...Guanglu Zhang; Ayush Raina; Ethan Brownell; Jonathan Cagan Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) offer new opportunities for human–AI cooperation in engineering design. Human trust in AI is a crucial factor in ensuring an effective human–AI cooperation, and several approaches to enhance human...

... applications [ 11 ]. This case aims to solve an engineering design problem: How might we rectify the loud sonic boom generated when trains travel at high speeds through tunnels in atmospheric conditions [ 11 , 12 ]? For potential design solutions to this problem, engineers explored structures in other design...

...Ji Han; Serhad Sarica; Feng Shi; Jianxi Luo In the past two decades, there has been increasing use of semantic networks in engineering design for supporting various activities, such as knowledge extraction, prior art search, idea generation, and evaluation. Leveraging large-scale pre-trained graph...

...Binyang Song; Nicolás F. Soria Zurita; Hannah Nolte; Harshika Singh; Jonathan Cagan; Christopher McComb As artificial intelligence (AI) assistance tools become more ubiquitous in engineering design, it becomes increasingly necessary to understand the influence of AI assistance on the design process...

...Ethan Brownell; Jonathan Cagan; Kenneth Kotovsky Prior research has demonstrated how the average characteristics of a team impact team performance. The relative contribution of team members has been largely ignored, especially in the context of engineering design. In this work, a behavioral study...

...Jian Xie; Youyi Bi; Zhenghui Sha; Mingxian Wang; Yan Fu; Noshir Contractor; Lin Gong; Wei Chen Understanding the impact of engineering design on product competitions is imperative for product designers to better address customer needs and develop more competitive products. In this paper, we propose...

... ( 6 ), pp. 81 – 83 . 10.1109/4236.643942 [49] La Rocca , G. , 2012 , “ Knowledge Based Engineering: Between AI and CAD. Review of a Language Based Technology to Support Engineering Design ,” Adv. Eng. Inform. , 26 ( 2 ), pp. 159 – 179 . 10.1016/j.aei.2012.02.002 [50] La...

... abstractly. But if this test is truly meant to be a test of engineering design skills, we would like (and expect) the domain specific knowledge gained through learned experiences to assist engineers in outperforming their nonengineering cohorts and validate that we are indeed measuring what we intend...

... requiring minimal time, cost, and effort for the designers. design fixation engineering design mental models physical models prototyping Sunk Cost Effect Idea generation plays an especially vital role in determining the quality of the final design [ 1 ]. Designers rely on an assortment...

... function structure product modeling design cognition engineering design communication The overall goal of this research is to understand the limitations of current function modeling methods and to improve the usefulness of function models for conceptual design and reverse engineering...

... environments, we examined the pattern of tool use in 43 interdisciplinary engineering design teams enrolled in a full-semester product realization course. Teams worked all semester on a single project, with each team being assigned a different industry-sponsored project. Group meetings were video-recorded...

... to robust optimal solution(s). We pick up a number of Bi-objective engineering design problems from the standard literature and study them in the proposed robust optimization framework to demonstrate the enhanced performance. A cross-validation study is performed to analyze whether the solutions obtained...

... No. DETC2004-57452. Hazelrigg , G. A. , 2003 , “ Thoughts on Model Validation for Engineering Design ,” ASME Design Technical Conference , Chicago, IL , Sept. 2–6, Paper No. DETC2003/DTM-48632. Oberkampf , W. , and Barone , M. , 2004 , “ Measures of Agreement Between Computation...

... released IDEFØ as a standard for Function Modelling in FIPS Publication 183). Reich , Y. , 1995 , “ The Study of Design Research Methodology ,” ASME J. Mech. Des. 1050-0472 , 117 , pp. 211 – 214 . Dixon , J. R. , 1994 , “ Recent Developments in Engineering Design Research...

... to allot time to different design activities than first-year students at the end of a hands-on introduction to engineering design course. For the remaining four aspects of design process knowledge assessed—namely, identifying the requirements for a project at the project’s outset, making decisions...

...Maria C. Yang; Jorge G. Cham Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of sketching in design cognition, particularly in the early stages of engineering design. The goal of this preliminary study is to consider the role of a designer’s sketching ability and to examine the potential link...

... simulation process in order to improve the overall computation efficiency. They are then found to be a valuable tool to support a wide scope of activities in modern engineering design, especially design optimization. This work reviews the state-of-the-art metamodel-based techniques from a practitioner’s...

...Jason Matthew Aughenbaugh; Christiaan J. J. Paredis Engineering design decisions inherently are made under risk and uncertainty. The characterization of this uncertainty is an essential step in the decision process. In this paper, we consider imprecise probabilities (e.g., intervals...

...Michael J. Scott; Erik K. Antonsson Multicriteria decision support methods are common in engineering design. These methods typically rely on a summation of weighted attributes to accomplish trade-offs among competing objectives. It has long been known that a weighted sum, when used...

...Jie Wan, Graduate Research Assistant; Sundar Krishnamurty, Associate Professor Focusing on the efforts towards a consistent preference representation in decision based engineering design, this paper presents a learning-based comparison and preference modeling process. Through effective integration...