Design of International Engineering Design Challenge (IEDC)

International Conference on Engineering Design

Engineering design consists of a variety of thought processes, but most of them can be classified into two types, analysis and synthesis. There is a need to build an advanced CAD system that can support not only analysis but also synthesis. However, traditionally, CAD technologies have paid little attention to synthesis. Our project team, “Modeling of Synthesis”, has focused on the synthesis th...

International Conference on Engineering Design

International Conference on Engineering Design

The plant design process is a set of complex and iterative decisional activities and analysis which involve heterogeneous “actors” with different competencies. The first design results are achieved after time-consuming analysis of thermodynamic and acoustic plant characteristics. Then, the functional solution (the plant layout and the ducts geometry) has to be verified from the structural viewp...

International Conference on Engineering Design

In this article, we introduce three views of product development complexity: a process view, a product view, and an organization view. We are able to learn about the complex social phenomenon of product development by studying the patterns of interaction across the decomposed elements within each view. We also compare the alignment of the interaction patterns, between the product, process, and ...

International Conference on Engineering Design

In this paper, a method for conceptual synthesis in design is proposed. Conceptual synthesis is useful for creative design; however, the possibilities for selecting two different concepts to synthesize may be unlimited. The problem of conceptual synthesis stems from the difficulty in selecting two different concepts that are appropriate for creative design. In this study, the authors attempt to...