Case study method for design research: A justification

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 495-503

  Teegavarapu, Sudhakar ^a   Summers, Joshua D ^a   Mocko, Gregory M ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study research; Design research; Developing design methods tools

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK STUDY; CASE STUDY RESEARCH; DESIGN RESEARCH; DESIGN RESEARCHERS; DEVELOPING DESIGN METHODS/TOOLS; QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS; RESEARCH STRATEGY; STUDY METHODS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DESIGN;

RESEARCH;

EID: 81155154358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2008-49980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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