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But worse, many engineers who practice their trade and produce new products are isolated from the many disciplines that all contribute to the creation of a breakthrough or even revised product. It is our contention, supported by best practices in industry, that engineers must participate in a team that not only includes other engineering disciplines (of many classifications, the better of which have a broader understanding than their own narrow educational focus) but also includes industrial designers, marketing researchers, financers. In particular, mechanical engineers must have a higher level, systems understanding of the product and the process necessary to develop it.
The course has four main goals:
• Learn a state of the art product development process;
• Learn how to work in diverse but integrated teams;
• Learn how to communicate ideas in both written and oral form;
• Create potentially patentable products.
At Carnegie Mellon we see the need for a “New Breed of Engineer”, one well trained in (mechanical) engineering fundamentals, but also one with a broader context. This engineer not only has exposure to the above issues, but also has the follow characteristics:
• Appreciates aesthetic implications – technology is only one aspect of a successful product solution;
• Creates connection to user/stakeholders – a product created independent of the target user, no matter how well executed, will likely fail in the marketplace;
• Understands brand and connection to form – the product development team creates the brand identity for the product, and often company;
• Connects to lifestyle, emotions and culture – products, whether stand alone consumer or components within a larger business-to-business system, create the experience that must fit within the user’s context;
• Demands integration with equal discipline contribution – engineers, industrial designers, and marketing and finance all bring equally important roles to the development of a product, and one’s discipline cannot lead without full participation of the others; and
• Contributes to soft quality as well as hard quality – quality manufacture programs and cutting edge technology must work in concert with the users’ emotion, the products’ form aesthetics and brand identity, and the ergonomics of use of a product. A well made product that finds no enthusiasm in the market is a failure.
Many of our students have taken advantage of the open engineering curriculum at Carnegie Mellon to minor in industrial design or art,
• For engineers, an understanding of industrial and communication design and the ability to communicate with designers. For designers, an understanding of the basic requirements of engineering and the ability to communicate with engineers.
Developing a New Breed of Engineer – Integrated Product Development at Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan Cagan, Fellow Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Craig M. Vogel, Professor
School of Design
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Laurie R. Weingart, Professor
Graduate School of Industrial Administration
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
http://files.asme.org/asmeorg/Governance/Honors/1105.pdf
What is an industrial what are their roles, how are they seen, why are they important working in industry study of how it has been done illuminating issue, More to do with how employer and companies see designers not how technologists do.
The new product design process is in fact a complex and sophisticated one. It needs time. And above all it needs a close collaboration between marketing, engineering and design experts throughout the development and realization of the product concept. This collaboration in turn needs an understanding on the part of non-designers of what industrial designers do, and how they do it.
Industrial designers themselves, like designers in general, tend to eschew words and to communicate to the outside world only in visual images, which themselves reflect the completed design rather than the design as process. This is indeed one major reason why outsiders see their work in terms of “simple creativity”: by keeping the process hidden in a shroud of mystique, they positively encourage such a view.
For many designers, the prospect of employment in a large corporation is instinctively repellent. This is not to say that they are unable to work in a corporate environment, but rather that their training emphasizes individualist values and freedoms. In most cases they can work in a corporate team as effectively as anyone, but they are psychologically resistant to giving up their perceived freedom.
This integrative quality of industrial design is important, for it has always the quality which, more than any other, has distinguished the most notable and lasting achievements of design from the rest, Designers have always been engaged to add a bit of style to an otherwise undistinguished product, and will continue to be so. But the best designers have always insisted on being in at the birth of a product concept and working closely with both the engineers and the many other specialists involved in its development.
http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk:8080/bitstream/1826/730/2/SWP2589.pdf
What do you do with an industrial designer? JOHN HENDRY Cranfield School of Management Cranfield University Cranfield Bedford MK43 OAL United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1234 751122 Fax: +44 (0)1234 781806 and ANGELA DUMAS London Business School Sussex Place, Regent’s Park London NW1 4SA Tel: 071 262 SOS0 Copyright: Hendry and Dumas 1988
Interesting about pda design designer and engineers
They want this PDA to physically stretch. They want you to be able to pull on one end and extend the PDA to reveal even more features. They want a lot. A whole lot. And, finally, the industrial designers turn to Fuhs and his guys and ask if it can be done. And Fuhs and his guys say no. But that "no" was only tentative, fortunately, or this story would end right here. When feasibility studies showed that the proposed PDA was theoretically possible, but very challenging, the answer changed to yes. Barely a year later, Palm's Tungsten T was launched.
Finally, someone—no one seems to remember who—came up with the idea of a "push-push" telescoping mechanism: Push once on the end of the stylus to collapse it into the Tungsten T, push again to extend it far enough to grab and remove it. In essence, it's a lot like a retractable ballpoint pen, which served as inspiration. "We went out and bought several Bic pens to see how they work," says engineer Joel Friedrick. "The problem with Bic pens, though, is that they're too big in diameter, so we couldn't use their mechanism." The Tungsten T's stylus, Friedrick explains, has an outside diameter of only 5.2 mm; the inside diameter, where a push-push mechanism needs to be, is even smaller
Industrial designers focus on making sure that a product exceeds customer's expectations in function and form while striving to create a truly innovative and unique design. They concentrate on how a consumer will interact with the product, how to build brand loyalty, and elicit an emotional response by imbuing style, novelty, and ingenuity into a product. Mechanical engineers pay heed to equally important concerns: Will a product break? Will it function as intended? Can we manufacture it efficiently and cost effectively?
With experience, however, I have come to realize that it does not have to be that way, especially when both professionals focus on shared interests instead of their positions.
When conflict erupts, it typically happens at this point, and stems from a failure to communicate.
http://machinedesign.com/ContentItem/69414/Whereartmeetsscience.aspx
brief article on the struggle and why it shouldnt be.
http://www.hiit.fi/~ekurvine/publ/design2004_149_kurvinen.pdf
Case study: How industrial design interacts with technology – a casestudy on design of a stone crusher
http://www.icsid.org/education/education/articles491.htm
THEM AND US? EXPLORING THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER & ENGINEERING DESIGNERS
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/9652/30543/01408763.pdf?arnumber=1408763
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The system, called GROW.1, was conceived by Samuel Cabot Cochran as part of his Industrial Design thesis project, and was later developed and produced by SMIT (Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology), the Brooklyn-based company he co-founded with his sister. What’s nice to see with this invention is that they have applied Lifecycle Cost Analysis and have thought about disassembly. The SMIT site describes this aspect in more detail:
The biomimicry part of GROW is that it seems to take its cues from how trees work in nature. After all, thousands of years of evolution can’t be wrong: if a more efficient design for gathering solar energy lay in developing huge slabs (see most existing solar panels installed on houses these days), trees ought to produce a single huge leaf! However, as trees very elegantly demonstrate, there are multiple forces at work in nature beyond the mandate to collect solar energy.
http://ciid.dk/solar-biomimicry
Philippe starck
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article1793832.ece
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