Design fixation is a common problem in engineering. In two experiments, we implement two educational interventions, prototyping and critical feedback, to help reduce design fixation, which is defined as adherence to one's own design. We found that constant prototyping across the design process reduced fixation in the final product. Surprisingly, we also found that not receiving feedback reduced...

The demand for products with high reliability and low manufacturing costs is an ever increasing one in recent times. Inception of a product that beats competition in terms of both reliability and cost requires a design strategy that steers the engineering design process toward higher reliability from the very beginning. Engineering Design By Reliability (EDBR) is a methodology used to produce c...

Systematic methods for idea generation in engineering design have come about from a variety of sources. Do these methods really aid ideation? Some empirical studies have been conducted by researchers to answer this question. These studies include highly controlled lab experiments by cognitive psychologists, as well as experiments in simulated design environments carried out by engineering desig...

Reverse osmosis (RO). has become a standard unit operation in Chemical Engineering. This separation process can be used for a wide variety of applications including: desalination of sea water, treatment of industrial wastes, concentration of food products, and recovery of value materials from solution mixtures. In order to best utilize RO it is necessary to have a fundamental understanding of t...

Evaluation is a key task in design, and a major goal in computational design is to develop techniques for evaluating designs throughout the design process, starting as early in the process as possible. We describe a computational technique for evaluating design concepts early in conceptual phase of engineering design. Conceptual design in engineering is abstracted as a function to structure map...

The design of engineering processes is dependent on the context they are designed for. This paper presents the results of an action research study that used design rationale to discover a number of contextual factors that provide criteria for designing a requirements engineering process in a given product line environment. The presented context dimensions and process design argumentation provid...

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This paper narrates the experience of a Canadian university in reorienting its mining curriculum towards the goal of producing engineers who are sensitive to context. The authors acknowledge industry’s historical association with environmental degradation and imperialism, but counter that mining is necessary to provide the materials of civil infrastructure, particularly that required to reduce ...

This paper presents a future vision for the working practices of designers within a manufacturing organisation. By its very nature the engineering design environment is highly distributed in nature and is characterised by a large number of information sources, which together with the designers forms a complex sociotechnical system. In discussions with designers it is apparent that changes are r...