Eric Brubaker

Conference Proceedings 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 ... Full text Cite

Building Resilience in Aviation: Economic Impacts of Disasters and Future Adaptations

Conference AIAA 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 ... Full text Cite

Applications of UAS Technologies to Create Resilient Rural Communities

Conference AIAA 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 ... Full text Cite

SIMULATING DESIGN THEORY USING LLM AGENTS: A CASE STUDY OF C-K THEORY

Conference Proceedings 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 ... Full text Cite

FROM DISMISSAL TO ADOPTION: EXAMINING AND VISUALIZING STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVE-TAKING IN DESIGN

Conference Proceedings 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 ... Full text Cite

THEORIZING IN DESIGN RESEARCH: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THEORY DEVELOPMENT

Conference Proceedings 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 ... Full text Cite

Influence of AI Use on Creativity in a Speculative Design Process

Conference Proceedings 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 ... Full text Cite

ADVANCING ENGINEERING DESIGN RESEARCH THROUGH THE USE OF QUALITATIVE AND PARTICIPATORY METHODOLOGIES

Conference Proceedings 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 ... Full text Cite

A REAL-TIME AUTOMATIC INTERACTION DYNAMICS NOTATION COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS SYSTEM

Conference Proceedings 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 ... Full text Cite

Human-AI Collaboration Among Engineering and Design Professionals: Three Strategies of Generative AI Use

Conference No. DETC2024-143560 · August 25, 2024 Featured Work 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 ... Link to item Cite

Operationalizing “Wickedness” as Analytical and Creative Tools to Transform Aviation

Conference AIAA 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 ... Full text Cite

A Spectrum of Stakeholder Perspective Taking in Early-Stage Design

Conference Proceedings of the Design Society · July 1, 2023 Featured Work 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 ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Approaching Complex Societal Problems Tied to Aviation

Conference AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition AIAA Aviation Forum 2023 · January 1, 2023 Featured Work 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 ... Full text Cite

OBJECTS OF COLLABORATION: ROLES OF OBJECTS IN SPANNING KNOWLEDGE BOUNDARIES IN A DESIGN COMPANY

Conference Proceedings 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, ... Full text Cite

Integrating mind, hand, and heart: How students are transformed by hands-on designing and making

Conference ASEE 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 ... Cite

Impact-driven engineering students: Contributing behavioral correlates

Conference ASEE 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 ... Cite

The roots of entrepreneurial career goals among today's engineering undergraduate students

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Co-design in Zambia - An examination of design outcomes

Conference Proceedings 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 ... Cite