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A concept for assessing environmental sustainability and circularity in the development phase on the basis of a sustainable PLM strategy
Kristin Paetzold-Byhain; Kathrin Greiff; Berfin Bayram; Bernhard Saske // 2024
Technological advancements to improve the mechanical behaviour of fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) make sense as a result. In the context of the circular economy and sustainability, however, a holistic ...
A NOVEL ASSESSMENT APPROACH TO ENHANCE MANAGEMENT, TEAM WORKING AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Monahan, Peter; O Callaghan, Lynette // 2024
A novel “employment experience” module is presented that utilises a students’ existing employment arrangements to further develop the key skills of communication, self-management and organisation. ...
Approach for the Reliable and Virtual Design of Mechanical Joints in an Uncertain Environment
Jonathan-Markus Einwag; Stefan Goetz; Sandro Wartzack // 2024
The demand for lightweight assemblies necessitates appropiate joining processes, such as cold forming processes enabling multi-material joints. The absence of universally applicable approaches for ...
ASSESSING THE EYE GAZE BEHAVIOURS OF ILLUSTRATORS SKETCHING FACIAL EXPRESSIONS FROM OBSERVATION
Howell, Bryan F.; Edwards, Alexandra M; Habben, David; Crowton, Melissa; Parker, Michael; Swenson, Clara; Day, Audrey; Germany, Jason // 2024
Sketching is a historical means of sharing knowledge and remains vital for communication across disciplines. Drawing translates mental images and experiences into visual knowledge and expression. ...
Consistency in Cross-Generational Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems
Albert Albers; Ina Schaefer; Lars Gesmann; Philip Ochs; Maximilian Fischer; Tobias Pett; Stefan Eric Schwarz // 2024
Developing CPS is challenging: Cross-domain collaboration and cross-generational design pose fincancial risks for manufacturers, as different engineering models can become inconsistent to each other ...
CONSTRUCTING A TEACHING AND LEARNING SYSTEM IN HIGH DESIGN EDUCATION
Wu, Zhiqiang; Li, Hua // 2024
Sheila Pontis and Karel van der Waarde（2020）found that the need for change in design education has been a topic for discussion for more than twenty years, but still, there seems to be a lack of ...
Design, Manufacturing and Recycling of Selectively Reinforced Hybrid NFRP Components
Niklas Frank; Johannes Baur; Christian Strohl; Albert Albers; Tobias Duser; Peter Middendorf; Thomas Graf // 2024
Lightweight components with natural fibre reinforced plastics (NFRP) offer great potential in reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions, but the weak mechanical properties of natural fibres limit ...
DESIGNING TOMORROW: ADAPTING CURRICULA TO THE CHALLENGES OF A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD
HALBE, PRASANNA PRAKASH // 2024
The ongoing information revolution has undeniably influenced the design field, which is characterized by technological advancements and unprecedented access to information. These developments have ...
Developing a Process Model for Future-Robust Advancement of Product Portfolios
Schlegel, Michael; Pommerer, Emily; Kempf, Christoph; Wiederkehr, Ingrid; Koldewey, Christian; Dumitrescu, Roman; Albers, Albert // 2024
The advancement of the product portfolio through new innovative products is an essential activity for the long-term success of companies. Simultaneously the advancements due to increasingly networked ...
DEVELOPING AN OPEN-SOURCE LEARNING ANALYTICS TOOL FOR PROVIDING INSIGHTS TO SUPPORT STUDENTS AND IMPROVE TEACHING PRACTICE
Covill, Derek; Tooze, James; Prieto Cabrera, Pablo; Owen Lloyd, Gareth; Grundy, Cate // 2024
This abstract introduces the development of a course level data analytics tool which we’ve called ‘the student record’. This tool aims to transition our course team away from a passive, standardised, ...
ENHANCING RETENTION IN MECHANICS THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PRODUCTIVE FAILURE DIDACTICS
Flipsen, Bas; Persaud, Stefan; van Breemen, Ernest // 2024
With the introduction of the new IDE bachelor in 2021 all courses underwent a revision to promote, amongst other, an autonomous learning attitude. The conventional approach of teaching engineering ...
EXPLORING THE USABILITY OF AI PROMPTS FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
Vuletic, Tijana; Ashcroft, Aaliyah // 2024
Computational support for concept exploration has been a research development in the last two decades, and the ascent of AI tools such as Chat GPT and generative design is further expanding it. ...
GAMIFIED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSES
Kessing, David; Löwer, Manuel // 2024
Design thinking is a well-established framework for structured innovation in various business sectors, particularly in the field of engineering design. The need to comprehensively teach this ...
HOLISTIC SYNTHESIS OF THEORY AND PRACTICE IN CAE EDUCATION FOR ENGINEERS
Kröpfl, Patrick; Ortner-Pichler, Alexander; Landschützer, Christian // 2024
In recent years, the demands placed on engineers and designers have undergone a significant transformation, largely due to the increased reliance on computer-aided engineering (CAE) systems, ...
Immersive Paths for Digital Product Engineering: Evaluation of a Game-Based Virtual Gearbox Workshops in Mechanical Design Education
Grau, Raphael Michelangelo; Bastian, Annika; Frank, Niklas; Volpp, Tabea; Dueser, Tobias // 2024
Product engineering in the 21st century are going through a transformative phase towards the digital sphere, in which processes, methods and tools are increasingly anchored in the metaverse. The ...
Incorporating Tolerances into Qualitative Reliability Models
Lukas Kleinhans; Jiahang Li; Patric Grauberger; Sven Matthiesen // 2024
Reliability of products is important to remain ahead in today’s highly competitive markets. Especially in products such as power tools, that are used in highly individual tasks in partially extreme ...
Investigating Modeling in Early Robust Design – A Study with the Modeling Method of Embodiment Function Relation and Tolerance Model
Li, Jiahang; Horber, Dennis; Renner, Philip; Yan, Jiajie; Goetz, Stefan; Grauberger, Patric; Wartzack, Sandro; Matthiesen, Sven // 2024
Robust design (RD) aims to design systems that are insensitive to variation, reducing costly iterations in later product development stages. Evaluation of the early RD methods, often case-based like ...
Investigation of the Use of Aluminum Foam Sandwich in Battery Housings for Electric Vehicles
Breuning, Charlotte; Hommel, Patrick; Roth, Daniel; Kreimeyer, Matthias // 2024
Aluminum foam sandwich (AFS) offers distinct mechanical properties including good fire protection and the capability to absorb energy in the event of a collision. This makes AFS a promising candidate ...
LEARNING ACTIVITIES TO DESIGN A PARAMETRIC SOLUTIONS SPACE FOR PRODUCTS IN INDUSTRY 4.0
Parmentier, Davy; Brosens, Lore; Christiaens, Yannick // 2024
The fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, presents both challenges and opportunities for industrial design engineers. An European Union report on Industry 4.0 identified four main trends that<name of university> ...
Model-Based Handling of Variability in Offer Management in Mechanical and Plant Engineering
Wilke, Daria; Bremer, Christian; Disselkamp, Jan-Philipp; Dumitrescu, Roman // 2024
This paper introduces a model-based approach for the offer phase in special-purpose machinery, focusing on simplifying customer requirements, rapid solution design, and cross-domain interaction. A ...
OLD PROCEDURE - NEW APPROACHES: QFD WITH CHATGPT - COMPREHENSIVE PRODUCT AND PROCESS UNDERSTANDING IN ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION
Nutzmann, Marc; Sauer, Thorsten; Voss, Markus; Bozkurt, Hulusi // 2024
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a known procedure used to ensure that customer needs and expectations are translated into product features. This can be gained by applying the ""House of ...
PROMPT ENGINEERING ON THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS
Valentine, Rod // 2024
The aim of this paper is to consider the impact of AI in engineering design teaching in traditional MEng undergraduate courses. AI is presently making headlines, so it would be interesting to use and ...
Robust Conceptual Design for a Robust Early Embodiment Design
Horber, Dennis; Li, Jiahang; Grauberger, Patric; Goetz, Stefan; Matthiesen, Sven; Wartzack, Sandro // 2024
Utilisation of Robust Design (RD) principles in early stages of product development can reduce costly iterations by identifying concepts that are less prone to functional losses caused by variations. ...
Toward Intelligent Generation of System Architectures
Von Heissen, Oliver; Hanke, Fabian; Mpidi Bita, Isaac; Hovemann, Aschot; Dumitrescu, Roman // 2024
Designing new systems involves collaboration across mechanics, electronics, and computer science, often through multiple iterations. We introduce a method using large language models to streamline ...
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.