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This paper describes a three-week project run jointly between the

Over the past 2 years the Design Manufacturing and Engineering Management Department at the Unive... more Over the past 2 years the Design Manufacturing and Engineering Management Department at the University of Strathclyde has been developing a digital library to support student design learning in global team-based design engineering projects through the DIDET project [1]. Previous studies in the classroom have identified the need for the development of two parallel systems-a shared workspace, the LauLima Learning Environment (LLE) and a digital library, the LauLima Digital Library (LDL) [2]. These two elements are encapsulated within LauLima, developed from the opensourced groupware Tikiwiki. This paper will look at the workflow in relation to populating the digital library, discuss the issues as they are experienced by staff and students, e.g. the application of metadata (keywords and descriptions); harvesting of resources; reuse in classes; granularity; intellectual property rights and digital rights management (IPR and DRM), and make suggestions for improvement.

DS 117: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2022), London South Bank University in London, UK. 8th - 9th September 2022

Prototyping is an inseparable part of product development in industrial and academic settings and... more Prototyping is an inseparable part of product development in industrial and academic settings and a major theme of design education. However, it is still regarded as a design activity which is poorly implemented by students due to their limited prototyping scope; a challenge that is raising the need for the development of structured guidelines. Since distributed design projects are becoming popular in design education, research highlights the necessity for digital tools which ensure efficient collaboration and communication between globally dispersed students. The intention of this study is to explore students' usage of the prototyping support tool (PST) which aims to assist with planning, documentation and evaluation of their prototyping activities. Insights show that the tool's digital version (e-PST) enables students to communicate efficiently and present higher competency when documenting their design process, providing justification to their decisions and illustration as to how their outcomes have been informed through design iterations. Suggestions for further improvement of the e-PST are provided through surveys and interviews of participant students.

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Product design presents an ethical dilemma. Despite increasing awareness of limited resources the... more Product design presents an ethical dilemma. Despite increasing awareness of limited resources the majority of product design endeavours contribute to unsustainable over-consumption. Is the product design industry self-fulfilling; creating products in order to create more products and manufacturing demand to follow suit? Through complacency has product design become unintentionally harmful and morally questionable, has it become the greatest "evil" of our time? This paper intends to provoke thought and reflection over the role of the designer and their responsibilities. Literature on the subject of ethics, morality and responsibility in product design is reviewed and discussed, the key agents who possess responsibility in design are also explored. It is proposed that designers, while aware of sustainability concerns, possess a diminished sense of personal responsibility for these concerns. A study was conducted to assess the level of empathy possessed by product designers in this regard, it is concluded that while on the whole product designers are empathetic they are complacent with respect to environmental concerns to the extent that it may be considered harmful and damaging.

A difficulty that often exists with the teaching of a product design engineering course is presen... more A difficulty that often exists with the teaching of a product design engineering course is presentation of its contents as one homogeneous entity in order to allow the students to clearly grasp the relationships between each topic. This paper describes a new design and manufacturing studio, recently created at the University of Strathclyde, and proposes that it can be used as an aid to achieving this homogeneity and providing students with an experience of how product design, visualisation, and manufacture can be efficiently integrated by exploiting the latest digital technologies. The philosophy, design, and effectiveness of the facility as a teaching and learning tool are considered. The paper describes the concept, physical layout and components of the studio by the use of sketches and illustrations, it explains the hardware, software, and other aspects and clearly shows the flow of data and information within the studio. The detail included on rationale, implementation, and experience in use, should be of interest to anyone already considering implementing such a system, or it may provide an inspiration to others to explore the possibility of creating such an environment.

DS 46: Proceedings of E&PDE 2008, the 10th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, Barcelona, Spain, 04.-05.09.2008, 2008

Building on previous work [1] this paper examines and presents the findings of a study into the i... more Building on previous work [1] this paper examines and presents the findings of a study into the information stored by 2 distributed student teams taking part in the Global Design Project, at the

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Design Studies, May 1, 2013

This paper presents the findings of six empirical case studies investigating the information stor... more This paper presents the findings of six empirical case studies investigating the information stored by engineering design students in distributed team-based Global Design Projects. The aim is to understand better how students store distributed design information in order to prepare them for work in today's international and global context. This paper outlines the descriptive element of the work, the qualitative and quantitative research methods used and the results. It discusses the issues around the emergent themes of information storing; information storing systems; information storing patterns; and information strategy, making recommendations; establishing that there is a need for more prescriptive measures to supporting distributed design information management. This work will be of great value to industry also.

International Journal of Engineering Education, 2007

Abstract: This paper examines the results of an international team-based operations management as... more Abstract: This paper examines the results of an international team-based operations management assignment that runs between two universities. The work shows the benefits of giving students a taste of real-life operations management problems both from a technical ...

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Innovations in technology and the growth of the global economy are changing the way companies wor... more Innovations in technology and the growth of the global economy are changing the way companies work. With an increasing number of workers distributed across the world, the communication tools teams have traditionally used are transforming to suit these changes (Kiesler et al., 2002). Design educators are aware of these changes and design students are subject to them. This paper examines the use of the increasingly popular cloud-based team collaboration tool, Slack (Rafter, 2015) in the context of a global design project and assesses some of its benefits and drawbacks compared to other communication technologies available, including social media. Educators who seek to provide guidance for students, and students who seek to learn about tools that are increasingly being adopted by businesses that need to effectively communicate asynchronously will be interested in this assessment of Slack and the report's recommendations for its application in similar projects.

Published work on product-oriented customisation lacks clarity in establishing how it is characte... more Published work on product-oriented customisation lacks clarity in establishing how it is characterised, how it is bounded, and how one would define increasing levels of customisation. This paper describes the development of a standardisation-customisation (S-C) continuum which consists of 13 distinct intervals, starting with "standardisation", or absence of customisation and ending with "evolution customisation", or absence of standardisation. Each interval is defined using nine characteristics that collectively define the boundaries of the intervals within the continuum. Analysis using a randomly selected sample of products from a range of industries has demonstrated the continuum's capability for distinguishing the associated level of S-C. Furthermore, no industry investigated develops products at each level of S-C, however, when combined all industries do. The number of possible levels of S-C tends to depend on the product's complexity and number of components. The continuum framework clarifies the concept of customisation, provides a scale for determining the product's customisation and supports the analysis of markets and industries against S-C. 1 INTRODUCTION This paper highlights the development of a new standardisation-customisation (S-C) continuum defining thirteen levels based on product development factors. These levels are required to improve the understanding and consensus referring to a customisation within design, manufacture and marketing communities. High levels of manufacturing competition lead companies to create and offer more attractive products to customers for increasing sales, customer numbers and loyalty. The keys to success and loyalty are the reliability of a product or brand, quality, trust, and the possibility of maintenance through spare parts; being traditionally achieved through standardisation (Ding and Keh 2016, Wang et al. 2016). Standardisation allows the production of the same product based on general customer needs despite varying locations, times and manufacturers (Ding and Keh 2016, Wang et al. 2016). As a result, standardisation has been the key to the manufacturing industry since its introduction. However, the manufacturing industry has evolved to become more complex, specialised, flexible and competitive, typically due to technological advances. These advances have circumvented a lot of these limitations and provide the ability to create unique customised products by designing and analysing extremely complex and unique adapted solutions (Miceli et al. 2013). Furthermore, the market demands more responsiveness and adaptability to a customer's needs rather than to the general needs of the market (Jitpaiboon et al. 2013, Wang et al. 2016). The choice of standardisation or customisation a basic product or component is obvious. However, the same selection for a complex product consisting of numerous components is not as simple because product customisation could imply the inclusion of some or all standard components (Wang et al. 2016). This situation is likely due to interchanging and sharing componentry across products that provide benefits in the development, manufacturing, maintenance, recycling and disposal phases (Wang et al. 2016). The use of standard componentry is due for example to reliability, inventory control, and the advantages this provides for mass production. Accordingly, product families are developed with a standardised core and customised interface between the customer and the product (Hu and Cunha 2013, Wang et al. 2013). As a result, the customisation perception varies amongst authors depending on a product's analysis depth, suggesting different levels of S-C. This lack of clear definition for product customisation, levels of customisation and main customisation areas leads to the need of a continuum determining a complete range of levels of S-C, starting with full standardisation and ending on full customisation. The continuum must consider manufacturing

This paper is based on a Royal Institute of British Architects funded project carried out with th... more This paper is based on a Royal Institute of British Architects funded project carried out with the cooperation of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. The study reports on modes of delivery for various levels of Continuing Professional Development (CPD); detailed surveys of the IT equipment and skill levels in Scottish architectural practices; and the possible uses of simple Internet technologies to provide CPD to these practices. Proposals are made regarding the strategies that may be adopted by the professional institutes with regard to both new technologies and supporting a widely dispersed membership.

An output from the NSF-JISC funded DIDET project

This paper documents the creation of an online course in CSCD. Through identification of gaps in ... more This paper documents the creation of an online course in CSCD. Through identification of gaps in knowledge and investigation into the best ways to learn softer skills such as collaboration skills, the requirements for the class were established. The class was created on a free to use LMS for all students globally to participate in a 3 class course.