This paper presents Design_net, a knowledge-based system to the online digital display, retrieval and archiving of rich media resources for industrial design education and research. It addresses the needs of end-users (teachers, researchers and students) and content providers interacting with the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano. The project moves from the assumption that tradition...

The research goal of this paper is to identify major academic branches and to detect research trends in design research using text mining techniques. In this paper, the information about scientific literature in design research isprocessed. A combination of clustering and bibliometric analysis led to shaping four academic branches and summarizing each academic branch. Then, research trends and ...

Traditional curriculum in electrical engineering separates semiconductor processing courses from courses in circuit design. As a result, manufacturing topics involving yield management, and the study of random process variations impacting circuit behavior are usually vaguely treated. The subject matter of this paper is to report a course developed at Texas A&M University to compensate for the a...

The broadening controversy surrounding executive compensation packages has made it increasingly important to understand the process by which these packages are designed. We provide a deeper analysis of this process than exists elsewhere in the literature because we interview individuals actively involved in the design and implementation of CEO compensation contracts (CEOs, directors, compensati...

Improved design innovation through the use of new product development activities, methods, and tools has been an area of fertile research for the past several decades for both academics and practitioners. High-level management process study has given way to the development of detailed, quantitative tools and techniques whose mission is to enhance the process of innovation. This research seeks t...

challenges of preserving digital objects, metadata about these objects, user experiences with these digital objects, and information about the dynamic relationship between these technologies and culture, will find this book useful.—Anders Selhorst, Guilford Technical Community College. Intended as a handbook for working librarians as well as a textbook for library and information science course...

This article profiles an educational technology assistance program titled Digital Language and Literacy, linking technologically literate graduate students in English with faculty developing online courses for the first time. Our reporting and assessment process includes the narrative evidence of two faculty and two graduate student instructional designers, chronicling the possibilities and con...

Assessing the influence of a scholar’s work is an important task for funding organizations, academic departments, and researchers. Common methods, such as measures of citation counts, can ignore much of the nuance and multidimensionality of scholarly influence. We present an approach for generating dynamic visualizations of scholars’ careers. This approach uses an animated node-link diagram sho...