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Analysis of students opinion about a creative design experience by means of virtual sincronous teams
Mulet, Elena; Escamilla, Nathalie; Chulvi, Vicente; Garcia-Garcia, Carlos; Felip, Francisco; Galán, Julia // 2013
It is very frequent that in engineering design education students work in teams organizing themselves in face-to-face work meetings as well as by means of online applications to share documents and ...
Are we all designers?
Rodgers, Paul; Hall, Ashley; Winton, Euan; Land, Ellie; Aurisicchio, Marco // 2013
Several design writers have proposed, or at least implied, that ââ¦we are all designersâ¦â through the way we manipulate the environment around us, select the items we wish to own, plan, build, ...
Articulating excellence in the context of design and employability
Trowsdale, Dan; Clark, Becky // 2013
In today's highly competitive graduate marketplace, employability is at the top of the agenda for many academic institutions. At a time when the costs associated with higher education are increasing, ...
Asking why as well and how: strengthening the technical proficiency of new designers
Marsh, Phillipa; Arthur, Leslie // 2013
Significant challenges can be encountered when introducing technology to design students, especially those with limited science and technology backgrounds. Often students display a fear or ...
Benchmarking bio-inspired designs with brainstorming in terms of novelty of design outcomes
Keshwani, Sonal; Lenau, Torben Anker; Kristensen, Saeema Ahmed; Chakrabarti, Amaresh // 2013
With the increasing demand of innovative products in the market, there is a need for effective creativity approaches that will support development of creative design outcomes. Most researchers agree ...
Beyond frames: A formal human-compatible representation of ideas in design using non-genetic ad-hoc and volatile class memberships and corresponding architecture for idea operators
Spitas, Christos // 2013
This paper proposes a formal human-compatible representation of ideas in design using ad-hoc and volatile class memberships and corresponding architecture for idea operators. The proposed theory ...
BRIDEE – BRIDGING DESIGN AND ENTRPRENEURSHIP IN EDUCATION
Baelus, Chris; De Grande, Guido; Jacoby, Alexis // 2013
Design and design thinking is being recognized as a valuable approach in business development. Embedding its principles in the curricula of business schools can provide deeper insights to the various ...
Bridging the discrepancy between reflective practice and systematic form generation approaches
Babapour, Maral; Rahe, Ulrike // 2013
Systematic form development frameworks help the students and designers to broaden their form repertoire. Nevertheless, when they are encouraged in classroom activities, several aspects must be ...
Comparison of design approaches between engineers and industrial designers
Yilmaz, Seda; Daly, Shanna R.; Seifert, Colleen; Gonzalez, Richard // 2013
Design Heuristics are an idea generation tool based on empirical evidence from successful designs. The heuristics serve as cognitive âshortcutsâ that encourage exploration of novel directions ...
Compose or decompose - resource allocation in engineering design projects
Berglund, Anders // 2013
This is a paper that reviews the planning, execution and reflection of the collaborative writing efforts made by students when composing their final design project reports. Past research has ...
Concept of product development simulator for an excavator using a haptic device
Eldirdiry, Omer; Ellman, Asko Uolevi // 2013
The significance of Virtual reality (VR) tools lies on its capability to simulate physical presence. Dealing with 3D model in VR Systems is less expensive, less dangerous and easier to make ...
Conceptual design guide for energy and water consumptions
Lloveras, Joaquim // 2013
The present paper proposes to analyze the consumption of Energy or/and Water (E/W) in the conceptual design (CD) stage of a product, in order to optimize this consumption. The product normally spends ...
Consumer needs on smart artifacts for their dream lives
Kim, Kee-Ok; Kim, Jeong-Hyeon; Oh, Ji Eun; Kim, Kira; Lee, Hye Soo // 2013
The purposes of this study are to search for consumer needs on smart artifacts for their dream lives by the Generative Tools and to give insights for designers of innovative and creative products and ...
Creating the creative
Scully, Amos // 2013
This paper proposes effective techniques of imagination and creativity in education and examines these through classroom implementation. Creativity and imagination are key concepts of design in the ...
Creative camaraderie: promoting a shared design culture for staff and students
Loy, Jennifer; Ancher, Simon // 2013
One of the changes to University education in recent years has been an increase in learning flexibility for students. Modular programming has allowed students to not only customize their learning, ...
Creative design teaching-learning methods: a reflection from the professors
Betancourt, Maria Clara // 2013
The main purpose of this article is to identify teaching and learning strategies that enhance creativity and decision making in Design Education. The experiences of the instructors are used as the ...
Design based entrepreneurship
Møller Nielsen, Louise; Wikström, Anders; Tollestrup, Christian // 2013
Designers are often recognized as natural entrepreneurs, due to their creative skills and competences in the idea-generation and product development processes. A number of studies shows that creative ...
Design for functional requirements enabled by a mechanism and machine element taxonomy
Lee, Szu-Hung; Jiang, Pingfei; Childs, Peter RN // 2013
A process providing an option for engineers and designers to separate the consideration of functional requirements and movement requirements to encourage diverse thinking has been developed and ...
Designing training plans in creativity techniques for companies
Canina, Marita; Anselmi, Laura; Coccioni, Elisabetta // 2013
It is widely recognized that training in creativity techniques enhances the competitiveness and efficiency of companiesâ production processes. As well as contributing to self-fulfilment, ...
Does experience in design and innovation affect the perception of creativity?
Becattini, Niccolò; Borgianni, Yuri; Cascini, Gaetano; Rotini, Federico // 2013
The assessment of creativity arouses increasing interest within design community. The literature witnesses efforts to quantitatively measure creativity, although commonly considered intrinsically ...
Empirical evaluation of flexible design concept generation procedures: A study in emergency services
Cardin, Michel-Alexandre; Ka-Ho Yue, Howard; Jiang, Yixin; Deng, Yinghan; Santhanakrishnan, Deepak // 2013
This paper presents the results of an empirical study of concept generation procedures enabling flexibility in engineering systems design. Evaluation of two educational training procedures (analogies ...
Engineering design education: skin deep or is there a need for body?
Parkinson, Brian; Edwards, Kevin // 2013
An engineering infrastructure through manufacturing industry is an important means of generating income capable of considerably benefiting national economies. From a general perspective engineering ...
Enhancing knowledge acquisition
Crisp, Alan Roy; Dale, James; Marsh, Phillipa // 2013
This paper describes the results of the analysis undertaken against a novel curriculum delivery method designed by the authors to enhance the learning acumen of second year product design students. ...
Enhancing product architecture application in education and industrial practice
Dittmann, Claudia; Hinsch, Malte; Schliefer, Ino; van der Beek, Johannes; Feldhusen, Jörg // 2013
Creating good product architectures is one of the keys to designing configurable and successful products. As defined by Ulrich [1], product architecture is a scheme by which the function of a product ...
Boolean Searches
The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:
- design community
Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. - +design +community
Find rows that contain both words. - +design community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”. - +design -community
Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”. - +design ~community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not. - +design +(>community <decisions)
Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions” - design*
Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”. - "some words"
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.