Integrated Curricula: Purpose and Design

This paper has two objectives: 1) to define, describe, and discuss integrated programs and their advantages with regard to student and faculty outcomes, as well as student retention; and 2) to describe a design process used to successfully develop and deploy an integrated first year curriculum. This paper details the results of the design process and the content of the first year integrated program implemented by the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. The curriculum integrates the first year components of calculus, chemistry, engineering graphics, English, physics, and problem solving.     

Polishing the Gem: A First-Year Design Project

The improvement of the standard Gem paper clip is described as a design project suitable for first-year engineering students.     

Systematic Design of a First-Year Mechanical Engineering Course at Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University offers a first-year course titled Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering to introduce undergraduate students to the discipline of mechanical engineering. The goals of the course are to excite students about the field of mechanical engineering early in their careers, introduce basic mechanical engineering concepts in an integrated way, provide a link to the basic physics and mathematics courses, and present design and problem-solving skills as central engineering activities. These goals are met through a combination of real-world engineering examples, classroom demonstrations, and hands-on experience in assignments and laboratories. Over the eleven semesters that this course has been taught, teams of first-year students have designed and assembled energy conversion mechanisms using miniature steam engines and Meccano sets to drive a mobile vehicle or to generate electricity for lighting a bulb. This paper describes the systematic process used to design this course and emphasizes this process of carefully integrating lectures with classroom demonstrations, laboratory experiments and hands-on projects to encourage students' active learning.     

服务产品设计方案组合的决策方法

服务产品设计方案的选择或组合问题是服务企业运作管理中最重要的内容之一.研究了服务产品设计过程中方案组合的决策方法.考虑不同服务要素下的备选方案之间的方向性相容关系,以服务产品满足顾客期望的程度最大化和服务产品的总体相容度最大化为目标,建立了服务产品设计中方案组合的多目标优化模型.根据模型的特点,设计出相应的多目标进化算法对模型进行求解,获得服务产品设计中的最优方案组合.最后,通过一个移动传媒服务产品的实际例子,验证提出方法的可行性和有效性.     

Learning Engineering: Design,Languages, and Experiences*

This paper reviews current concerns about engineering education. Paying special attention to the role of design, constructs and themes are offered as enabling perceptions of how students can learn engineering. The constructs view the curriculum as a sum of skills to be mastered and experiences in which to be involved. The themes capture three attitudinal paradigm shifts: changing the balance between design and analysis; more explicitly recognizing that many languages are used in engineering; and considering whether the BS degree in engineering might be uncoupled from its role as the entry-level certification for the profession.     

An Integrated Materials Management System: Its Design and Formulation

An integrated management control system which makes use of quantitative business methodology is discussed. Areas where decisions need to be made and requiring assistance from the system are: distribution, production planning, inventory control and production sequencing. Quantitative techniques employed include time series forecasting, linear and integer programming, inventory and production sequencing theory.     

一种考虑指标期望的产品设计方案选择方法

提出了考虑三种类型指标期望的产品设计方案选择的决策分析方法。在该方法中,首先通过计算每个实际指标值符合决策者期望的程度来建立符合期望程度决策矩阵;然后依据公理设计中的信息公理,建立信息量矩阵,并基于建立的信息量矩阵来计算每个方案的总体信息量;最后,依据每个方案的总体信息量对方案进行排序。实例分析表明,提出的方法具有可行性和有效性。     

The Virtual Integrated Design Method

Quality function deployment proposes to take into account the “voice of the customer,” through a list of customer needs, which are (qualitatively) mapped to technical requirements in House One. But customers do not perceive products in this space and do not make purchase decisions in this space. Marketing specialists use statistical models to map between a simpler space of customer perceptions and the long and detailed list of needs. For automobiles, for example, the main axes in perceptual space might be categories such as luxury, performance, sport, and utility. A product's position on these few axes determines the detailed customer requirements consistent with the automobile's position such as interior volume, gauges and accessories, seating type, fuel economy, door height, horsepower, interior noise level, seating capacity, paint colors, trim, and so forth. Statistical models such as factor analysis and principal components analysis are used to describe the mapping between these spaces, which we call House Zero. Furthermore, utility functions used to determine market share are auxiliary functions that are often based in perceptual space. Conjoint analysis is often used to capture the product preference and potential market share. This research draws from the formal mapping concepts developed by Nam Suh and the qualitative maps of quality function deployment, to present unified information and mapping paradigm for concurrent product/process design. We call this approach the virtual integrated design method that is tested upon data from a business design problem.     

集成产品开发团队的分析与设计

阐述了集成产品开发团队（IPT）的内涵及特征,提出了IPT设计的系统模型,并从团队设计的思想基础,团队的构建原则,团队的管理内容及团队设计和运行工具等4个方面进行了详细分析,文章最后列举了一个实例,说明了集成产品开发团队的应用过程。     

集成化质量管理系统的设计开发

通过对我国制造业所面临的主要质量改进问题的分析,以笔者开发的集成化质量管理系统为基础,阐述了面向制造业的集成化计算机辅助质量管理系统的设计开发方法。所开发的系统实现了质量管理工具和方法的集成应用,为制造业持续质量改进提供了一个基础管理平台。     

生产线的虚拟集成设计

作为制造系统设计的重要组成部分,生产线的设计与生产线设备的利用率、产品的生产时间和生产线的效率等密切相关。传统的生产线的设计过多地依靠经验和手工演算,缺少科学性。本文利用贯穿虚拟制造的关键技术－不同层次的仿真,提出了生产线系统的虚拟设计集成架构,列出了在此架构的指导下的主要设计内容,介绍了国内外相应软件的情况,最后,给出了生产线三维动画虚拟设计的一个实例。     

论招贴设计中的同构图形

招贴作为一种户外广告,面对的是匆匆而过的行人,必须要在瞬间引起行人的注目和兴趣,将广告信息深深植入他们的脑海中,这种于瞬间传达信息的力量只有依靠图形来完成,图形的创意和表现成为招贴设计的关键。从当代招贴图形的发展来看,同构图形已经成为一种主要的图形形式,被越来越多的招贴设计师所应用。     

异型喷雾剂的整体产品造型设计

设计了几款外观新颖的喷雾剂护理用品,改变了现有直罐为主的喷雾罐造型,突出个性和识别性.论述了挖掘异型罐潜在的经济价值和塑造异型罐喷雾器的产品形象的方法.通过市场调查、产品分析,探讨了产品的人机关系,构想了理想中的产品形象和市场定位,最后通过产品整体设计,设计出了专利外观的喷雾剂产品造型.     

超级枢纽 上海虹桥综合交通枢纽设计

一天110万人次,相当于上海黄浦区的所有居民在虹桥枢纽里每天走一次,一年就是4亿旅客的出入量。对一个交通枢纽来讲,这是一个怎样的概念？     

Industrial Sponsored Design Projects Addressed by Student Design Teams*

We have developed and implemented a four‐quarter design sequence starting in the spring of the junior year. The first course focuses on having teams of students take an industrial based project from inception through a conceptual design process culminating in a final design specification. The senior year sequence is structured to have three‐five member teams function as a type of “engineering consultant firm” to address externally sponsored projects. The teams initially work with the sponsor to develop a “Product Design Specification (PDS)” as the foundation of the project. The teams then develop the conceptual design of the project during the fall quarter in order to get sponsor approval to move toward final implementation or prototype development during the winter and early spring teams. The course culminates with a day long symposium where each team makes formal presentations of their project and designs to the campus community, the sponsor representatives, and invited guests from the local community and potential industrial sponsors. The paper will present the specifics of the Junior and Senior level courses, brief overviews of the related Sophomore and Junior prerequisite courses, the method of obtaining the industrial sponsors, team formation process, sample projects, and assessment results from the first two offerings of the sequence.