Design Theory ’88 : Proceedings of the 1988 NSF Grantee Workshop on Design Theory and Methodology

In 1984, Nam Sub, who was then the Assistant Director for Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF), created the Design Theory and Methodology Program. Among his goals in creating this program were to develop a science of engineering design and to establish design as an accepted field of engineering research. From 1984 to 1986 this program was directed by Susan Finger; from 1986 to the present Jack Dixon has been the director. The program itself has covered a broad range of disciplines, from chemical engineering to architecture, and a broad range of research paradigms, from psychological experiments to mathematical models. The present volume is based on the second NSF Grantee Workshop on Design Theory and Methodology, called Design Theory '88, which was held June 2-5, 1988 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, USA. It is, however, not strictly a proceedings since it includes some material that was not presented at a the Workshop and since it omits some papers and discussions that were presented at the Workshop. At the Workshop, invited speakers presented overviews of six different research areas based on summaries submitted in advance by the grantees of the Design Theory and Methodology Program. Since most of the speakers were not supported under the NSF program they brought fresh views to it. The other papers in this book were submitted directly to this volume and were not presented at the Workshop. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Design-Centered Innovation....Pages 2-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Descriptive Models of Cognitive Aspects of the Engineering Design Process....Pages 10-17 Meta-Design: Reflections on a Graduate Course in Design Theory and Methodology....Pages 18-28 Design Theory and Methods — An Interdisciplinary Approach....Pages 29-35 Use of Systemic Theory to Represent the Conceptual Mechanical Design Process....Pages 36-48 Tools for Expert Designers: Supporting Conceptual Design....Pages 49-55 Modeling Software Design Within a Problem-Space Architecture....Pages 56-80 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Computational Models of Design Processes....Pages 82-116 A Fuzzy Set Algorithm for Engineering Design with Applications to the Component Parts Industry....Pages 117-131 Form — Function Characteristics of Electro-Mechanical Designs....Pages 132-147 Strategic Conceptual Design in Mechanism Synthesis....Pages 148-153 Optimally-Directed Innovative Design....Pages 154-154 Chunking Structural Design Knowledge as Prototypes....Pages 155-155 Engineering Design Synthesis: A Domain Independent Representation....Pages 156-156 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 Automatic Composition in Design....Pages 158-172 Formal Devices for Design....Pages 173-188 Form + Function + Algebra = Feature Grammars....Pages 189-197 Design Theory: A Model for Conceptual Design....Pages 198-215 Development of Design Methodologies....Pages 216-223 Object-Oriented Data Structures for Designing by Features: Integrating Functionality and Geometry....Pages 224-224 Front Matter....Pages 225-225 Design for the Operability and Controllability of Chemical Processes....Pages 226-238 Stochastic Modelling of Physical Processes and Optimization of the Domain....Pages 239-264 Retrofitting Heat Exchanger Networks: A Two Stage Approach....Pages 265-285 A Fuzzy Set Based Environment for Design Optimization....Pages 286-295 Ckaad-Expert....Pages 296-296 Computational Tools for Preliminary Engineering Design....Pages 297-297 Stochastic From Optimization....Pages 298-298 Globally Optimal Design Using Simulated Annealing....Pages 299-299 Constraint Management in Conceptual Design....Pages 300-300 Front Matter....Pages 301-301 Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle....Pages 302-312 Decision-Analytic Methodology for Life Cycle Design....Pages 313-313 Front Matter....Pages 315-315 On Research Methodology Towards a Scientific Theory of Engineering Design....Pages 316-337 Design Theory and Methodology....Pages 338-338 Back Matter....Pages 339-341 This volume consists of papers presented at the second NSF Grantee Workshop on Design Theory and Methodology, in addition to papers that were submitted directly to this volume. The research papers are divided into five categories: - Cognitive and social aspects of the design process, focusing on human cognitive and social processes involved in engineer design; - Computational models of design processes, addressing computer simulations of design decisions; - Environments, languages, representations and databases for design, describing formal or mathematical methods of describing form, function, etc.; - Analysis to support design, focusing on mathematical techniques used in the evaluation of design or in support of the earlier stages of the design process; - Design for manufacturing and the life cycle, devoted to research in the infusion of life-cycle concerns, such as manufacturing, or maintenance within the design process. The design of high-technology products and design-centered innovation will become more important in a world that is highly competitive and where neither cost-centered innovation nor technology centered innovation has proven to be sufficient by itself. Contents: The Industrial Perspective Cognitive and Social Aspects of the Design Process Computational Models of Design Processes Environments, Languages, Representations, and Data Bases for Design Analysis to Support Design Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle Research in Design Appendix: The Workshop.