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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"design skills"”.
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Contributing to and using a shared design memory : effects on learning analysis and design skills
A shared design memory emerging from the contributions of novice designers affords, theoretically, unique opportunities to support individual and organizational learning. StoryNet, is a shared design memory implemented, using a groupware technology, to support learning information systems analysis …
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Putting your customers to work : the design of Internet environments to facilitate customer participation in the conceptual design of new products
… the customer's participation in the conceptual design of new products. Customer design activities including geometry manipulation, feature selection, allocation of constrained attributes and design comparison .:ire combined to enable customers to explore a defined solution space to identify …
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Web-based Circuit Design Simulation Package For Solving Electrical Eng
A Web-based circuit design package has been improved and evaluated to provide students with an enhanced and innovative teaching tools package for the electrical circuit design course. The project objectives can be summarized as follows: 1) developing enhanced problem solving skills using a …
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Integrating the curriculum using a small-scale hybrid power train
… hybrid electric powertrain system, is designed, analyzed and fabricated by students in six modules, starting in their sophomore year and culminating in their final semester as seniors. This complex project has been selected in order to integrate the core mechanical engineering courses: …
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Learning to collaborate : lessons from the design studio
… of collaboration within the architectural design studio by focusing on the basic elements of group interaction (Commitment, Conflict, Communication, the Collaborative Process and the Role of the Critic), as they apply to both the process and products of collaborative design. The theoretical …
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The development of an effective learning environment in higher education for product design
… environment in higher education for product design. The research and development undertaken focuses predominantly on the BSc (Hons) course in Computer Aided Product Design (BSc CAPD) at the University of Wolverhampton, in the UK. Conceived in 1989 as a collaborative venture between the School …
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Electronic music instrument practice and the mechanisms of influence between technical design, performance practice and composition
… can communicate various details of instrument design and practice to the listener. I present two case studies concerning electronic music practice using repurposed devices - stepped filters - and by combining a detailed material analysis of the intsruments with interviews, video and other …
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The form of emotive design
… through our extensive interactions with them. Designers can extend and adapt pre-existing symbolic meanings through the design of these objects, adding a layer of emotive expression by manipulating their forms. Novice designers can express the 'character' of the objects they want to design …
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Automatic facial action analysis
… system called aide: automated intelligent design expert that creates graphics from data. It assists users of data who wish to design graphics by combining artificial intelligence techniques with current automated design software paradigms. The work extends previous research in four ways. …
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Enabling Performance Skills: Assessment in Engineering Education
… for graduating engineers. The case study was designed as a formative evaluation of freshman engineering students to assess the perceived effectiveness of performance skills in a design laboratory environment. The mixed methodology used both quantitative and qualitative approaches to assess …
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Enhancing the capabilities of small producers in developing countries to meet global challenges: an investigation into the contribution of international craft development initiatives.
… movement, and secondly the ethos of social design, built on the legacy of the appropriate technology movement. It is argued that both of these have a constraining impact on the development of indigenous design skills that underpin successful participation in global markets. Noting that craft …
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The impact of database systems on organisations : A survey with special reference to the evolution of the database administration function
… that with management backing, analysis and design skills and control over database usage, the DBA function has been able to acquire technical and political weight in organisations in a relatively short period of time. The current data processing environment however contains unique …
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A study of the experiential service design process at a luxury hotel
This thesis explores the process of designing experiential services at a luxury hotel. These processes were surfaced by means of a methodology that used the principles of jazz improvisation. Due to similarities between experiential service design and elements in jazz improvisation, representing …
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The technical designer: a new craft approach for creating seamless knitwear
The separation of the design and technical roles within commercial knitwear design has led to a 'technical skills gap' between designers and industrial knitting technology, which has contributed to the communication problems between designers and technicians. Historically, these issues have been …
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An Examinition Of Competencies, Roles, And Professional Development Needs Of Community College Distance Educators Who Teach Mathematics
… Teaching an Online Course, a 23-item instrument designed by the researcher, was mailed to 28 distance education administrators with membership to the Florida Distance Learning Consortium (FDLC) and 100 faculty teaching mathematics or statistics online during spring term 2006. Twenty …
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Designing Successful Social Ventures: Hands-on Feedback-Seeking Engagement with Stakeholders to Unravel What To Do Next
… social issues. A mixed-method research design is built around three interrelated studies which collectively tell us (1) “the What?” (the actions of social entrepreneurs), (2) “the How?” (approaches employed), and, finally, (3) the impact of both the actions and approaches on nascent …
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The Physics Laboratory in Higher Education in Libya
… the students while they can develop experimental design skills as well as developing observational and problem-solving skills. Sometimes, difficult concepts can be illustrated while laboratory work also offers opportunities for learners to develop skills in thinking, questioning, planning, and …
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Discursive Designing Theory - Towards a Theory of Designing Design -
Discursive Designing Theory - Towards a Theory of Designing Design- Juergen Faust Motivated by the immature theoretical framework of design, this thesis employs transdisciplinary discourse to provide a contemporary and forward-looking model of design and design theory, as well as the linkages …