2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 FORECASTS ON RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING DESIGN THEORY, TOOLS AND METHODOLOGY AND ITS IMPACT ON PRODUCT DESIGN AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION Mr Inno Odira, Dr. J N Keraita, and Mr Sum Kpyegon Faculty Design Teaching Forum (DeKUT)

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 OUTLINE Source: Introduction Issues Engineering design research pointers Engineering research forecasts Conclusion

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 INTRODUCTION Source: Design, Engineering design, product development and innovation. A socially mediated technical activity that creates products, systems and services. Principal aspects of Engineering design Innovation Socio-technical aspects Computing and IT infrastructure Engineering design research Focus on instrumenting, understanding supporting and improving design practice

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 ISSUES New products or services, which are developed on a regular basis, are one of the main factors for sustainable success of companies. However, attention to this area is wanting. Progression of design and manufacturing towards predictive product realization is the way to go Design practitioners, Engineering educators and curriculum developers must anticipate dramatic changes in engineering design practice and adapt. We therefore forecast on various scenarios of Engineering design for the future based on current scientific and socio- technical trends

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 ENGINEERING RESEARCH POINTERS-1 Innovation

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 REVIEW ON ENGINEERING RESEACH POINTERS-2 Socio-Technical aspects

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 REVIEW ON ENGINEERING RESEACH POINTERS-3 Computing and IT infrastructure and Design informatics 2D CAD systems 3D CAD Systems 4D- Rapid prototyping Virtual prototyping CAE (Ansys, Comsol etc.)

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 INDUSTRY FORCASTS: COMMON THEMES-1 New developments in biology, bio-engineering, computers, etc. will directly affect what we design (products) and how we design (process, tools). Future products will be typified by complex structure and function but simpler usage (interface). Consumer products will be customized for each user. Customers will have direct involvement in product design. Computer models will be embedded in delivered products for customization and “soft” reconfiguration. Design teams, manufacturing resources and customers will be globally distributed.

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 INDUSTRY FORCASTS: COMMON THEMES-2 Designs will be constrained by new and stricter regulations related to: emissions, noise, recycling, energy, global warming, terrorism… Designs will be driven by public demand for: higher reliability, better safety. Designs will be driven by the desire to seek products least vulnerable to international competition New markets in developing countries will offer new opportunities but require consideration of greater cultural and economic diversity Companies will do system of systems integration

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 INDUSTRY FORCASTS: Computing Environments THEME-1 In 2030 designers, distributed across disciplinary, geographical and temporal boundaries, will work synergistically within design environments that enable designers to focus on design issues without being distracted by the underlying computing infrastructure encompass all stages of the product life cycle operate at multiple levels of abstraction enhance the creativity of design teams leading towards innovation- guided design are capable of spawning tasks transparently; automatically refining designs or providing support, executing integrated multi-scale simulations/analyses

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 INDUSTRY FORCASTS: Computing Environments THEME-2 Facilitate communications with other human designers, web services, repositories, catalogs, and digital libraries as needed. Enable the generation of solutions based on relationships among the design requirements and their physical actualization and context of use Interact with designers in human terms and language; no distinction in human-human, human-computer, computer-computer communications Future design tools and methods will not only support analysis and decision making from a technological point of view, but will also account for psychological, sociological, and anthropological factors based on fundamental understanding of these factors and their interaction. Boundaries between resources, people, and information/knowledge will disappear.

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 DESIGN INFORMATION INFORMATICS - 1 Engineering informatics: Flexible, extensible ontologies for devices, functions, behaviour, embodiment Mechanisms to inter-relate ontologies Information exchange standards Information management at meaningful levels of granularity Building blocks & standardized APIs to repositories and libraries

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 DESIGN INFORMATION INFORMATICS - 2 Models to support Smart tools: knowledge capture/re-use, smart search engines Knowledge Representation for Design Synthesis “fast” approximate models to support preliminary design exploration tools for analysis with incomplete information/uncertainty Conjoint exploration of the Requirement Space and Solution Space Multi-scale models for shallow and-or deep granular searching Sophisticated knowledge representation structures to bridge CAD. CAE, AI

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 CONCLUSION Design of the total experience Design of System of systems Intelligent design tools Interactive interaction spaces Collaborative environment System of systems design Cyber infrastructure MBA equivalent for engineers- MED(Masters in Engineering Design). Moving from tools and methods that make incremental improvements to design quality, cycle time and cost, to high risk, high pay-off research.

2 nd G2G Technical Seminar – May 2013 THE END THANK YOU