A scientific approach to engineering design

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A scientific approach to engineering design

Vladimir Hubka, W. Ernst Eder¹•Institutions (1)

Royal Military College of Canada¹

01 Jul 1987-Design Studies (Elsevier)-Vol. 8, Iss: 3, pp 123-137

TL;DR: It is shown than in order to establish a scientific theory of design, the following aspects need to be studied and covered: the designer, the activity, the object, the context in which engineering design takes place, and the context of use of the resulting technical system.

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About: This article is published in Design Studies.The article was published on 1987-07-01. It has received 114 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Design education & Design science.

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Designerly Ways of Knowing: Design Discipline Versus Design Science

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Nigel Cross

01 Jul 2001-Design Issues

TL;DR: A review of design and science concerns can be found in this paper, with a brief review of some of the historical concerns that have emerged with respect to the relationship between design and Science.

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Abstract: Design and Science I would like to begin this paper with a brief review of some of the historical concerns that have emerged with respect to the relationship between design and science. These concerns emerged strongly at two important periods in the modern history of design: in the 1920s, with a search for scientific design products, and in the 1960s, with a concern for scientific design process. The 40-year cycle in these concerns appears to be coming around again, and we might expect to see the reemergence of design-science concerns in the 2000s. A desire to “scientise” design can be traced back to ideas in the twentieth century modern movement of design. For example, in the early 1920s, the De Stijl protagonist, Theo van Doesburg, expressed his perception of a new spirit in art and design: “Our epoch is hostile to every subjective speculation in art, science, technology, etc. The new spirit, which already governs almost all modern life, is opposed to animal spontaneity, to nature’s domination, to artistic flummery. In order to construct a new object we need a method, that is to say, an objective system.” 1

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Design explorations of performance driven geometry in architectural design using parametric modeling and genetic algorithms

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Michela Turrin¹, Peter von Buelow², Rudi Stouffs³•Institutions (3)

Delft University of Technology¹, University of Michigan², National University of Singapore³

01 Oct 2011-Advanced Engineering Informatics

TL;DR: The benefits derived by combining parametric modeling and genetic algorithms to achieve a performance oriented process in design, with specific focus on architectural design are discussed, and ParaGen is presented as a tool to support the exploration of the parametric design alternatives.

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...Despite the large debate on the existence of a scientific nature of design [39,49], systems of logically connected knowledge and categorizations of design problems [42] have been largely developed in design methods [12,24,28,72,75]....
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A treatise on order in engineering design research

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Imre Horváth¹•Institutions (1)

Delft University of Technology¹

20 Aug 2004-Research in Engineering Design

TL;DR: A framework of reasoning was constructed, including source, channel, and sink categories of knowledge and research of engineering design, respectively, which enables a grounded argumentation about the order ofengineering design research, as well as about the articulation of the engineering design knowledge.

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Abstract: Engineering design research shows a rather fragmented, if not a chaotic, picture. But does it have a hidden order? Can we explore it, or should we impose a reasoning model? This paper looks for the answer in the purpose of engineering design. It is destined to sustain human existence and well being by virtual creation of artifacts and services for the society. To this end, the engineering design discipline should provide a proper body of knowledge. The design knowledge obtained by empirical exploration and/or rational comprehension should be transformed for practical/pragmatic deployment. It was assumed that this purposely streaming of design knowledge gives a unique rationale for engineering design research. Based on this, a framework of reasoning was constructed, including source, channel, and sink categories of knowledge and research of engineering design, respectively. Within each category, research domains, trajectories, and approaches were identified. The semantic relationships of domains, trajectories, and approaches form a hierarchical structure. The proposed framework enables a grounded argumentation about the order of engineering design research, as well as about the articulation of the engineering design knowledge.

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...Hubka and Eder (1987) identified the content for the theory of technical systems as the total of sub-theories such as property theory, structure theory, transformation (process) theory, conformational theory, life-stage theory, evolution theory, and ecology theory....
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...Defined by Hubka and Eder (1987), the engineering design problem is to achieve the best possible results in the design process, particularly by achieving optimum quality of designed products in the shortest time at minimum design costs, especially with respect to low life cycle costs, societal…...
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...Hubka and Eder (1987) identified two constituents of design science as concepts of technical information and of design methodology....
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Design: one, but in different forms

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Willemien Visser¹•Institutions (1)

Télécom ParisTech¹

01 May 2009-Design Studies

TL;DR: This overview paper defends an augmented cognitively oriented generic-design hypothesis, reviewing the data available in the cognitive design research literature and proposing a series of candidates underlying such forms of design, outlining a number of directions requiring further elaboration.

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...…been much discussion in the design-research community around the relations between design and science (Sargent, 1994), some authors considering that a design science is to be developed (Hubka & Eder, 1987), others, such as Cross (2001b; 2002b), judging that the two are to be clearly distinguished....
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...Without any such underpinning, for example, the engineering-design methodologists Hubka and Eder (1987) assert that "the object of a design activity, what is being designed… substantially influences the design process."...
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...For Hubka and Eder (1987), "design science addresses the problem of determining and categorizing all regular phenomena of the systems to be designed, and of the design process" (p. 124)....
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...science is to be developed ( Hubka & Eder, 1987 ), others, such as Cross (2001a; 2002b ), judging that...
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Designing and instructional design

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Gordon Rowland¹•Institutions (1)

Ithaca College¹

01 Mar 1993-Educational Technology Research and Development

TL;DR: Results from numerous studies of design are synthesized to provide a basis for considering instructional design as a type of designing rather than an isolated phenomenon.

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Abstract: What do we know about the process of designing instruction? We have a large body of literature and numerous prescriptive models, yet it is not clear that designers actually operate as the literature and models suggest. Other design fields, such as architecture and engineering, have similar concerns, but have acted upon those concerns by systematically investigating design processes. Considering the results of such studies may prove beneficial to instructional designers in terms of promoting critical analysis of processes and decisions and identifying questions and hypotheses for research. In this article, results from numerous studies of design are synthesized to provide a basis for considering instructional design as a type of designing rather than an isolated phenomenon.

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... Hubka and Eder (1987) describe how these and other factors affect such things as the quality of the design, the duration and efficiency of the design process, and the cost of designing....
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...A basic task o/designing is to convert information in the form of requirements into information in the form of specifications ( Hubka & Eder, 1987 )....
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...Designing involves technical skills and creativity, rational and intuitive thought processes ( Hubka & Eder, 1987; Nadin & Novak, 1987; Lawson, 1980)....
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...For example, Hubka and Eder (1987) call for "determining and categorizing all regular phenomena of the systems to be designed, and of the design process" (p. 124)....
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