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 …

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 …

An experimental study was conducted to characterize the transient behavior of laminar flow
separation on a NASA low-speed GA (W)-1 airfoil at the chord Reynolds number of 70,000 …

There have been growing uses of semantic networks in the past decade, such as leveraging
large-scale pre-trained graph knowledge databases for various natural language …

This paper describes efforts taken to further transition life cycle assessment techniques from
the latter, more detailed phases of design to the early-on conceptual phase of product …

Leadership is vital to creativity and successful innovation in groups and organizations;
leadership is however seldom studied in the academic literature as a creativity driver. One …

This paper presents two design experiments to evaluate the impact of the size and shape of
a morphological chart used to identify promising concepts within those charts. In each …

In this paper, we present our findings on the development of a taxonomy for
electromechanical components. In building this taxonomy, we have two main objectives …

In this paper we present a formal characterization of the engineering concepts of behavior
and function of technical artifacts. We capture the meanings that engineers attach to these …

Designers should adequately develop user considerations such as usability, safety, and
comfort during the design process of new systems. Nevertheless, incorporating human …