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In 1984, Nam Sub, who was then the Assistant Director for Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF), created the Design Theory and Methodology Program. Among his goals in creating this program were to develop a science of engineering design and to establish design as an accepted field of engineering research. From 1984 to 1986 this program was directed by Susan Finger; from 1986 to the present Jack Dixon has been the director. The program itself has covered a broad range of disciplines, from chemical engineering to architecture, and a broad range of research paradigms, from psychological experiments to mathematical models. The present volume is based on the second NSF Grantee Workshop on Design Theory and Methodology, called Design Theory '88, which was held June 2-5, 1988 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, USA. It is, however, not strictly a proceedings since it includes some material that was not presented at a the Workshop and since it omits some papers and discussions that were presented at the Workshop. At the Workshop, invited speakers presented overviews of six different research areas based on summaries submitted in advance by the grantees of the Design Theory and Methodology Program. Since most of the speakers were not supported under the NSF program they brought fresh views to it. The other papers in this book were submitted directly to this volume and were not presented at the Workshop.

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Author:   Sandra L. Newsome ,  W.R. Spillers ,  Susan Finger
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.561kg
ISBN:  

9781461281894

ISBN 10:   146128189
Pages:   355
Publication Date:   28 September 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. The Industrial Perspective.- Design—Centered Innovation*.- 2. Cognitive and Social Aspects of The Design Process.- Descriptive Models of Cognitive Aspects of the Engineering Design Process*.- Meta—Design: Reflections on a Graduate Course in Design Theory and Methodology.- Design Theory and Methods — An Interdisciplinary Approach.- Use of Systemic Theory to Represent the Conceptual Mechanical Design Process.- Tools for Expert Designers: Supporting Conceptual Design.- Modeling Software Design Within a Problem-Space Architecture.- 3. computational Models of Design Processes.- Computational Models of Design Processes*.- A Fuzzy Set Algorithm for Engineering Design Applications to the Component Parts Industry.- Form — Function Characteristics of Electro — Mechanical Designs.- Strategic Conceptual Design in Mechanism Synthesis.- Optimally — Directed Innovative Design (Abstract).- Chunking Structural Design Knowledge as Prototypes (Abstract).- Engineering Design Synthesis: A Domain Independent Representation (Abstract).- 4. Environments, Languages, Representations, and Data Bases for Design.- Automatic Composition in Design*.- Formal Devices for Design*.- Form + Function + Algebra = Feature Grammars.- Design Theory: A Model for Conceptual Design.- Development of Design Methodologies.- Object—Oriented Data Structures for Designing by Features: Integrating Functinality and Geometry (Abstract).- 5. Analysis To Support Design.- Design for the Operability and Controllability of Chemical Processes.- Stochastic Modelling of Physical Processes and Optimization of the Domain.- Retrofitting Heat Exchanger Networks: A Two Stage Approach.- A Fuzzy Set Based Environment for Design Optimization.- CKAAD — Expert. A Computer and Knowledge Aided Architectural Design Expert(Abstract).- Computational Tools for Preliminary Engineering Design (Abstract).- Stochastic Form Optimization (Abstract).- Globally Optimal Design Using Simulated Annealing (Abstract).- Constraint Management in Conceptual Design (Abstract).- 6. Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle.- Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle*.- Decision — Analytic Methodology for Life Cycle Design (Abstract).- 7. Research in Design.- On Research Methodology Towards a Scientific Theory of Engineering Design.- Design Theory and Methodology (Description of the NSF program).- Appendix. The Workshop.- Workshop Program.- Reports from the Working Groups.- List of Participants.

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