Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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An Investigation of Adaptive Expertise and Transfer of Design Process Knowledge
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)Transfer of knowledge is a common and ongoing area of investigation in many education studies. The topic is of central importance to the education community because it enables educators to ... -
Type Synthesis of Parallel Mechanisms With Multiple Operation Modes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)There are usually several motion patterns having the same degrees of freedom (DOF). For example, planar motion, spherical motion, and spatial translation are motion patterns with 3 DOF. An f-DOF ... -
Design Process Sequencing With Competent Genetic Algorithms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)In product design, it is critical to perform project activities in an appropriate sequence. Otherwise, essential information will not be available when it is needed, and activities that depend ... -
Enhancing Design Research in the Context of Design Education
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)Research into design theory and methodology is central to postgraduate design education. It has been widely acknowledged in the literature that a key activity in ensuring the quality of research ... -
A Competence-Based Approach to Sustainable Innovation Teaching: Experiences Within a New Engineering Program
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)Innovation and sustainability are two areas upon which Scandinavian countries place a great deal of attention, in order to maintain strong positions in the global market and strong welfare ... -
Visualization, Intuition, and Mathematics Metrics as Predictors of Undergraduate Engineering Design Performance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)Many undergraduate engineering students perform relatively poorly in design courses, even though they are otherwise academically very strong. Some average students perform exceptionally well in ... -
Creativity and the Use of CAD Tools: Lessons for Engineering Design Education From Industry
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)This paper presents an exploratory study that transfers lessons on creativity and the use of CAD tools from an industry case study to engineering design education. The participant-observation ... -
Barriers to Creativity in Engineering Education: A Study of Instructors and Students Perceptions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)This paper studies “creativity” in engineering education, by examining the perception of instructors and students. We aim to identify factors that impede a creative environment (creativity blockers). ... -
A Study to Understand Perceptual Discrepancies Using Visual Illusions and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)There are often discrepancies in how a product is perceived in the different display media employed in typical product development processes. Product developers in many cases rely on different ... -
Teaching High School Students and College Freshmen Product Development by Deterministic Design With PREP
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)This paper describes an effective method for teaching design in a deterministic manner that is especially effective for under-represented students (e.g., culture, race, gender, physical disability, ... -
A Redundant Parallel Spherical Mechanism for Robotic Wrist Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)Parallel kinematic structures constitute promising alternative architectures, when compared to their serial counterparts, for developing positioning and orienting robotic mechanisms. The present author, ... -
Self-Reflection: Lessons Learned in a New Product Development Class
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)New product development (NPD) classes based around problem-based learning and mediated by design coaches from industry provide an effective vehicle for authentic learning and realistic design ... -
Design Integrated in the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum: Assessment of the Engineering Clinics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)At Rowan University, design has been infused into the curriculum through an eight-semester course sequence called the Engineering Clinics. Through this experience, students learn the art and ... -
Enhancing the Quality Function Deployment Conceptual Design Tool
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)The quality function deployment (QFD) conceptual design tool has been of significant benefit to customer satisfaction, while reducing the associated design time and cost. Observation of novice ... -
Design Engineering Education
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)The Design Education Committee (DEC) of the Design Engineering Division is pleased to have the opportunity to provide papers for this special issue of the Journal of Mechanical Design. With ... -
An Industrial Case Study: Identification of Competencies of Design Engineers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)This paper describes the findings from an empirical study carried out with engineers in senior roles within a large company manufacturing complex products. This research aimed to identify the ... -
Effects of Industrial Experience and Coursework During Sophomore and Junior Years on Student Learning of Engineering Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)While prior work indicates that seniors near the end of their capstone design course know more about design than first-year students, it is unclear where this knowledge is gained. We study ... -
Assessing Student Team Performance in Industry Sponsored Design Projects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)Although cooperative learning in a team setting is a common approach for integrating problem-based learning into undergraduate science and engineering, standard assessment tools do not exists to ... -
Articulating a Learning Objective
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)The distinction between science and engineering is clear. Science is the process of understanding what is. Engineering is the process of creating what has not been. Such descriptions have been ... -
Kinematic and Geometric Analysis of a Pure-Rolling Epicyclic Train
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)This paper reports an innovative design of epicyclic (planetary) cam trains based on pure-rolling contact, intended to overcome the drawbacks of gear trains, such as Coulomb friction and backlash. ...