Finding the land, planting first seeds: lead user research in early stage design for intelligent ecosystems

This contribution explores the potential of lead user research for early-stage designing for intelligent ecosystems through a literature review and a single case study concerning a lead user research initiative on blood pressure monitoring. The results suggest advantages of executing lead user research in early-stage designing for intelligent...

Three Approaches to Design Engineering in the Health Domain: A Systemic Perspective

This paper proposes a categorization of existing approaches to healthcare-related engineering design based on systems thinking principles. Three existing approaches to healthcare-related engineering design are isolated which contribute differently to health systems fundamental purposes and interconnections. The three approaches are labeled as ...

A Fully Automated Chain from MDAO Problem Formulation to Workflow Execution

In this paper, a methodology to connect the multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization (MDAO) problem formulation tool KADMOS and the commercial Process Integration and Design Optimization (PIDO) platform Optimus is presented. This capability has been developed in the context of the EU project AGILE. The aim of this development is to...

Model-based systems engineering to design collaborative robotics applications

Novel robot technologies are becoming available to automate more complex tasks, more flexibly, and collaborating with humans. Methods and tools are needed in the automation and robotics industry to develop and integrate this new breed of robotic systems. In this paper, the ISE&PPOOA methodology for Model-Based Systems Engineering is...

Structured automated code checking through structural components and systems engineering

This paper presents a proposal to employ the design computing methodology proposed as StructuralComponents (Rolvink et al [6] and van de Weerd et al [7]) as a method to perform a digital verification process to fulfil the requirements related to structural design and engineering as part of a building design. In current design and engineering...

Structuring of early design decisions in large infrastructure tenders: How to find the optimal design?

Decision making in the tender phase of large infrastructural projects is a complex task for contractors as they have to make design decisions with long term effects and based on complex client requirements. Further complexity is added by the constrained environment of a tender and the uncertainty of winning the tender. As the context and the...

Flexible gas infrastructures

A simulation based design framework for large scale infrastructure systems design

This paper discusses an enhanced use of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) in the design cycle of large scale infrastructure systems. After a short review of the use of M&S in the current systems design process, we identify some issues in multi-actor design environment. A Simulation Based Design (SBD) framework is proposed to tackle these issues...

Designing socio-technical systems: Structures and processes

The Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management (SEPAM) MSc curriculum taught at Delft University of Technology focuses on the design of socio-technical systems (STS). We teach our students to structure design activities by considering what we call the TIP aspects: Technical systems, Institutions, and decision-making Processes. Students...

Integrating sustainable development into the undergraduate engineering curriculum through a mandatory first year engineering design course at the University of Toronto

This paper discusses how Engineering Science, an undergraduate division within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, has worked to foster engineers that can meaningfully contribute to sustainable development (SD). Specifically, Engineering Science has developed ESC102: Praxis II, a core course required for...

Industrial ecosystems as a social network

With solid theoretical support from industrial ecology, an increasing number of industrial ecosystems (including eco-industrial parks and industrial symbiosis) have been created all over the world. There is no doubt that the Kalundborg symbiosis, which has steadily operates for thirty years, is our successful exemplar, although some problems...

Utilizing Uncertainty Multidisciplinary Design Optimization for Conceptual Design of Space Systems

With progress of space technology and increase of space mission demand, requirements for robustness and reliability of space systems are ever-increasing. For the whole space mission life cycle, the most important decisions are made in the conceptual design phase, so it is very crucial to take uncertainties into consideration in this initial...

A Case Study: Application of the Systems Engineering Modeling in the early phases of a Complex Space System Project

There is increased recognition of the role of systems engineering in reducing the risk (technical, cost, and schedule) on complex space systems development and integration projects. A number of international systems engineering standards have been published in the last five years (ISO 15288, IEEE 1220, and EIA 632). Closer to the space domain,...