Learn to Design by Mapping Information Among Several Methods

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Rizzuti
Keyword(s):  
Data Structure ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Matrix Formulation ◽  
Project Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Mapping Information

The paper is based on the experience matured in ten years of teaching “Product Design and Development” at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Calabria (Italy). This paper is focused on the consideration that many of the methods employed during product design activity share a matrix formulation as a means of collecting and managing project data and that students must be familiarized with the use of this kind of data structure in a very different way from their previous experiences, because project management can be pursued by mapping information from one method to another. Students are in fact guided to organize data related to the design on which they are involved in order to guarantee that the information can be mapped from one formulation to another, meaning that they have the whole design process under control. Attention will be paid to the pedagogic aspects and problems associated with the way how information can be collected and ranked and how a decision can be made.

Engineering Centres as Targets for Industrial Innovation

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Burvill ◽  
A. E. Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Industrial Projects ◽  
Short Horizon ◽  
The University ◽  
Engineering Centre

The Engineering Design Group (EDG) at the University of Melbourne has forged an ongoing teaching, research, design and development liaison programme with industrial partners, in particular with small and medium-sized enterprises. A government-sponsored centre, the Advanced Engineering Centre for Manufacturing has provided the necessary financial and human resources to facilitate this collaborative work. The EDG collaborative programme incorporates a staged liaison model: short-horizon senior undergraduate industrial projects and medium-horizon product design and development opportunities that can include training for industry clients, leading to long-horizon collaborative projects that attempt to enhance the technologies used in Australian industry.

Emotional Design of Modern Products Reflect

2013 ◽  
Vol 712-715 ◽  
pp. 2925-2928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Qing Yang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Protection Efficiency ◽  
Transfer Activity ◽  
Process Use ◽  
National Sentiment

The pursuit of modern product design is health, environmental protection, efficiency, comfortable.In a sense, product design is a kind of emotional design.Research on modern product design emotional transfer activity at the same time, design activity is also a kind of emotional.Emotional design in modern product design contains a lot of content, research on the national sentiment of the large, respect for nature's emotional expression, specific to the study of personal feelings, taste; research on emotional or design process, use process, this study has shown for a country, a nation, a specific group of people, a respect for individuality, humanization design. This article research the modern design from the national emotion, emotion, emotional expression, on several natural appeal and emotional .

scholarly journals ENGG 113 COMMUNICATIONS AND DESIGN: A FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING COURSE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF REGINA

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Time Management ◽  
First Year ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
Credit Hours ◽  
Web Document ◽  
Underlying Principle ◽  
Single Standard ◽  
Short Courses ◽  
The University

Circa 1990 the Engineering curriculum at the University of Regina was completely overhauled. Previous to this, there were small courses in communication and design. The short courses were combined into a single standard length course of 3 credit hours, ENGG 113, Communications and Design. The underlying principle was that communication was indeed a design process. An essay must be designed, a presentation must be designed and even a sentence must be created using the fundamentals of the design process. The course incorporates unorthodox practices but it covers a variety of topics that support the design process. For example, time management is not only covered, it is practiced in class by having a student moderate each class. The class is broken into four 17 minute periods, each starting with students doing random self introductions, and ending with student summaries. Student design groups do a presentation during one of these modules. The entire class is under the control of the moderator. The lab is broken into three sections, a writing activity, a computer activity and a design activity. A design is done, and is presented at the end of the course as a WEB document. This paper describes the topics, the objectives and the methodology of the course and gives an analysis as to what works and what remains lacking.

Participant Observations and Recommendations From an Integrated Design Project in Architecture and Engineering

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Hartung ◽  
Jay McCormack ◽  
Cam Stefanic ◽  
Jason Cyr ◽  
Keith Bickford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Available Bandwidth ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Team Culture ◽  
The University

An interdisciplinary design project was conducted with students in the mechanical engineering and architecture departments at the University of Idaho. In order to offer the multidisciplinary design experience within the available bandwidth of instructors, the project was structured around and integrated into existing courses and resources. Past interdisciplinary product design courses have shown the value of interdisciplinary work in the professional development of students in addition to being effective at developing innovative new products. Descriptions of these courses provide insights on conducting them with regards to team structure, course structure, design process, and other topics. This paper summarizes observations reported from students and instructors involved in this project. Observations highlight challenges in project management, examples of cultural differences between disciplines, approaches to design, specifics of project ownership, and perceptions of level of detail in work products. Based on those observations, recommendations are made to develop and deploy a design process that facilitates the strengths of both disciplines and enables mentor guided project management. In addition, these recommendations will help establish a team culture and work setting that does not violate the culture of either discipline while enabling joint decision making, and address directly the impacts of a domain biased product as the design project focus.

scholarly journals COGNITION AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY DESIGN: AN EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING DESIGN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyona Sharunova ◽  
Mehwish Butt ◽  
Suzanne Kresta ◽  
Jason Carey ◽  
Loren Wyard-Scott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Efficient Solutions ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Engineering Product ◽  
Common Basis ◽  
Engineering Design Process ◽  
Interdisciplinary Problems

 Abstract - Contemporary engineering product design and development no longer adheres to the boundaries of a single discipline and has become tightly integrated, often relying on interaction of multiple disciplines for completion of integrated product design projects. In order to design these products, design and development practice has transcended the discipline boundaries to become a transdisciplinary engineering design process. A collaboration of specialists from different engineering disciplines is required to develop efficient solutions to interdisciplinary problems of product design. Despite this shift from mono-disciplinary to transdisciplinary, the engineering design curriculum remains focused on teaching discipline specific design practice through skill based subject specific pedagogy with a limited emphasis on the importance of design process and transdisciplinarity in the design process. As a result, new graduates starting in design and development organizations face a difficulty finding a common basis of understanding of disciplines’ interactions and must go through a process of often implicit ‘onboarding’ to understand the transdisciplinary engineering design process. This can be avoided by developing and adapting undergraduate design process education in line with industrial demands. This paper proposes a theoretical framework based on empirical engineering design research in industry, educational psychology and teaching approaches such as Bloom’s Taxonomy and Kolb’s Model of Experiential Learning for developing the core elements of a transdisciplinary engineering design process curriculum.

scholarly journals DESIGN INNOVATION PROCESS RESPONDS TO UNMET NEEDS CREATED BY COVID-19

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Brown ◽  
Lisa Del Torto ◽  
Natalie Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Recent Case Study

This article presents a recent case study of the development and bringing to market of a new product through the design process of the author, Dan Brown, Ph.D. (Brown Sr.), a product design practitioner and academic with over 40 years of innovation experience, and his son Brown Jr., a business entrepreneur. This case explores how they collaborated as an entrepreneurial team to design and commercialize a novel PPE face shield using Brown Sr.’s Differentiation by Design research process. The article focuses on how design creates value and competitive advantage in markets by examining a recent case study of successful new product development arising from the COVID-19 pandemic -- providing adequate personal protective equipment (PPE).When seeking advantage in the practice of innovation, there is a creative quest that product design and development practitioners must address through their design process. Truly innovative and competitive new products are rare, as their design efforts often fall short of the original design aims. Brown Sr.’s past research has revealed that this creative quest often appears at the intersection of the existing knowledge boundaries of the user as well as the many less prominent stakeholders in the new product experience.Often framed as unmet stakeholder needs, this knowledge boundary appears when existing practice knowledge proves inadequate, but the development objective remains. These knowledge gap opportunities appear through detailed research of the problem, existing solution benchmarks, and stakeholders. They can also appear when the designer-researcher looks for them specifically. Finding these knowledge gaps and creatively conceiving advantaged solutions into competitively advantaged spaces or white spaces is the goal of this design process.This Case shares successful marketplace outcomes with Brown Sr.’s past research cases resulting from their design and development approaches. With a combined quantitative and qualitative research focus, this autobiographical case study builds on the insights available to the researcher. Autobiographic cases provide unique access to rich quantitative evidence of the design narrative and marketing histories gained from an insider’s view of industry practice.Competitive advantage and its role in innovation in the real-world laboratory of the marketplace provide the context for researching the process of this design-focused strategy. The process starts with reframing the fundamental problem, which was, in this case, how to rapidly produce millions of face shields in a matter of months; the Browns teamed up to create a viable and scalable shield solution for the masses.

Identifying Cultural Barriers to Design Knowledge Flow in Chinese SMEs

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhinan Zhang ◽  
Gang Liu ◽  
Jun Liang ◽  
Youbai Xie
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Knowledge Flow ◽  
Thick Wall ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Product Design Process

In Chinese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), culture is one of the barriers which often plays an important role in the effective knowledge flow in their product design and development process. Investigations to designers from SMEs in China help us recognize several cultural barriers to this knowledge flow in the process of product design and development. This paper aims to identify those cultural barriers to knowledge flow in the design process of SMEs. Interviews with and questionnaires to designers from different SMEs were conducted. Empirical studies show that designers hesitate to share their knowledge; lack of trust and the thick wall among functional departments are major barriers influencing effective knowledge flows in the product design process. In addition, ongoing research on overcoming the identified cultural barriers to knowledge flow is also discussed briefly.

scholarly journals A new laboratory for the students of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sherbrooke to support the characterization and the validation of their prototypes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Nadeau ◽  
Alain Desrochers ◽  
João Pedro Trovão
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Unique Feature ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Critical Parameters ◽  
Student Projects ◽  
The University ◽  
Design Experience

In order to help the students of the Faculty of Engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke within the field of product design in engineering, the Laboratory for the Characterization and the Validation of Prototypes (LCVP) has been created. The facilities feature most of the resources needed to conduct experiments toward the estimation and measurement of critical parameters and specifications along the design process but also toward the final validation of a product design. To that end the support of a professional researcher is provided to advise the students toward the proper implementation of their test benches. Overall, the LCVP provides state-of-the-art equipment and competent resources to the students from various departments at both undergraduate and graduate levels therefore improving their product design experience, while enhancing their competencies. This is indeed a unique feature of the LCVP, setting it apart from other initiatives targeted at supporting capstone and student projects.

scholarly journals The Challenges in Product Design and Development in Project Management towards IR4.0

2021 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.H. Othman ◽  
◽  
Mohammed Bamasood ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Team Member ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Online Technology ◽  
Project Team Member ◽  
New Models ◽  
Leader Selection ◽  
Potential Customers

This paper provides a review about the challenges in product design and development (PDD) in the context of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0), with a particular focused on the problems that may be encountered by the project management (PM) team in the PDD phase. In recent decades, there has been a large number research, design, and development studies related to IR 4.0, such as synthesizing the applications of Big Data, Internet of things (IoT), Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence. The effect of this revolution in technology is changing rapidly with new models and methods of manufacturing that have been proposed for the new future. The pandemic Covid-19 also accelerates the interest in using all kinds of online technology. However, to adapt and achieve the benefits of this revolution, industry players have to encounter several issues related to the PM, especially during the PDD phase. The management challenges discussed in this study were divided into four categories: the project team member selection, team leader selection, identifying potential customers, and design for the environment. In addition, some of the solutions and recommendation has been described using several examples.

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