TY - CHAP

T1 - Is Engineering Design Disappearing from Design Research?

A1 - Andreasen,Mogens Myrup

A1 - Howard,Thomas J.

AU - Andreasen,Mogens Myrup

AU - Howard,Thomas J.

PB - Springer

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - Most systems and products need to be engineered during their design, based upon scientific insight into principles, mechanisms, materials and production pos-sibilities, leading to reliability, durability and value for the user. Despite the central importance and design’s crucial dependency on engineer-ing, we observe a declining focus on engineering design in design research, articu-lated in the composition of contributions to Design Society conferences. Engineer-ing design relates closely to the ‘materialisation’ of products and systems, i.e. the embodiment and detailing. The role of clever materialisation is enormous where poor engineering will often manifest in a multitude of consequences for down-stream activities. In this article we will draw a picture of what happens in the embodiment phase of designing, try to create an overview of current understandings and sum up the challenges of proper embodiment. Embodiment design is just as intellectually challenging as conceptualisation but seems much more engineering dependant and intriguing in its complexity of dependencies and unsure reasoning about properties by the fact that often a multidisciplinary team is necessary. This article should be seen as the fertilisation of this theory and terminology barren land, inspiring researchers to work on embodiment and detailing.

AB - Most systems and products need to be engineered during their design, based upon scientific insight into principles, mechanisms, materials and production pos-sibilities, leading to reliability, durability and value for the user. Despite the central importance and design’s crucial dependency on engineer-ing, we observe a declining focus on engineering design in design research, articu-lated in the composition of contributions to Design Society conferences. Engineer-ing design relates closely to the ‘materialisation’ of products and systems, i.e. the embodiment and detailing. The role of clever materialisation is enormous where poor engineering will often manifest in a multitude of consequences for down-stream activities. In this article we will draw a picture of what happens in the embodiment phase of designing, try to create an overview of current understandings and sum up the challenges of proper embodiment. Embodiment design is just as intellectually challenging as conceptualisation but seems much more engineering dependant and intriguing in its complexity of dependencies and unsure reasoning about properties by the fact that often a multidisciplinary team is necessary. This article should be seen as the fertilisation of this theory and terminology barren land, inspiring researchers to work on embodiment and detailing.

UR - http://www.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=F7A8JAlqm7kC&oi=fnd&pg=PA21&dq=Andreasen+Howard+engineering&ots=V1Up5C9C7H&sig=2PrX6OqroGkKMDXxxMCcEVSbQBc#v=onepage&q=Andreasen%20Howard%20engineering&f=false

SN - 978-0857296146

BT - The Future of Design Methodology

T2 - The Future of Design Methodology

SP - 21

EP - 34

ER -