There are increasing applications of natural language processing techniques for information
retrieval, indexing, topic modelling and text classification in engineering contexts. A standard …

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 …

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

Highlights•Assistive AI boosts team agility with respect to both evolving and abrupt
changes.•The AI-assisted teams outperform the human-only teams.•The AI assistance …

Understanding how designers think is core to advancing design methods, tools, and
outcomes. Engineering researchers have effectively turned to cognitive science approaches …

How does a team of designers come to construct knowledge about the artefact that they're
designing? This question is the subject of intensive research on human behaviour in design …

Abstract Design representation is a common task in the design process to facilitate learning,
analysis, redesign, communication, and other design activities. Traditional representation …

We review the scholarly contributions that utilise natural language processing (NLP)
techniques to support the design process. Using a heuristic approach, we gathered 223 …

Highlights• We propose a set of six characteristics of research questions.• Effective empirical
design research questions are relevant, interesting, and novel.• Further characteristics …

Highlights•Student design teams focus on the technical feasibility of concepts during the
selection process.•Creativity is rarely discussed during concept selection despite it being set …