1 Department of Engineering Technology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225 Abstract Fostering creative design within the curriculum in engineering and engineering technology is often both daunting and time-consuming. This paper describes the efforts in the Engineering Technology Department at Western Washington University to foster creative design within the curriculum by using...

Reviewing prior work and review papers helps to build guidelines to new conceptions in technical and non-technical innovations. The review work is commonly persuaded before patent drafting/filing or new novel research area or new business. Presently the review work is conducted based on journal publications, published patent documents, open web sites, etc. This review work typically depicts pas...

Offshore wind turbine is now being seriously considered as a crucial energy source to achieve not only CO2 reduction, but also to meet the enormous power shortages that occur in India and around the world. Nevertheless offshore wind energy is not competitive as on today with other sources of energy. There are combination of some select technologies which could bring about improvement in offshor...

Modular design, Axiomatic design (AD) and Theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) have been increasingly popularized in concept modern mechanical product. Each method has their own advantages drawbacks. The benefit modular is reducing the product period, AD capability analysis, while TRIZ’s expertise innovative idea generation. According to complementarity these three approaches, an systemat...

In the Object-Oriented software design (OOD), design of the class and object, definition of the classes’ interface and inheritance levels and determination of dependent relations have a serious impact on the reusability and flexibility of the system. According to the concrete problems of design, how to select the right solution from the hundreds of the design schemas which has become the focus ...

During ship block construction, watertight bulkheads weld of every cabin ships need to undergo stress testing according the tanks’ test plan. Every incomplete bulkhead cannot be sprayed in order protect them after sandblasting; this seriously affects process construction. Therefore, issue study is maintain integrity painting quality and reduce destruction paint, ship-building personnel seek how...

Design activity requires engineers to use their knowledge understand, formulate and solve industrial problems whose complexity is constantly increasing. Our work, at the frontier of linguistics, computer science engineering sciences, consists in making optimal information contained texts useful designers, particularly patents. Existing method extract from patents already exist, but without taki...

This paper extends the current development of a methodology for Computer Aided Innovation. It begins with a presentation of concepts related to the perceived capabilities of virtual environments in the Innovation Cycle. The main premise establishes that it is possible to predict the acceptance of a new product in a specific market, by releasing an early prototype in a virtual scenario to quanti...

Innovation of construction technologies have been slow compared with other industries due to lack of fast innovation tools and systematic approach. This paper presents the preliminary result of a recent work on development of fast innovation method for construction technologies, namely Systematic Technology Innovation Procedure (STIP), in Chung Hua University, Taiwan. The proposed STIP method f...