Monthly Archives: May 2018

A model-driven decision arena: Augmenting decision making in early design

ABSTRACT A wide variety of expert competencies, transcending traditional disciplines, are needed to foresee and evaluate the impact of decisions in the conceptual phase of engineering design. Where this previously was a trade-off regarding design and development of the pure physical artefact it is now a complex ambiguity game involving all disciplines touching a solution […]

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Design creativity: refined method for novelty assessment

ABSTRACT Novelty is an important characteristic of a creative idea, forming a core component of creativity. Measurement of novelty is therefore essential to assess creativity. We found deficiencies in a frequently cited method of novelty assessment found in the literature. We refine this method by proposing four modifications, supported by drawing on examples of products […]

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Exjobb: Win-win för både företag och studenter

– Vi har fått med oss många bra erfarenheter från detta samarbete. Det är verkligen en win-win-situation där vi som företag kan bidra till att studenterna når sina mål, samtidigt som vi får chans att testa nya projekt, berättar Rickard Björnsson, produktionschef på Wugang Tailored Blanks i Olofström. Sharing       

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