ...
Isa, Siti S.; Liem, Andre // 2014
In design education, detailing and materialisation activities are often underemphasised in a structured design process. Educators tend to teach students to focus on defining problems, developing ...
Seemann, Ralf; Krause, Dieter // 2014
The prediction of the mechanical properties of structural elements using advanced finite element analysis is an important part of the product development process of light weight structures. ...
Humphries-Smith, Tania; Blount, Gordon; Powell, John // 2014
This paper considers how and to what extent product design ethics is understood by professionals in design practice and undergraduate students of product and engineering design and how, if at all, ...
Gultekin-Atasoy, Pelin; Lu, Yuan; Bekker, Tilde; Eggen, Berry; Brombacher, Aarnout // 2014
Setting up collaboration is getting increasingly important in design practice. It is also valuable to involve the stakeholders early in the design process for gathering deeper insights and arriving ...
Parraguez, P.; Eppinger ,S.D.; Maier ,A.M. // 2014
This paper investigates how to identify potential misalignments between actual and expected information flow patterns among activities at each design stage. We develop a dynamic network model that ...
Thalen, Jos; van der Voort, Mascha; Garde, Julia // 2014
The interdisciplinary nature of design requires designers to be able to recognise potentially interesting emerging design techniques from neighbouring disciplines, such as marketing, management or ...
Hong, Youngbok; Ganci, Aaron // 2014
Connectivity in the contemporary networked society has required designers to shift their disciplinary focus from individual products to the entirety of human experience. The field of Experience ...
Gundersen, Gunnar // 2014
This paper contributes to a pedagogical approach to teaching design related to social development by presenting and discussing the technical-solution and design evolution of a simple, everyday ...
Siti Salwa, Isa; Andre Liem, Bj // 2014
With respect to structured design processes, physical models are developed with the intention to give additional insight to the analytical, explorative, creative, detailing and materialisation design ...
Frost, Katherine; Linda, Sara; Kovacevic, Ahmed; Rane, Sham // 2014
EGPR (European Global Product Realisation) is an undergraduate project, which involves collaboration between 5 European universities and an industrial partner. The aim of the course is to develop ...
Breitsprecher, T.; Codescu, M.; Jucovschi, C.; Kohlhase, M.; Schröder, L.; Wartzack, S. // 2014
The engineering design process follows a series of standardized stages of development, which have many aspects in common with software engineering. Among these stages, the principle solution can be ...
Krüger, Daniel; Wartzack, Sandro // 2014
The perceived value of many products is determined essentially by how well their properties harmonize with the individual abilities and needs of the people who use them. ...