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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"design center"”.
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Investigation of Model-Based Systems Engineering Integration Challenges and Improvements
… Increased technological complexity has made design, testing, and implementation more difficult. Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) promises to help by improving system understanding across stakeholders, managing traceability, complexity, and capacity for design reuse, as well as reducing …
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Development of a design environment for integrated concurrent engineering (DE-ICE) in university education : integrating student designers, design tools, and active learning
The development of an operational framework for a design center to enhance learning in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics is described. The results of research at MIT, which included a survey of students and faculty in the Department, is summarized. Visits to aerospace industry design …
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Architecture and the hypermachine: The "augmented" studio in architectural education
… on the implications of the ADS on critical design issues which need to be addressed in order to study the possibilities of a revised pedagogy (if necessary) for the Design Center. The work studies the implications of the ADS on design education, needs, the design-machine interface, and most …
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Engineering design leadtime drivers analysis
… important performance metrics in the engineering design organization of General Motors' Truck Group. Because of the many variables that influence leadtime. It is not clear where efforts should be focused to improve leadtime. Quantitative models for the variables affecting leadtime were developed …
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The re-industrial city : what case studies from New York and San Francisco tell us about the urban manufacturing resurgence
… or nonexistent. Planning codes and urban design ideals remain set in a 20th century mindset, while today's manufacturing has changed dramatically, becoming smaller and more networked than its previous iteration. Outdated perceptions of manufacturing block progressive policy reform at the …
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Agroforestry in the Temperate Landscape: Precedent, Practice, and Design Proposal
… These findings culminate in the proposition of a design for an agroforestry research and demonstration farm in the Mid-Atlantic United States. The goal of this design is to recontextualize a historic dairy farm in Maryland, USA with the construction of a new education, production, and design …
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Organizing Around a Center: A Design Incubator and Business Center
… explores the development of an interdisciplinary design incubator and community business center in Richmond, Virginia through the adaptive reuse of a retired, historic school building. In contrast to the deteriorating conditions of Patrick Henry School, renewed growth abounds in its extraordinary …
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Improving design and manufacturing performance through advanced visualization
… and facilities. The CAVE hosts a wide variety of design review events across the whole product lifecycle focused on product design and manufacturing, as well as facility / factory modernization. This work explores the use cases taking place in the CAVE, both established and experimental. …