Design Specialty Research Articles

CAD Education Resource Platform for Mechanical Design and Manufacture

There are no corresponding CAD education resources for CAD courses for students at colleges and universities. A CAD education resource platform for mechanical design, manufacturing and automation speciality is developed. Feature-based modeling, Pro/TOOLKIT and Family Table provided by Pro/ENGINEER and Visual C++6.0 are utilized to develop three-dimensional standard part resources according to the newest Machinery Design Handbook. Its man-machine interface is developed that accords with engineering personnel's habit. The interface between Pro/ENGINEER and Access databases is developed to call the data in Access databases from Pro/ENGINEER. The platform is mainly used to provide standard part models for the students studying CAD related courses. It is intuitionistic and easy to use. The approach can also be applied to develop other education resource platforms.

A Research into the District Strategy on the Transportation Junction Terminal of High-Speed Railway - An Analysis of the Urban Design of the High-Speed Railway District in City of Wenling

As the social economy and urbanization develop rapidly, a new high-speed railway city construction is undergoing. Urban designing theories that lack of research and practice leads to immature designs of high-speed railway stations. Based on urban design cases currently undertaken and theories and practices from home and abroad, this thesis analyzes the specialty of urban design of the high-speed railway stations. This thesis points out the significance to propose a scientific and reasonable strategy of developing areas and producing energy, and points out the significance of pattern of land-using on this sort of design. In terms of the specialty of the development and design of high-speed railway stations, this thesis offers some valuable insights into future research and practice.

A Study of Training the Multilevel Industrial Designer Based on the Demand of Market Segments

The thesis aims for solving the misplace of supply and demand between personnel training and target market of industrial design specialty. It adapted the methods of investigation, interviewing, induction, etc. Through early market investigation, the design talents of market demand were subdivided into different levels. It summarized the relevant market requirements of professional quality and specific skills of different levels of professional talents. It studied the multi-level program planning, development, the innovation, practical link reform, the innovation environment and platform for the establishment. The resource pool of talent supply and demand was established by career planning for students. A “generic” training issue was found in current training mode and a systemic personnel training strategy of multi-level industrial design talent was proposed. The research results will be applied and improved in the process of training talents in the future.

ENGINEERING OBJECTS FOR COLLABORATION: STRATEGIES OF AMBIGUITY AND CLARITY AT KNOWLEDGE BOUNDARIES

Research suggests that boundary objects are useful for collaborations between members of distinct knowledge communities because their meanings are ambiguous. An objects’ ambiguity allows people to construct meanings that are relevant to them personally, and, consequently, helps groups to avoid conflict. Drawing from the literature on strategic ambiguity, we suggest that individuals may create objects to strategically foster either ambiguous or clear meanings. Using ethnographic observations of automotive engineers from various design specialties, we document why individuals are motivated to create objects whose meanings are either ambiguous or clear, we illustrate the various design activities they engage in to achieve these two strategies, and we show when individuals are likely to enact one type of strategy over the other.

Small sacral objects as a landscape determination in Croatia.

Occurence of small sacral architecture in Croatia dated from the period of the first record of Croats existence (from early Middle Ages onward). Regardless the place (urban agglomeration, rural area or open landscape such as fields, forests, meadows, mountains and the like) where people live they have always been followed by small sacral architectures. They are characterized by architecture and garden design, occurrence purpose and use, appearance place and almost always determination of the space it is located. The purpose is always related to a religion belief being the symbol of the Christian affiliation. Materials and methods used are common for investigating landscape values such as field touring and valorization, historical research of archives, photographs, clipping archive, recording new data,making surveys and the like. This paper aims to prove specific values of small sacral architecture within the landscape values of Croatia and represent this aspect of human intervention as a specialty of traditional belief and space design.

O arquiteto e o coordenador de projetos

The author discusses the role of the architect as a coordinator of multidisciplinary building-design teams. This research covers the complexity of contemporary real-estate properties and the challenging management and coordination of the design process using teams consisting of members qualified in an increasing range of design specialties. This article consolidates a series of technical articles and a book chapter the author has co-written in the past five years. It also includes a large bibliographical review on the subject and considerable empirical evidence collected at several building companies and architecture and design coordination offices. The author describes design coordination activities and the architect's role and responsibility in design coordination. Finally, the author discusses the skills and training necessary for him.

Effects of Display Characteristics and Individual Differences on Preferences of VDT Icon Design

This study explored the effects of display characteristics such as target/background color combination, single/simultaneous presentation, and individual differences by sex, and design specialty on preferences of VDT icon design. The results indicated black targets (black-on-white, black-on-yellow) and black backgrounds (red-on-black, yellow-on-black) were the most popular and white targets (white-on-red, white-on-black) and white backgrounds (blue-on-white, red-on-white) were the second most popular. As for the chromatic color combinations, yellow-on-blue was the most favored. Subjects rated color combinations under single presentation higher than those under simultaneous presentation. Women rated purplish targets and rated purplish and blue backgrounds higher than men. Subjects with design background favored black more either as a target or background, but they favored turquoise less than those without design background.

Problems of Cartographic Design in Geographic Information Systems for Transportation

Geographic information systems for transportation (GIS-T) seek to integrate the geospatial approach of GIS and the tabular approach of conventional transportation analysis. GIS-T deals with such topics as network analysis, linear reference systems, travel demand modeling, and intelligent transportation systems. Conventional cartographic treatment of route features is reviewed in the context of the mapping challenges introduced by GIS-T. Problems in the visualization of complex linear data are identified and examined as cartographic design issues. Cartographic requirements are specified for mapping route-based data and basic design issues are identified. The representation of complex route-based data layers is posed as an undeveloped specialty of cartographic design. Some of the issues involved in developing such fundamental principles are summarized and potential avenues of research are suggested.