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ANNACON: Annotation with Constraints to Support Design
Ding, Lian; Matthews, Jason; Mullineux, Glen // 2009
The use of constraint-based and optimization techniques have proven valuable throughout the design process. Environments for such techniques are becoming available as stand alone and add-on packages ...
Anonymous marking in design - how does that work?
Southee, Darren John // 2009
An NUS survey in 1999 found that 44% of students believed there was discrimination and bias in their institution's assessment methods. More recently, there have been calls for anonymous marking ...
Assembly Simulation for Toleranced Parts: An Adaptes Path Planning Approach
Wittmann, Stefan; Winter, Marco; Paetzold, Kristin // 2009
One crucial task of product development is the definition of tolerances to assure the fulfillment of functional and aesthetic requirements. It is extremely difficult to specify the necessary ...
CAD Teams Performance Empowerment and Evaluation by Using E-Learning Tools
Bodein, Yannick; Rose, Bertrand; Caillaud, Emmanuel // 2009
3D CAD systems are used in practical product design to realize simultaneous engineering and also to improve productivity. It is today acknowledged that CAD tools can highly increase design ...
Case Study: Application of Team-Based Learning to a Mechanical Engineering Design Course Traditionally Taught in Lecture Format
van der Loos, Hendrik F. Machiel; Ostafichuk, Peter M. // 2009
The teaching of a third-year university course in design elements - e.g., gears, belts, bolts, bearings - has traditionally been taught in lecture format. In response to student feedback from the ...
Cataloguing and Selection of Displacement-amplifying Compliant Mechanisms
Jhawar,Neeraj; Ananthasuresh,G. K. // 2009
Selection from among competing alternatives is pursued in this work for a rapidly growing class of compliant mechanisms. By using the framework of storage and retrieval of a database, we present a ...
Contact and Channel Modeling to Support Early Design of Technical Systems
Albers, Albert; Braun, Andreas; Clarkson, P. John; Enkler, Hans-Georg; Wynn, David C. // 2009
The early design of mechanical systems is critical because it constrains options later in the design process. In this early stage of the design process, designers must consider customer requirements, ...
Decision Support for the Selection of Anti-Counterfeiting Measures Based on Modeling Damage Avoiding Functions
Petermann, Markus Alexander; Meiwald, Thomas; Lindemann, Udo // 2009
Manufacturers are confronted with a rising number of counterfeits and imitations of their original products, causing both financial and brand damages most of them are not willing to accept. There are ...
Design at a Distance
Holden, Georgina // 2009
The Open University has been teaching design at a distance for three decades. In this time delivery mechanisms have changed from non-interactive broadcasts to interactive media. A new generation of ...
Design for Reconfigurability: Achieving Flexibility in Light Machines
Mullineux, Glen; Matthews, Jason; Medland, Tony // 2009
Design for Reconfigurability is emerging as another important methodology of the "design for X". The important ideas behind the approach are discussed and their application is considered to ...
Developing IDPEO - a Multidisciplinary Approach to Product Realization
Wiktorsson, Magnus; Wikström, Anders; Jackson, Mats; Ekman, Sten // 2009
On the background of a changing industrial landscape and key elements of the realization of complex integrated products, this paper discuss and explore an "innovative" approach towards ...
Development of a Certification Process for Microenergy Systems
Kebir, Noara Zohra // 2009
Actually more than 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity and 2.4 billion rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating. Most of those households and small enterprises are helping ...
Development of Mathematical Models for Secure Collaboration in Product Lifecycle Management
Liu, Wei; Wang, Min; Zhang, Da Yong; Zeng, Yong // 2009
This paper formalizes product lifecycle management (PLM) based on axiomatic theory of design modeling. Collaboration and secure collaboration issues in PLM are of major concern. Mathematical models ...
Domain-Spanning Design Tools for Heterogeneous Systems
Brix, Torsten; Reeßing, Michael // 2009
In the past it was often adequate to assemble an overall system from separately developed and optimized parts. However, recent developments in engineering show the need to integrate mechanical, ...
Education of NPD in Virtual Multi-X Environments
c.Vukašinovi,Nikola; Fain,Nuša; Žavbi,Roman; Duhovnik,Jože // 2009
Cost competitiveness, energy price, geographic dispersion of human, knowledge and material resources are forcing companies to outsource and spread the tasks among companies and partners all around ...
Failure - Prediction Competitions to Develop Structural Design Skills
Field, Bruce William // 2009
At some stage in their education, a mechanical engineer learns how to analyze a range of structural elements, such as beams, columns, shafts, welded and pinned joints. Separately, they learn how to ...
Function-Based Solution Retrieval and Semantic Search in Mechanical Engineering
Gaag, Andreas; Kohn, Andreas; Lindemann, Udo // 2009
Providing relevant information at the right time to the right person is a key-factor for successful products and for efficient processes in mechanical engineering. To support the information chain in ...
General Systems Theory Based Integral Design Method
Zeiler, Wim; Savanovic, Perica // 2009
The paper provides insight in a specific design model, Integral Design, derived from the design model Methodical Design developed at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, in the early seventies ...
Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE) - A Comprehensive Study & Intern Abroad Program for Engineering Students
Albers, Albert; Burkardt, Norbert; Becke, Claudia // 2009
GEARE offers the possibility of internationalization for universities and students for undergraduate and for graduate students in mechanical engineering. Five distinguished universities all over the ...
How Engineers Synthesize Multiple State Mechanical Devices: An Observational Study
Todeti, Rao Somasekhara; Chakrabarti,Amaresh // 2009
Automated synthesis of mechanical designs is an important step towards the development of an intelligent CAD system. Research into methods for supporting conceptual design using automated synthesis ...
How to Generate Design Rules for Cost-Efficient Design of Mechatronic Products
Braun, Stefanie Constanze; Lindemann, Udo // 2009
The contribution in hand starts with the description of the special requirements of cost-efficient design of mechatronic products. Thereby the formulation of a generic "design to cost" ...
Integrated Product and Process Development Based on Robust Design Methodology
Mathias, Johannes; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Engelhardt, Roland; Birkhofer, Herbert // 2009
This approach shows a methodology which allows to systematically integrate the existing models and methods of Robust Design into the development of a product and its life cycle processes. To this ...
Integrative Engineering Design using Product Data Management Systems in Education
Gerhard, Detlef; Grafinger, Manfred // 2009
Today's students get a fairly good education in engineering methods such as Computer Aided Design IK(CAD) or Finite Element (FE) based analysis and simulation tools. All these methods are ...
Knowledge Transfer between Service and Design Phases in the Oil Industry
Vianello, Giovanna; Ahmed, Saeema // 2009
The communication between a company's departments involved in the different phases of product lifecycle is crucial in order to correct faults from previous products. This paper illustrates a ...
Boolean Searches
The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:
- design community
Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. - +design +community
Find rows that contain both words. - +design community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”. - +design -community
Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”. - +design ~community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not. - +design +(>community <decisions)
Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions” - design*
Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”. - "some words"
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.