Sharing engineering design knowledge in a distributed environment

Abstract

Abstract. Engineering design is a complex activity, relying heavily on know-how gained from personal experience. Competitive pressures and new technology are making further demands on the skills and experience of designers, as e ective knowledge reuse in design is seen as increasingly vital, and the work of design teams is often a collaborative and distributed activity. U niversity students with a thorough knowledge of the engineering domain can be ill prepared for professional practice, with its increasing reliance on skills and know-how as well as knowledge of theory. Our approach aims to better prepare students for professional practice, through hands-on experience of design reuse, participation in distributed collaboration, and the development of presentation and documentation skills. Our case-study in the domain of modelling engineering systems, in which the course materials themselves are evolving and distributed, has rami® cations for the publication model of educational materials, and the way students should be prepared for working life.

An engineering design knowledge reuse methodology using process modelling

“…(Shahin et al, 1999), (Hansen and Andreasen 2002), (Li et al, 2004), (Concheri and Milanese 2000), (Xu et al, 2002)  Design information capture and representation: a method embedded in the design process to promote and enable reuse across projects, products, processes or decisions. (Hicks et al, 2002), (Matsumoto et al, 2005), (Concheri and Milanese 2000), (Zdrahal et al, 2000), (Ramesh and Tiwana 1999), (Knott et al, 2003), (Balasubramanian et al, 1999) This analysis highlights some issues for further research: the relationship between the design process and the design object is not well understood. Integrating rationale with the design process has relatively little work.…”

From behaviour to design: implications for artifact ecologies as shared spaces for design activities

“…Between the weekly sessions, the group kept collaborating on the group project as it was a primary deliverable of the course. The hands-on approach aimed to prepare the students for the post-university, professional working context (Zdrahal, Mulholland, Domingue & Hatala, 2000).…”

Uma iniciativa interinstitucional para a construção de ontologia sobre ciência da informação: visão geral do projeto P.O.I.S

“…Ambiente de aprendizado na Web desenvolvido para treinar de estudantes na modelagem e simulação de ambientes dinâmicos; ontologias são usadas para descrever o domínio físico dos sistemas modelados além de suas correlações (ZDRAHAL et al, 2000).…”