DESIGN PROBLEM PERCEPTION IN ENGINEERING DESIGN TEAMS

Time Variation of Design “story Telling” in Engineering Design Teams

Engineering design practice can be viewed as a process of “story telling,” where the “stories” generated explore various aspects of the design process and the designed artefact. This paper focuses on the study of the design process by using computational linguistics to analyze time variant patterns of “story telling” in eight multidisciplinary student design teams at the University of Californi...

t Capturing Design Rationale in Concurrent Engineering Teams

Assurance-driven design in Problem Oriented Engineering∗

The design of assurance cases is hampered by the positand-prove approach to software and systems engineering; it has been observed that, traditionally, a product is produced and then evidence from the development is looked for to build an assurance case. Although post-hoc assured development is possible, it often results in errors being uncovered late—leading to costly redevelopment—or to syste...

Problem Based Learning in Engineering Design

Design has traditionally been an important part of an engineer’s training. The initial Engineering Design course in second year undergraduate engineering degree play an integral part in combining the learned knowledge and promote problem solving proficiency. Engineers Australia (Formerly the Institution of Engineers Australia) outlines, soft skills and social proficiencies as a key competency i...

Creative Problem Solving in Engineering Design

ion level: SIT operators operate on a consistent, content-transcending abstraction level. TRIZ’s techniques operate both on a high, content free, abstraction level and on a content expert-system like level. For example one of TRIZ’ techniques is the following “If you need to separate a mixture of two materials in a powder form, CHAPTER 4: THE SIT METHOD 113 use vibration”. Table 4-2 summarizes ...