Integrating Information into the Engineering Design Process

Integrating usability engineering into your medical device design process

Integrating ethnography into the requirements engineering process

This paper reports on experiences of an inter-disciplinary project involving software engineers and sociologists. The project is concerned with discovering the requirements for a user interface to a flight database which is used to provide real-time information to air traffic controllers. The sociologists are conducting an ethnographic analysis of the activity of air traffic control and this is...

Integrating Commercial Process Simulators into Engineering Courses

This paper presents a didactic activity concerning the use of PI/PID tuning rules, also addressing the issue of how to achieve a knowledgeable selection of the most suited one for the particular problem at hand. The activity aims at making the students aware of the rationale of said rules, and therefore of their suitability for the dynamic (not necessarily physical) characteristics of the contr...

Integrating Product Form Preference into Engineering Design

The product form has an important role in the judgment of a product, and increasingly more products within a market segment have similar technology and performance. This has elevated the importance of the appearance of a product, and being the first impression of a product visual, this work presents methods for the integration of the product form preference into the engineering design process. ...

Integrating Information Systems Methodologies into an Engineering Discipline: Methodological Issues, and the Rise of Business Process Engineering Integrating Information Systems Methodologies into an Engineering Discipline: Methodological Issues, and the Rise of Business Process Engineering

Making a business process with information systems is the target of information systems methodologies. A business process is intangible system that human beings make artifically to satisfy some goals. It is a human activity system [1]. It consists of human activities, contains formal components such as datamodel and information systems, and is subject to achievement of its goal. Since a busines...