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 thirteen distinct groups, addressing a broad range of methodological approaches, professional practices and industry sectors:
Inclusive Design team, together with Unilver, have helped to improve mobile shopping experience worldwide. Further information is available here.
The EDC publishes a new website offering guidelines to improve the clarity of e-commerce images. November 2017.
Tariq Masood receives the prestigious Telford Premium award for the best journal paper: Towards the future-proofing of UK infrastructure. October 2017.
Report on Engineering Better Care published by the Royal Academy of Engineering. September 2017.
John Clarkson delivers Keynote address to ICED17 in Vancouver. August 2017.
Dudley, J.J., Schuff, H. and Kristensson, P.O. (2018). Bare-handed 3D drawing in augmented reality. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2018). ACM Press: forthcoming.
Munk, D.J., Kipouros, T., Vio, G.A. Parks, G.T. & Steven, G.P. (2018). Multiobjective and multi-physics topology optimization using an updated smart normal constraint bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization method. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (2018) 57: 665.
Patrick Pradel, Zicheng Zhu, Richard Bibb & James Moultrie (2018) Investigation of design for additive manufacturing in professional design practice, Journal of Engineering Design, Published online: 22 Mar 2018.
Yang M., Rana P., Evans S. (2018) Engineering for Sustainable Value. In: Zhang Y., Gregory M. (eds) Value Creation through Engineering Excellence. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Revell K., Langdon P., Bradley M., Politis I., Brown J., Stanton N. (2018) User Centered Ecological Interface Design (UCEID): A Novel Method Applied to the Problem of Safe and User-Friendly Interaction Between Drivers and Autonomous Vehicles. In: Karwowski W., Ahram T. (eds) Intelligent Human Systems Integration. IHSI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 722. Springer, Cham.
Jones, N. R., Eastwood, J. P. & Jarrett, J. P. (2017) Adapting Three-Dimensional Shock Control Bumps for Swept Flows, AIAA Journal 55(3): 861-873.
Hao Qin, Hongwei Wang, Aylmer L. Johnson (2017) A RFBSE model for capturing engineers’ useful knowledge and experience during the design process, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 44: 30-43.
Wynn, D. C. & Clarkson, P. J. (2017). Process models in design and development, Research in Engineering Design, 28(4): 1-42.
Neroni, M. A., Vasconcelos, L. A. & Crilly, N. (2017). Computer-Based ‘Mental Set’ Tasks: An Alternative Approach to Studying Design Fixation, Journal of Mechanical Design, 139(7), 071102.
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