Synthesis aided design: The biological design-build-test engineering paradigm?

Comparative analysis of design/build and design/bid/build project delivery systems in Lebanon

Design/bid/build and design/build are two principal project delivery systems used worldwide. The performance of each project may differ with the type of procurement system used. This study has two aims: firstly, to assess and compare the performance of design/bid/build and design/build projects in Lebanon; secondly, to compare the results with the performance of equivalent systems in the Far Ea...

Extending the Optimization Paradigm in Engineering Design

Formal design optimization involves application of mathematical optimization techniques to models derived from engineering science, often presented as computer simulations. Industry use of design optimization tools is now widespread and sophisticated. As the size and complexity of design problems addressed with these formal methods increase, so do the challenges for successful implementations. ...

Axiomatic Design and the Concurrent Engineering Paradigm

Concurrent Engineering (CE) is an organisational arrangement that systematically employs a set of functional disciplines to integrate and simultaneously perform all the tasks that yields to a product satisfying a known list of customer needs. Its chief goals are to shorten the products’ time to market, increase their quality and performance, and reduce their overall life cycle costs, from conce...

Computer-aided Clothing Thermal Functional Engineering Design

Racing car design using knowledge aided engineering

CAD systems and related technologies evolution has improved the development of software for automatic configuration of mechanical systems. This happened with the introduction of KAE systems that enable computer to support the designer during the decision making process. This paper presents a knowledge-based application that allows the designer to automatically compute and evaluate mass properti...