Abstract Design stages have been widely recognized as a key phase in a product's life cycle
in implementing sustainability. Since the late 1990s, various sustainable design methods …

This paper is based on the premises that the purpose of engineering education is to
graduate engineers who can design, and that design thinking is complex. The paper begins …

Despite the availability of numerous “Design for X (DfX)” concepts/methods, their application
is challenging for two reasons: We address this challenge with a review of DfX methods with …

AN ANALYSIS OF DESIGN PROCESS MODELS ACROSS DISCIPLINES Page 1 DESIGN
PROCESSES 171 INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CONFERENCE - DESIGN 2012 Dubrovnik …

Highlights•Four types of collaborative product design processes exist in consumer product
domain.•The types are determined by the approaches adopted before the detail design …

This article describes the complex nature of the medical device development (MDD) process
and presents a product design process model to aid designers engaged in MDD. Basically …

In our time, an increasing awareness of short and long-term environmental impacts is driving
manufacturers to reconsider the product design process with a view toward sustainability …

Although sustainability is a frequent topic in product development literature, the often
segmented and narrow scope of prior works limits the potential benefits of the industrial …

Concept selection tools have been heavily integrated into engineering design education in
an effort to reduce the risks and uncertainties of early-phase design ideas and aid students …

Research supports the central role cognitive strategies can play in successful concept
generation by individual designers. Design heuristics have been shown to facilitate the …