Practical Engineering Problem Solving Model Combined Major Educational Courses

Gears are widely used in many practical engineering to transmit torque. In the process of meshing, contact stress will be produced which causes pitting. Shock becomes more and more serious with the increase of pitting and the probability of failure of meshing gears increases. Contact stress analysis is necessary and important to increase the reliability of gear transmission. In this paper, a fuzzy Hertz approximate optimization method and finite element method are used to deal with a practical engineering problem.

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Towards a Theory on the Role of Ontologies in Software Engineering Problem Solving

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-540-31984-9_16 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 205-219

Author(s):

José M. Cañete ◽

Francisco J. Galán

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Software Engineering ◽

Engineering Problem ◽

Engineering Problem Solving

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Ill-Defined Engineering Problem Solving Empirical Study

Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Design Research and Education (ICADRE14) ◽

10.3850/978-981-09-1348-9_024 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Yanliuxing Yana ◽

Pingfei Jiang ◽

Amanda Squires ◽

Peter R N Childs

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Engineering Problem ◽

Engineering Problem Solving

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Creativity in Multi Objective Problem Solving

Volume 5: Education and Globalization; General Topics ◽

10.1115/imece2012-89145 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Mohamed E. M. El-Sayed ◽

Jacqueline A. J. El-Sayed

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Modeling And Simulation ◽

Design Research ◽

Engineering Problem ◽

Research Projects ◽

Multi Objective ◽

Conflicting Objectives ◽

Research Goal ◽

Engineering Problem Solving

Problem solving is one of the main activities in achieving design and research goal. While problem solving in general is an activity aiming at transforming unacceptable state of reality to acceptable state of reality, problem solving in engineering is usually a means for tackling other activities such as design and research. By breaking down design and research into a set of engineering problem solving activities, the goals of complicated design and research projects can be achieved. For this reason, the transitions from design or research to problem solving in some cases are unidentifiable. The identification of the problem solving activity goals and the transition between the three activities, however, are essentials for creativity and achieving the desired objectives especially when dealing with conflicting objectives and constraints. In this paper, design, research, and problem solving are distinguished as realization activities performed in different reality domains with different beginning and ending states. These three activities use modeling and simulation as basic elements of mapping between realities to perform analysis and integration. While analysis and simulation are mainly the analytical actions, modeling and integration are mainly the creative actions. With these distinctions, the identification of problem solving activity goals, and transitions between activities, can be easily realized. Also, creativity and dealing with conflicting objectives can be greatly facilitated. To demonstrate these concepts and their implications some illustrative examples are discussed.

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