Journal ArticleJournal of Mechanical Design · December 1, 2025
Extreme design (XD) is a proposed research framework addressing engineering design’s outer edges of complexity and uncertainty. As the scale and urgency of global challenges grow, such as climate change, autonomous systems, and aging populations, so does t ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the Design Society · August 1, 2025
Design teams commonly need to explain the rationale or logic behind how they frame design challenges and develop a particular design concept and not others. This paper explores the use of Design Logic Visualizations (DLV) as a boundary object to enhance un ...
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ConferenceAIAA Aviation Forum and Ascend 2025 · January 1, 2025
This paper examines typical disruptions to aviation caused by natural disasters. While there are many disruptions that impact aviation, this paper will primarily cover flooding, severe weather storms, extreme temperatures, and clear air turbulence across t ...
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ConferenceAIAA Aviation Forum and Ascend 2025 · January 1, 2025
The NASA Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS) project convened a team of researchers to investigate the needs of rural communities with an eye towards the application of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) technologies. The Connecting Rural Communities and C ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2025
In the majority of computational simulations developed for engineering design research, the focus is on simulation for the purpose of analysis, such as simulating stresses to identify yield or fracture points in structures. However, what about simulating d ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2025
Engineering design requires effective stakeholder perspective-taking (SPT), a process in which designers actively consider and integrate the viewpoints of stakeholders into their design decisions. This is especially important in design processes aimed at a ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2025
There have been multiple calls to increase research impact and theory development in design research. Theory development has been tied to both scholarly impact (e.g., citations within and beyond a field) and practical impact (e.g., strength and reliability ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2025
Designing future worlds in a speculative design process requires creative ideas. Speculative design has ties to both engineering design and creative writing, and while AI use has been found to impact the creativity of ideas in both fields, these field have ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2025
Engineering design is social—both in the sense that the process of design requires social interactions and in the sense that the outcomes are embedded into society resulting in direct and indirect social effects. Qualitative and participatory methods equip ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2025
Effective teamwork is essential for engineering design, but communication challenges can hinder collaboration. Interaction Dynamics Notation (IDN) provides a structured framework for analyzing team interactions, but its manual coding process is time-consum ...
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ConferenceNo. DETC2024-143560 · August 25, 2024
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Designers are increasingly using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in design processes; however, knowing how designers use GenAI--especially in professional design practice--is under-explored. This paper presents an ethnographic study of a design ...
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ConferenceAIAA Aviation Forum and Ascend 2024 · January 1, 2024
As the world grows increasingly networked and complex, so do challenges faced by aviation and technology professionals (e.g., fighting wildfires and increasing access to healthcare). There is a need to develop new methods to tackle complex socio-technical ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the Design Society · July 1, 2023
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Stakeholder perspective taking is a critical skill in early-stage problem exploration and framing. We examined stakeholder perspective taking within an early-stage design team of engineers at NASA to begin to understand in what ways and under what conditio ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Mechanical Design · March 1, 2023
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Spanning knowledge group boundaries is both a source of and barrier to design performance and innovation. Objects - from prototypes to kanban boards - are frequently used in cross-functional design practice, but their associated outcomes appear varied and ...
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ConferenceAIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition AIAA Aviation Forum 2023 · January 1, 2023
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From climate change to health inequity, humankind faces complex societal challenges that aviation can both exacerbate and help to alleviate. In this paper we describe our approach to identifying and approaching complex societal challenges with existing or ...
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Journal ArticleAdvances in Engineering Education · January 1, 2022
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Campus-community partnerships are integral to community-engaged learning, service-learning and similar pedagogies that extend project-based learning beyond the classroom into “real world” communities. Community-engaged courses have increased in prevalence ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference · January 1, 2022
Engineering designers often span knowledge boundaries when developing complex systems but doing so poses challenges because members of different knowledge groups must bridge their language, cognitions, and “thought worlds” to effectively broker, resituate, ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Engineering Education · January 1, 2020
This paper looks at the culture of an academic research lab. Our aim is to internally reflect on how the connections between ideas and individuals can be noticed and labeled in order to create a shared cultural frame. We use a case-study approach with a se ...
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ConferenceASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 15, 2019
Hands-on education - the integration of mind and hands - is often believed to transform the way that students think and learn. How and how much are students changed by hands-on education, and by what mechanisms do such transformations occur? This explorato ...
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ConferenceASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · June 24, 2017
Engineering has a long history of developing solutions to meet societal needs, and humanity currently faces many and varied societal challenges. Who are the engineering students motivated to address such challenges? This study explores a sample of 5,819 un ...
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ConferenceProceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design Iced · January 1, 2017
After decades of limited success "designing for the developing world", it is clear that Base of the Pyramid (BoP) markets are complex and face unique challenges, such as large geographical distances between designers and users as well as poor understanding ...
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