Engineering design (ED) is the process of solving technical problems within requirements
and constraints to create new artifacts. Data science (DS) is the inter-disciplinary field that …

Natural hazards, which have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and loss to
infrastructure, have increased significantly in recent decades. Thus, the construction …

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 …

Abstract Concept generation is a creative step in the conceptual design phase, where
designers often turn to brainstorming, mindmap**, or crowdsourcing design ideas to …

Design-by-analogy is a powerful approach to augment traditional concept generation
methods by expanding the set of generated ideas using similarity relationships from …

The natural world provides numerous cases for inspiration in engineering design. Biological
organisms, phenomena, and strategies, which we refer to as biological systems, provide a …

Engineering design is considered a creative field that involves many activities with the end
goal of a new product that fulfills a purpose. Utilization of systematic methods or tools that …

For an ideal design process, designers envision a configuration of components prior to
determining dimensions or sizes of these components. Given the breadth of the component …

This paper presents the data schema required to capture fundamental elements of design
information in a heterogeneous repository supporting design reuse. Design information …

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 …