Prototyping Design
- Abstract:聽Prototypes are complex and dynamic artifacts that shape social situations during product development. A ten-month applied ethnographic study of a footwear company recounts prototypes鈥 evolving role in communication between three
- Abstract:聽Design has been called one of the defining characteristics of engineering, and it has been long-argued that design is equally social and technical in practice. The field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has a research tradition
- Abstract:聽Prototyping is an essential part of product development in companies, and yet it is one of the least explored areas of design practice. There are limited ethnographic studies conducted within companies, specifically around the topic
- Abstract: 聽This paper explores the nature of prototypes from three diverse companies in the fields of consumer electronics, footwear, and medical devices. It is part of a larger qualitative research study developing a prototyping framework
- Abstract:聽Just as design is a fundamental part of engineering work, prototyping is an essential part of the design process. For many engineering design courses, students must develop a final prototype as part of the course requirements. And in
- Abstract: This paper works toward two goals. The first is to build on our previous work on 鈥渂ecoming an engineer鈥, in which we have attempted to understand engineering learning within a broader framework that focuses not only on the development of
- Abstract: 鈥淒esign is what engineers do, and the intelligent and thoughtful decision of the engineering curriculum should be the community鈥檚 first allegiance.鈥 Yet, we find that engineering design only underpins a small selection of undergraduate
- Abstract: Design is widely considered to be the central or聽distinguishing activity of engineering and yet it remains an聽insufficiently researched and understood topic. From the聽perspective of engineering education, where a 鈥渄isconnect
- Abstract: This is an empirical ethnographic study of how engineers in both undergraduate design courses and the professional workplace engage in engineering design. Our findings suggest that the organizational contexts constitute processes of design
- Abstract:聽This exploratory, ethnographic study compares engineering design in different organizational settings, as a way of examining the nature of claimed disconnects between professional engineering design practices and those taking place in