Why does anything have to change? A manufacturing company’s most critical product decisions are made every day in design reviews. And if you assess the state of what a design review looks like today, ...

Have you ever thought about how and why something was designed? Who was considered a “stakeholder” for the design? And what biases are baked within the process of designing something? These are some ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Jan. 6, 2010) -- The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center Huntsville is using cutting-edge computer technology to speed up and improve the quality of standard facility designs.

Researchers at RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability have developed PhoenixDFR, a software tool that helps engineers design products with remanufacturing in mind. The tool uses real-world ...

Watch as a group of young engineers use the design process to build a bike trailer. Watch as a group of young engineers at the Acera School use the design process to build a trailer to transport ...

Why a majority of engineers are looking to implement sustainability in their design approaches. How to design for sustainability, from reuse and recycling to power efficiency. Creating a new supply ...

My July column addressed the fact that some design engineers are nonresponsive or inconsistently responsive to commissioning design review comments. This can diminish the value of design-phase ...

Customers have been frustrated, injured and even killed by confusing instructions, unclear operating procedures and poorly designed controls. In some cases, these interfaces and instructions were ...

Producing a successful part requires a process that transforms raw materials into a final product that satisfies design requirements while taking into account both technological and geometric ...

Researchers at the University of Surrey have proposed a computational approach that can provide aerodynamic drag data more ...