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Changes to stakeholder engagement approaches throughout a capstone engineering design course
Stakeholder engagement activities are essential for guiding designers’ decision-making throughout their design processes. In capstone courses, engineering student designers practice engaging with stakeholders ...
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Open AccessIterative transformations for deeper exploration during concept generation
Engineering designers often generate multiple concepts to increase novelty and diversity among early solution candidates. Many past studies have focused on creating new concepts “from scratch;” however, design...
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Idea characteristics arising from individual brainstorming and design heuristics ideation methods
Ideation methods and outcomes have been evaluated in a variety of ways. Our study extends existing work through a qualitative analysis of idea characteristics based on the ideation method used. Beginning engin...
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Open AccessAn in-depth investigation of student information gathering meetings with stakeholders and domain experts
Information gathering activities in engineering design projects play an important role in the identification and definition of stakeholder needs and requirements. However, few studies have explored how student...
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BME Career Exploration: Examining Students’ Connection with the Field
A common perception of biomedical engineering (BME) undergraduates is that they struggle to find industry jobs upon graduation. While some statistics support this concern, students continue to pursue and persi...
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Open AccessPrototy** for context: exploring stakeholder feedback based on prototype type, stakeholder group and question type
Engineering designers frequently use prototypes to gather input from stakeholders. Design guidelines recommend the use of quick and simple prototypes early and often in a design process. However, the type and ...
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Transforming early concepts with Design Heuristics
Idea development in the early phases of the design process often involves the transformation of initial concepts into more feasible alternatives. However, this important component of design activity is often u...
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Using creative exhaustion to foster idea generation
Numerous studies have shown the value of introducing cognitive supports to encourage the development of creative ability, and researchers have developed a variety of methods to aid in generating ideas. However...
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Teaching Design Innovation Skills: Design Heuristics Support Creating, Develo**, and Combining Ideas
An innovative idea generation process explores a variety of diverse design ideas. While challenging to achieve even for expert designers, support tools can assist designers as they learn to generate more ideas...
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Open AccessUsing design strategies from microfluidic device patents to support idea generation
Microfluidics has been an important method in providing answers to a wide variety of research questions in chemistry, biochemistry, and biology. Microfluidic designers benefit from instructional textbooks desc...
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A Comparison of Cognitive Heuristics Use between Engineers and Industrial Designers
The present study focuses on an exploration and identification of design heuristics used in the ideation process in both industrial designers and engineering designers. Design heuristics are cognitive strategi...
