Leadership to Elevate Design at Scale: balancing conflicting imperatives

Little is known about how design leaders foster design excellence “at scale” within large organizations. To bridge this gap, this article reports on interviews with 59 senior design leaders. Using a paradox perspective to frame the findings uncovers major challenges when leading design teams inside large organizations. It also identifies five...

Optimal Design of Multilayer Optical Color Filters for Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Applications

Herein, the application of a comprehensive modeling framework that can help optimize the design of multilayered optical filters for coloring photovoltaic (PV) modules is presented based on crystalline silicon solar cells. To overcome technical issues related to the implementation of color filters (CFs) on PV modules, like glare and color...

Cockpit Design and Integration into the Flying V

The Flying V is an innovative new aircraft concept currently being developed by the faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology. This aircraft is a flying wing having a large sweep on the inner section, and a small sweep angle at the outer, giving the aircraft its characteristic V shape. The objective of this research is...

Prototyping Policy for Participation: An experience-based game that stimulates an intercultural dialogue about the dutch core values

As of October 2017 the Civic Integration Act (WI 2013) (Rijksoverheid, 2017) states that all non-EU newcomers that want to integrate in The Netherlands have to participate in the Participation statement procedure (PSP). As part of this procedure newcomers have to sign that they understand and respect the Dutch core values: freedom, equality and...

A change of perspective on Dutch asylum policies: redesigning citizenship for a cultural inclusive society

The European ‘refugee crisis’, which started during the summer of 2015, has challenged European countries and their societies on many levels. This graduation project focuses on the impact on the Dutch society and zooms in on the concerns of its policymakers, citizens and asylum seekers; refugees that have applied for asylum in the Netherlands....

A knowledge based engineering approach to support automatic design of wind turbine blades