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Sharing Experience in Engineering Design (Seed 2002)
Contributor(s): Evatt, M. A. C. (Editor), Brodhurst, E. K. (Editor)
ISBN: 1860583970     ISBN-13: 9781860583971
Publisher: Wiley
OUR PRICE:   $542.40  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: October 2002
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Drafting & Mechanical Drawing
- Technology & Engineering | Engineering (general)
Dewey: 620
Series: Proceedings of the 24th Seed Annual Design and Conference an
Physical Information: 246 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Sharing Experience in Engineering Design is based on papers presented at the Engineering and Product Design Education Conference E & PDE 2002.

This volume is vital reading for all those students, practitioners, and professionals operating in the field of product and engineering design and education.

CONTENTS INCLUDE:

  • The integration of design and business issues in the engineering curriculum
  • What are the qualities and competencies required by product design employers? Product design courses lead the way in providing the graduate with the necessary skills to get the top job
  • Designing for a sustainable future - promoting outreach through the use of case studies; Degree design - exploring creativity from the start
  • Assessing creativity - theory and practice
  • Developing an appreciation of the complex interactions between life-cycle analysis and design for manufacture
  • Strategic design and product development - a practical application of business process re engineering in bespoke manufacturing
  • Engineering design modules teaching by projects
  • Product design project teaching, using athletic transport artefacts as the vehicle
  • Sketching - a dying art? Overcoming human barriers to knowledge-based systems in design.