Teaching Design for Environment in Product Design Classes
The paper presents an approach to teaching design for environment (DFE) in the context of a product design and development course. The teaching method has been applied in our classes for graduate engineering, business, and design students. Our approach includes a step-by-step DFE process and utilize...
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| author | Baeriswyl, Michael C. Eppinger, Steven D. |
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| description | The paper presents an approach to teaching design for environment (DFE) in the context of a product design and development course. The teaching method has been applied in our classes for graduate engineering, business, and design students. Our approach includes a step-by-step DFE process and utilizes a recent Herman Miller chair as a case study to illustrate the successful application of each step in the process. The DFE process steps are based on our research at Herman Miller and on several published studies that investigated the integration of DFE into the product development process and which we assembled into the step-by-step DFE process. Furthermore, the teaching method includes a new approach to life cycle thinking by relating the product life cycle to the natural life cycle in order to from a closed-loop system. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/779062022-09-26T09:22:13Z Teaching Design for Environment in Product Design Classes Baeriswyl, Michael C. Eppinger, Steven D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division Sloan School of Management Eppinger, Steven D. Eppinger, Steven D. The paper presents an approach to teaching design for environment (DFE) in the context of a product design and development course. The teaching method has been applied in our classes for graduate engineering, business, and design students. Our approach includes a step-by-step DFE process and utilizes a recent Herman Miller chair as a case study to illustrate the successful application of each step in the process. The DFE process steps are based on our research at Herman Miller and on several published studies that investigated the integration of DFE into the product development process and which we assembled into the step-by-step DFE process. Furthermore, the teaching method includes a new approach to life cycle thinking by relating the product life cycle to the natural life cycle in order to from a closed-loop system. 2013-03-15T15:47:32Z 2013-03-15T15:47:32Z 2011-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-904670-28-5 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77906 Baeriswyl, Michael C. and Steven D. Eppinger. "Teaching Design for Environment in Product Design Classes." Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11), Impacting Society through Engineering Design, Vol. 8: Design Education, The Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby/Copenhagen, Denmark, 15.-19.08.2011, p. 140-150. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5747-8134 en_US http://www.designsociety.org/publication/30718/teaching_design_for_environment_in_product_design_classes Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11), Impacting Society through Engineering Design, Vol. 8: Design Education, Lyngby/Copenhagen, Denmark, 15.-19.08.2011 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Design Society Prof. Eppinger via Alex Caracuzzo |
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