T his paper derives from an undergraduate course in chemical product design which we ®rst taught in 1998/9 and are still in the process of developing. We are in the process of writing a text book to accompany such courses. We explain our approach to chemical product design and why the subject is important. The distinctive features of product design (particularly in contrast to process design, a...

A lack of interoperability represents a significant problem (not only in Brazil) in many productive sectors and is still not explored in building design. In order to investigate the problems relating to information exchange, principally data interoperability, a survey was conducted in design offices in the south of Brazil, to identify the problems and quantify the losses due to problem with the...

I the electronics industry and others, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are selling their production facilities to contract manufacturers (CMs). The CMs achieve high capacity utilization through pooling (supplying many different OEMs). Meanwhile, the OEMs focus on innovation: research and development, product design, and marketing. We examine how this change in industry structure affects...

Traceability and rationale management are utmost critical, especially in distributed collaborative software development projects, due to a lack of mutual workplace awareness and informal coordination among the participating stakeholders. Therefore, this paper presents the rationale behind and implementation of a conceptional design for a novel approach to traceability and rationale management i...

The establishment and development of business-to-business relationships are commonly evaluated from the customers’ perspective. In this paper we look the process mainly from the opposite direction. We define the supplier’s partner selection process as continuous assessment of relationships with customers, rather than merely commencement needed during the early contract negotiation phase. We hav...

David P. McIntyre Antecedents of Growth in Network Competition: Quality or Quantity? (Under the direction of Dr. Richard A. Bettis) This research examines the impact of two potential antecedents of growth in hightechnology, network industries. The first antecedent, installed base, is traditionally framed as a key driver of growth in these settings. The second, product quality, is thought to hav...

In response to the need of using electronic design data directly in construction management applications, many CAD developers have started implementing semantic data models in their CAD products using industry foundation classes (IFCs). While helpful, these semantic CAD applications have limitations when used in actual construction practices. The case studies in the thesis indicated that: 1) th...

operator's role in industrial control centers takes place in time, which is one of the most important determinants of whether an expected action is going to be successful or not. in certain situations, due to the complex nature of the work, the existing interfaces and already prepared procedures do not meet the dynamic requirements of operator's cognitive demands, making the control tasks unnec...

The trend has been well established [Asanovic09]: parallel processors will dominate most if not every niche of computing. This move to parallelism was not a triumphant march forward to celebrate our success in creating productive and efficient software environments for parallel microprocessors. Instead it was a sudden retreat from the immediate danger of building powerinefficient microprocessor...