Increasing innovation in multi-function systems: Evaluation and experimentation of two ideation methods for design

Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2009, DETC2009

Volumn 8, Issue PART B, 2010, Pages 965-983

  Weaver, Jason M ^a   Kuhr, Rachel ^a   Wang, Dennis ^a   Crawford, Richard H ^a   Wood, Kristin L ^a   Jensen, Dan ^b   Linsey, Julie S ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept generation; Design by analogy; Design of experiments; Design principles; Reconfigurable products; Transformation design; WordNet; WordTrees

Indexed keywords

ANOVA ANALYSIS; CONCEPT GENERATION; CONTROL GROUPS; DESIGN METHOD; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DESIGN TEAM; ENGINEERING COMMUNITY; FACTORIAL EXPERIMENT; FAR-FIELD; GRAPHICAL STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MULTI-FUNCTIONS; MULTIPLE SET; NOVELTY OF INNOVATION; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RELATED WORD; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; TRANSFORMATION DESIGNS; WORDNET;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; INNOVATION; MACHINE DESIGN; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MILITARY VEHICLES; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 77953769178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2009-86403     Document Type: Conference Paper

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