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:
Dr Timoleon Kipouros is featured in CFMS Newsletter's article Shining the Spotlight. July 2018.
The Inclusive Design team, together with Unilever, have helped to improve the mobile shopping experience worldwide. February 2018.
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.
Munk DJ, Kipouros T, Vio GA, Parks GT & Steven GP (2018). On the effect of fluid-structure interactions and choice of algorithm in multi-physics topology optimisation, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 145: 32-54.
Dudley JJ, Schuff H & Kristensson PO (2018). Bare-handed 3D drawing in augmented reality, in Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. ACM Press.
Pradel P, Zhu Z, Bibb R & Moultrie J (2018). Investigation of design for additive manufacturing in professional design practice, Journal of Engineering Design, online.
Yang M, Rana & Evans S (2018). Engineering for Sustainable Value, in Value Creation through Engineering Excellence. Palgrave Macmillan.
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 Intelligent Human Systems Integration. Springer.
Jones NR, Eastwood JP & Jarrett JP (2017). Adapting Three-Dimensional Shock Control Bumps for Swept Flows, AIAA Journal, 55(3): 861-873.
Wynn DC & Clarkson PJ (2017). Process models in design and development, Research in Engineering Design, 28(4): 1-42.
Neroni MA, Vasconcelos LA & 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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