Thursday 02nd of September 2010 — Friday 03rd of September 2010
Venue and location information: NTNU, TRONDHEIM, Norway
the 12th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education will take place 2-3 September 2010, and will be organised by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway in partnership with the Design Education Special Interest Group (DESIG) of the Design Society and the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED). The conference in 2010 will address the relationship between design education and design research.
This year's conference theme, "When Design Education and Design Research meet . . . ." aims to provide a platform for participants to explore how scientific research and education within the engineering and product design arena do, can or should strengthen each other. This theme has been chosen as it has remained relatively unexplored in previous years' conferences; yet, design research has, especially in the past decade, grown to become a mature scientific discipline.
Conference topics include:
- Industrial relevance of design education
- Research-based education
- International collaboration
- Creating scientific attitudes among design students
- Linking Bachelor, Master and PhD level education
- New design education paradigms
- Synergies between engineering and product design education
- Teaching Design Methodology
- Best practices in design education
- Scientific methods for course evaluation
- Professional perspectives for design students
- The role of design within a technical university environment
- Technology transfer through design
The Call for Abstracts is NOW OPEN. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted through the Conference Management System at https://www.conftool.net/epde10/ by 11th December 2009.
For full information please see http://www.iepde.org/epde10/
more info: www.iepde.org/epde10/
Wednesday 25th of August 2010 — Friday 27th of August 2010
Venue and location information: Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden
Chalmers University of Technology and the Wingquist Laboratory welcome you to the 8th biannual conference, NordDesign 2010, on methods and tools for product and production development. This conference serves as a Nordic complement to the large European and American conferences within the field of Engineering Design and Product Development, but participants from other countries are welcomed.
Conference topics include:
● Product development
- Platform based development and configuration
- Design for life cycle
- Information management issues throughout the product lifecycle
- Conceptualization and innovative thinking
● Industrial design engineering
- Multidisciplinary collaborative design
- Human machine interaction
● Engineering design, Design methodology, Design for X
- Design for assembly
- Assembly and joining sequence optimization
- Robust design
- Virtual product and production system development and visualization
- Geometrical interface configuration and optimization
● Design research approaches and methodologies
● Industrial case studies
● Engineering design education
Submission of abstracts and papers: Those wishing to present papers at NordDesign 2010 should submit an extended abstract consisting of two A4 pages (Times New Roman 12). The abstract should fit into one of the conference topics, it should be written in English and should be structured with the following sections: Motivation, research question, research method, analysis and results, conclusion, 5 key references.
All submissions should be uploaded through the conference management system as PDF files. See link: www.conftool.net/norddesign2010
Key dates:
● Call for abstracts - September 24, 2009
● Abstract submission - November 1, 2009
● Notification of acceptance - December 1, 2009 ● Submission of full papers - March 15, 2010
● Feedback to authors - April 15, 2010
● Publish ready papers due - May 15, 2010
● Conference - August 25-27, 2010
more info: www.norddesign2010.se
Thursday 22nd of July 2010 — Friday 23rd of July 2010
Venue and location information: Engineering Design Center, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dependency and Structure Modeling (DSM) originates from the methods that have come about from using the Design Structure Matrix and similar methods (matrix-based as well as graph based). These methods have proven very valuable in designing complex systems, optimizing technical systems and product architectures and organizations, densely networked processes and large market structures. With its ability to manage complexity by looking into the structure of a system, it has led to many other advances and methodologies nowadays.
The International Dependency and Structure (DSM) Conference is the annual forum to discuss, how complex systems can be managed by understanding, modeling and designing the dependencies in a complex system. During the conference, practitioners, academics and researchers, and software developers of DSM-related tools can exchange experiences, development results, trends, and develop new ideas to complexity management in all kinds of industries from different perspectives.
more info: www.dsm-conference.org
Monday 19th of July 2010 — Tuesday 20th of July 2010
Venue and location information: University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, United Kingdom
The importance of innovative processes in design and engineering for business success is increasingly recognised in today's competitive environment. Academia and management need to gain a more profound understanding of these processes, develop better management approaches and exploit the still hidden potentials to improve the business.
The aim of this first international conference is to showcase recent trends in modelling and management of engineering processes, explore potential synergies between different modelling approaches, gather and discuss future challenges for the management of engineering processes and discuss future research areas and topics. Based on the latest achievements in this and related fields, we aim to landmark the research map for Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes for 2020.
Please note also:
- Immediately after the conference there will be the Kick-off Meeting of the European Learning Group on Engineering Process Management (21st July 2010)
- The 12th International DSM Conference will take place on 22-23 July 2010 - also in Cambridge
Important dates:
15 August 2009: Call for Papers
15 January 2010: Submission of full paper (12 pages); one of the reviewers will be from industry
15 February 2010: Notification of paper acceptance
15 March 2010: Deadline for camera-ready version
31 March 2010: Advance registration ends
15 June 2010: Late registration ends
19-20 July 2010: MMEP 2010 Conference
21 July 2010: Kick-off Workshop European Industrial Learning Group Engineering Process Management
more info: www-edc.eng.cam.ac.uk/mmep2010/
Monday 05th of July 2010 — Friday 09th of July 2010
Venue and location information: Grenoble, France
The Doctoral Course of the International Design Observation Network is jointly organised by the Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France (Dr. Eric Blanco), and Luleå University of Technology, Sweden (Dr. Peter Törlind and Asa Ericsson). It consists of several web seminars (June 2010) and co-located workshops in July (05.-09.07.2010).
The iDON doctoral seminar aims to give PhD students the practical skills in designing research studies, performing observations and analyzing empirical data. The seminar will focus on the observation of teams to understand the complex social interaction between members in a design team. The main approach is built upon seminars and reflective workshops lead by experienced researchers within the area of methodologies for field studies and design observations.
Besides the issues of when, how and what to observe, other concerns are:
- Differences and similarities in field work and design experiments
- Application of observations in different research fields
- The role of the researcher
- Research quality
- Hypotheses, research purposes, research questions
- Mesaurements, units of analysis, coding schemes
The iDon seminar is an opportunity to share best practises with researchers that are active within various disciplines within the design science field, and to build a network among research fellows.
Co- chair:
Dr. Eric Blanco, Grenoble / Dr. Peter Törlind & Åsa Ericsson, Luleå
Key dates:
Application by e-mail at idon-course@grenoble-inp.fr: No later than 10th of MAY 2010.
Acceptance: 15th MAY 2010
Full registration and payment online: 1st JUNE 2010
Web seminar: JUNE 2010
Colocated workshop and seminars in Grenoble 5th -9th JULY 2010
more info: www.cluster-gospi.fr/
