Biomimetics applies principles and strategies abstracted from biological systems to
engineering and technological design. With a huge potential for innovation, biomimetics …

1.1 Purpose The purpose of this report is to provide a cursory description of some of the
leading Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies used in industry today. It …

We compare five industrial software architecture design methods and we extract from their
commonalities a general software architecture design approach. Using this general …

Product design is one of the most important factors to introduce the circular economy model.
In this discipline, the decisions made influence the whole life cycle of the product, since the …

This paper studies the influence of the type of method, intuitive or logical, used for idea-
generation on the final creative results. An experiment was developed in which 16 design …

If you are not already in a management position, chances are you soon will be. According to
the Bureau of Statistics, the fastest growing areas of employment for engineers are in …

Composite decisions consist of interconnected parts or subdecisions and correspond to a
composite (composable, modular, decomposable) system. The composite decision …

In this paper we develop a gate level model that allows us to determinethe best and worst
case delay when there is dominant interconnectcoupling. Assuming that the gate input …

We compare five industrial software architecture design methods and we extract from their
commonalities a general software architecture design approach. Using this general …

Approaches to supporting creativity are diverse and numerous. Making sense of these
methods, including the comparative benefits of one approach over another is highly …