CONCEPTUALIZE–DESIGN ENHANCEMENT OF SYSTEMATIC DESIGN ENGINEERING METHOD

A systematic approach to conceptual engineering design

The issue in conceptual design theory is to understand the processes which lead to innovation and to create tools which generate step changes in function in an orderly and repetitious manner. Detailed form-function synthesis methods which generally follow the conceptual phase of the design process require input specifications. An extension of function logic is proposed as a means to systematica...

Probabilistic design: The future of rock engineering

A brief background to the development of the rock engineering design process is given, showing that since the development of the science of mathematics, deterministic methods have been used to perform various calculations. The variability of rock properties and support characteristics have always been known. However, they were not explicitly used in design but compensated for by the use of a sa...

Engineering Bacteria to Search for Specific Concentrations of Molecules by a Systematic Synthetic Biology Design Method

Bacteria navigate environments full of various chemicals to seek favorable places for survival by controlling the flagella's rotation using a complicated signal transduction pathway. By influencing the pathway, bacteria can be engineered to search for specific molecules, which has great potential for application to biomedicine and bioremediation. In this study, genetic circuits were constructed...

Eco-innovative design method for process engineering

Software Specification & Design Methods and Method Engineering

This article summarizes the state of the art in software speci cation & design methods, which assist developers in constructing the models of the problem domain and of the system and in writing requirements and design speci cations. The typical methods such as structured methods and object-oriented methods are summarized. The new discipline called \Method Engineering", engineering for construct...