Sharing Experience in Engineering Design (SEED 2002)

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M. A. C. Evatt, E. K. Brodhurst
John Wiley & Sons, Oct 22, 2002 - Technology & Engineering - 246 pages

Sharing Experience in Engineering Design is based on papers presented at the Engineering and Product Design Education Conference E & PDE 2002.

This volume is vital reading for all those students, practitioners, and professionals operating in the field of product and engineering design and education.

CONTENTS INCLUDE:

  • The integration of design and business issues in the engineering curriculum
  • What are the qualities and competencies required by product design employers? Product design courses lead the way in providing the graduate with the necessary skills to get the top job
  • Designing for a sustainable future – promoting outreach through the use of case studies; Degree design – exploring creativity from the start
  • Assessing creativity – theory and practice
  • Developing an appreciation of the complex interactions between life-cycle analysis and design for manufacture
  • Strategic design and product development – a practical application of business process re engineering in bespoke manufacturing
  • Engineering design modules teaching by projects
  • Product design project teaching, using athletic transport artefacts as the vehicle
  • Sketching – a dying art? Overcoming human barriers to knowledge-based systems in design.
 

Contents

Is industry getting what it needs from our design graduates?
19
Demographics and the implications for lifelong learning in high technology
27
The integration of design and business issues in the engineering curriculum
35
What are the qualities and competencies required by product design employers?
43
Product design courses lead the way in providing the graduate with the necessary
51
Responsivemode support for reflective practice
57
The educational and design output from the engineering doctorate programme
65
Design opportunity or problem solving? Two different approaches to
73
Use of contradiction as frame of representation of problems in design
131
27
147
Developing an appreciation of the complex interactions between lifecycle
149
The value of multidisciplinary projects
167
33
170
Engineering design modules teaching by projects
185
The progression from CADD to product design
205
Design semiotics artyficial intelligent
221

Designing for a sustainable future promoting outreach through the use of case
83
19
103
Put your money where your mouth
115
Overcoming human barriers to knowledgebased systems in design
237
43
245
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M. A. C. Evatt and E. K. Brodhurst are the authors of Sharing Experience in Engineering Design (SEED 2002), published by Wiley.

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