For more than twenty-five years the Cambridge Engineering Design Centre (EDC) has undertaken fundamental and applied research to generate knowledge that improves the design process. Our work is driven both by intellectual curiosity and industrial collaboration, resulting in understanding, methods and tools that shape design theory and design practice.
The EDC engages in knowledge transfer activities through publications, education, training and ongoing engagements with government and other public institutions. More generally, we promote the value of engineering design in the UK and beyond, and the value of design education and design research.
The EDC represents ten distinct groups, addressing a broad range of methodological approaches, professional practices and industry sectors:
Matteo Zallio wins silver at the 14th International Design Awards for his products Handy, Silver in Design For Society, and Tailt, Silver in Outdoor And Exercise Equipment. January 2020.
John Dudley has won the CIUK 2020 Jacky Pallas Memorial Award and has been invited to give a talk at the the CIUK 2020 conference on 3 December 2020.
Eugenia O'Kelly and James Ward's research into face masks featured in The Guardian. October 2020.
Dr Tariq Masood awarded the IfM Postdoctoral Award 2020 in Teaching Excellence. September 2020.
Journal of Mechanical Design Editors' Choice Award for Managing Sociotechnical Complexity in Engineering Design Projects, co-authored by John Clarkson (see below). June 2020.
John Clarkson is welcomed as a part-time full professor to the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft. May 2020.
The Improving Improvement team has developed a rapid start version of their toolkit for immediate use. April 2020.
Skrypchuk, L., Langdon, P., Sawyer, B.D. & Clarkson, P.J. (2020). Unconstrained design: improving multitasking with in-vehicle information systems through enhanced situation awareness. Theoretical issues in ergonomics science, 21(2), 183-219.
Ma, X., Park, C. & Moultrie, J. (2020). Factors for eliminating plastic in packaging: The European FMCG experts’ view. Journal of Cleaner Production, 256, 120492.
Kristensson, P. O., Lilley, J., Black, R. & Waller, A. (2020). A Design Engineering Approach for Quantitatively Exploring Context-Aware Sentence Retrieval for Nonspeaking Individuals with Motor Disabilities. CHI, 1-11.
Gross, J.C., Seshadri, P. & Parks, G. (2020). Optimisation with Intrinsic Dimension Reduction: A Ridge Informed Trust-Region Method. AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, 0157.
Cook, L.W., Willcox, K.E. & Jarrett, J.P. (2020). Design optimization using multiple dominance relations. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 121(11), 2481-2502.
Crilly, N. & Moroşanu Firth, R. (2019). Creativity and fixation in the real world: Three case studies of invention, design and innovation. Design Studies, 64, 169–212.
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