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  title info:
    title: Tools for innovation and conceptual design
  name:
    name part: Karuppoor, Srinand Sreedharan
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Burger, Christian P.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Chona, Ravinder
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The ability to design is the distinguishing characteristic of an engineer. Recent research has increased our understanding of both the engineering design process and effective means for teaching that process to neophyte design engineers. In that spirit, a design methodology was developed at the Institute for Innovation and Design in Engineering (IIDE), Texas A&M University. At the core of this approach is a design philosophy based on the cognitive skills of Abstraction, Critical Parameter Identification, and Questioning. This philosophy along with the design process is taught in the senior undergraduate design and graduate design courses. The goal of the methodology is not only to teach the design process to novice designers but also to instill in them the design philosophy that would enable them to perform design effectively and innovatively in any area of specialty. Inthis dissertation the design philosophy along with its role in the design methodology is explained. The Need Analysis and the Conceptual Design stages of the IIDE methodology are elaborated. The weaknesses in these stages are identified and addressed, by developing and incorporating design methods and techniques that fit the spirit and framework of the IIDE design methodology. The Object Function Method was developed to address certain aspects at the Need Analysis stage. There was need for an effective concept searching method within the Concept Design stage of the IIDE design methodology. This is addressed by the development of new search techniques and methods for effective concept discovery during concept searching. The usage and application of these methods and techniques is explained in detail along with examples. Additionally, this dissertation contains the results of a study conducted with two groups of senior design students, those who have been through the process and those who have not, to evaluate the effectiveness of applying the IIDE design philosophy and performing the Need Analysis and…
  note: by Srinand Sreedharan Karuppoor.
  note: "Major Subject: Mechanical Engineering"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Oct. 15, 2004.)
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2003.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation).
  subject:
    topic: Major mechanical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering design
  subject:
    topic: Concept design
  subject:
    topic: design methodology
  subject:
    topic: innovation
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1260
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 050121
    record change date: 20151101050303.0
    record identifier: in00002029391