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Teaching product design to non-engineers: A review of experience, opportunities and problems
Gül E. Okudan,Sarah E. Zappe +1 more
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The Engineering Design Principles: Quality and Manufacturing Management (QMM 492) course at Penn State as discussed by the authors is a cross-training course where non-engineering students get a chance to cross-train before they are put in product design teams with their engineering counterparts.About:
This article is published in Technovation.The article was published on 2006-11-01. It has received 15 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Product engineering & Product design.read more
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Policies for design and policies for innovation: contrasting perspectives and remaining challenges
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine design within the wider context of innovation policy and, in turn, examine policy making from a modern design perspective, and suggest alternative approaches which might be useful for both design and innovation policy.
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Entrepreneurship, emerging technologies, emerging markets
Inderpreet S. Thukral,James Von Ehr,Steven T. Walsh,Arend J. Groen,Peter van der Sijde,Khairul Akmaliah Adham +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how one intrapreneurial large firm is investigating emerging markets such as India and China with emerging technologies to create a worldwide business solution power, and the investigation of an emerging technology is provided by a small entrepreneurial firm utilizing emerging market skill sets to define and enable worldwide business solutions.
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Comprehending products with mixed reality: Geometric relationships and creativity
Yuk Ming Tang,KM Au,Yohana Leung +2 more
TL;DR: Experimental results show that the proposed MR application in teaching product design positively improves students’ understanding in geometric relationships and creativity, and more features will be added to the MR application to further improveStudents’ abilities in learning and training in other aspects.
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Oil in water? Explaining differences in aesthetic design emphasis in new technology-based firms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how differences in aesthetic design emphasis among new technology-based firms (NTBFs) can be explained, and four hypotheses are developed based on a synthesis of existing research in the fields of design, strategy and entrepreneurship.
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The Recent Growth Performance of US Firms in the Industrial Design Sector: An Exploratory Study
Vida Vanchan,Alan MacPherson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the competitive factors associated with company growth in the US industrial design sector and find that competitive success hinges upon service diversity and quality of human capital, and that the most commercially buoyant companies diversified their service offerings beyond product or component design.
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Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning
TL;DR: In this article, the purpose of engineering education is to train engineers who can design, and that design thinking is difficult to learn and difficult to teach, and the most popular pedagogical model for teaching design is Project-Based Learning (PBL).
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Accelerating the Development of Technology-Based New Products
Ashok Kumar Gupta,David Wilemon +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined why product development delays occur, the nature of these delays, and what can be done to avoid them and identified four major areas that affect the performance of the new product development process: senior management support; early integration of functional expertise; availability of resources and how they are managed; and an organizational environment that supports teamwork.
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A study of success and failure in product innovation: The case of the U.S. electronics industry
Modesto A. Maidique,B.J. Zirger +1 more
TL;DR: The first phase of the Stanford Innovation Project, a long-term study of U.S. industrial innovation as mentioned in this paper, identified eight broad areas that appear to be important for new product success in a high-technology environment.
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Engineering Design: A Project Based Introduction
Clive L. Dym,Patrick Little +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Danbury arm support project is described as a case study of the design of an arm support for a CP-afflicted student, and the authors describe the design process as a process of questioning and defining the client's objectives.
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Innovation Strategies Under Uncertainty: A Contingency Approach for New Product Development
Gary S. Lynn,Ali E. Akgün +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the dominant innovation strategies and evaluate their applicability in the environment of emerging markets with emerging technologies and find that for the more extreme forms of innovation, a learning-based strategy will improve the chances of success.