Design engineering competencies: Future requirements and predicted changes in the forthcoming decade

Design Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-153

  Robinson, Mark A ^a   Sparrow, Paul R ^b   Clegg, Chris ^a   Birdi, Kamal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creativity; Design behaviour; Design cognition; Innovation; Psychology of design

Indexed keywords

CREATIVITY; DESIGN BEHAVIOR; DESIGN COGNITION; PSYCHOLOGY OF DESIGN;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 11244306561     PISSN: 0142694X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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