One of the hallmarks of engineering design is the design synthesis phase where the
creativity of the designer most prominently comes into play as solutions are generated to …

Generating novel and useful concepts is essential during the early design stage to explore a
large variety of design opportunities, which usually requires advanced design thinking ability …

The bridge between engineering design and cognitive science research is critical to
understand the effectiveness of design methods as implemented by human designers. The …

Dynamic engineering systems are playing an increasingly important role in society,
especially as active and autonomous dynamic systems become more mature and prevalent …

The success of a product in the market is largely defined by the quality of design decisions
made during the early stages of development. The product design requires designers to …

System Architecture Optimization (SAO) enables automatically exploring combinatorial
system architecture design spaces, which can reduce bias and enable more architectures to …

A product's architecture can affect many aspects of product and process quality, from
technical performance to the design effort required, production costs and satisfaction of later …

The high complexity of cross-domain engineering in combination with the pressure for
product innovation, higher quality, time-to-market, and budget constraints make it imperative …

The high complexity of cross-domain engineering in combination with the pressure for
system innovation, higher quality, time to market, and budget constraints makes it imperative …

Conceptual design is a vital part of the design process during which designers first envision
new ideas and then synthesize them into physical configurations that meet certain design …