Knowledge management has recently become the focus of public attention in business and engineering. Because knowledge acquisition is situated in the upstream of knowledge management, capturing knowledge is an important step for enterprises to achieve successful knowledge management. We focus on how engineers solve their design problems under given design contexts and propose a novel model and m...

Lately management strategy that put Industrial Design (ID) in its core is recognized more important, as technology and price alone cannot differentiate a product. The needs to shorten the time to develop a product also shorten the development period of ID, and it necessitates the ID process management. This research analyzes the status of integration process of ID and Engineering Design (ED) of...

Dynamic models of metabolism have been developed for a variety of systems and can be applied in metabolic engineering design and to understand the time-varying characteristics of the systems when exposed to different stimuli. Hereby we analyse and compare the most used and complete kinetic models available for the central carbon metabolism of E. coli. Stoichiometric and kinetic comparisons show...

In this paper, a novel approach for the multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) of complex mechatronic systems. This approach, which is a part of a global project aiming to include the MDO aspect inside an innovative design process. As a first step, the paper considers the MDO as a redesign approach which is limited to the parametric optimization. After defining and introducing the differen...

This paper discusses the validation of design methods. The challenges and opportunities in validation are illustrated by drawing an analogy to medical research and development. Specific validation practices such as clinical studies and use of models of human disease are discussed, including specific ways to adapt them to engineering design. The implications are explored for three active areas o...

This paper presents a newly defined set-based concurrent engineering process, which the authors believe addresses some of the key challenges faced by engineering enterprises in the 21 century. The main principles of Set-Based Concurrent Engineering (SBCE) have been identified via an extensive literature review. Based on these principles the SBCE baseline model was developed. The baseline model ...

This article presents a mathematical model that provides explicit support for preserving the consistency between decisions made at various points during building performance analysis. Analytical Target Cascading, a multilevel engineering design optimization framework, is applied to the energy analysis process. Within this framework, the energy analysis problem is decomposed into hierarchical le...

This position statement argues that advanced, systematic modeling techniques are needed to support engineering of complex, heterogeneous systems. Models provide blueprints for the development and assessment of systems through computer simulation, pior to their deployment. 1. Model-Based Design Modem engineering design is a highly complex process. It involves a multiplicity of objectives, constr...

Feel free to contact to request further information, to propose a collaboration (e.g. a replication package) or to provide feedback. This report describes de design of an experiment that intends to compare two variants of a model‐ driven system development method, so as to assess the impact of requirements engineering practice in the quality of the conceptual models. The conceptual modelling me...