Relating design process to quality: A virtual design of experiments approach

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 483-490

  Sobek II, Durward K ^a   Jain, Vikas K ^b  

^a Idaho National Laboratory   (United States)

^b Isotec International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational models; Design education; Design methodology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EDUCATION; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING;

DESIGN EDUCATION; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; SYSTEM-LEVEL DESIGN WORK;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 34249866621     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2712215     Document Type: Article

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