... research. As stated in Sec. 3 , the GPU-based parallel region classification method introduced in this paper applies to continuous constraint satisfaction problems with a finite set of inequality constraints that have closed-form expressions, which covers many real-world engineering design problems (e.g...

... the realistic multi-objective car structure design and actuator design problem, it is shown that there is a significant improvement gained in terms of convergence by utilizing the generalized version of the multiple constraint ranking techniques. Optimization methods are crucial for engineering design...

...Megan Tomko; Melissa Alemán; Robert Nagel; Wendy Newstetter; Julie Linsey While advances have been made in studying engineering design learning in the classroom, to date, such advances have not addressed hands-on, real-world learning experiences in university makerspaces. Our particular interest...

... ,” ASME J. Mech. Des. , 137 ( 5 ), p. 051102 . 10.1115/1.4029585 [45] Riggs , M. , Mountain , P. , Nagel , R. L. , Bohm , M. R. , and Linsey , J. S. , 2016 , “ Knowledge Retention and Scoring Metrics for Functional Modeling in an Engineering Design Context ,” Proceedings...

...Guanglu Zhang; Ayush Raina; Ethan Brownell; Jonathan Cagan Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) offer new opportunities for human–AI cooperation in engineering design. Human trust in AI is a crucial factor in ensuring an effective human–AI cooperation, and several approaches to enhance human...

... , 12 ( 3 ), pp. 62 – 70 . 10.1109/64.590078 [3] Christensen , B. T. , and Schunn , C. D. , 2007 , “ The Relationship of Analogical Distance to Analogical Function and Preinventive Structure: The Case of Engineering Design ,” Mem. Cognit. , 35 ( 1 ), pp. 29 – 38 . 10.3758...

...Binyang Song; Nicolás F. Soria Zurita; Hannah Nolte; Harshika Singh; Jonathan Cagan; Christopher McComb As artificial intelligence (AI) assistance tools become more ubiquitous in engineering design, it becomes increasingly necessary to understand the influence of AI assistance on the design process...

...Ji Han; Serhad Sarica; Feng Shi; Jianxi Luo In the past two decades, there has been increasing use of semantic networks in engineering design for supporting various activities, such as knowledge extraction, prior art search, idea generation, and evaluation. Leveraging large-scale pre-trained graph...

...Ethan Brownell; Jonathan Cagan; Kenneth Kotovsky Prior research has demonstrated how the average characteristics of a team impact team performance. The relative contribution of team members has been largely ignored, especially in the context of engineering design. In this work, a behavioral study...

...Jian Xie; Youyi Bi; Zhenghui Sha; Mingxian Wang; Yan Fu; Noshir Contractor; Lin Gong; Wei Chen Understanding the impact of engineering design on product competitions is imperative for product designers to better address customer needs and develop more competitive products. In this paper, we propose...

... engineering design, however, practitioners usually have certain knowledge about the design problem such as variables involved in the problem, the input–output relations, or even have some mathematical functions based on physical laws. Such information is largely ignored when solving engineering design...

...Maryam Khorshidi; Jami J. Shah; Jay Woodward In fact, to our knowledge, no test specific to engineering design exists, which assesses all the mentioned indicators of abstract reasoning at a qualitative or rough-quantitative level. We, therefore, saw a need for developing a test which...

... should be built with materials requiring minimal time, cost, and effort for the designers. design fixation engineering design mental models physical models prototyping Sunk Cost Effect Idea generation plays an especially vital role in determining the quality of the final design [ 1...

... are made for the appropriate combinations of factor levels for various design activities. 23 09 2011 13 03 2012 23 04 2012 24 04 2012 function structure product modeling design cognition engineering design communication The overall goal of this research...

... environments, we examined the pattern of tool use in 43 interdisciplinary engineering design teams enrolled in a full-semester product realization course. Teams worked all semester on a single project, with each team being assigned a different industry-sponsored project. Group meetings were video-recorded...

... to robust optimal solution(s). We pick up a number of Bi-objective engineering design problems from the standard literature and study them in the proposed robust optimization framework to demonstrate the enhanced performance. A cross-validation study is performed to analyze whether the solutions obtained...

... , Salt Lake City, UT , Sept. 28–Oct. 2, Paper No. DETC2004-57452. Hazelrigg , G. A. , 2003 , “ Thoughts on Model Validation for Engineering Design ,” ASME Design Technical Conference , Chicago, IL , Sept. 2–6, Paper No. DETC2003/DTM-48632. Oberkampf , W. , and Barone , M...

... on the effectiveness of the methodology to address issues and challenges associated with the nature of design research, and on pedagogical benefits that can be gained from its application in postgraduate design research education. “The early phases of the engineering design process lack formalism that can provide...

... to allot time to different design activities than first-year students at the end of a hands-on introduction to engineering design course. For the remaining four aspects of design process knowledge assessed—namely, identifying the requirements for a project at the project’s outset, making decisions...

...Maria C. Yang; Jorge G. Cham Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of sketching in design cognition, particularly in the early stages of engineering design. The goal of this preliminary study is to consider the role of a designer’s sketching ability and to examine the potential link...