I'm a design methodologist and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. I've been called long-winded, a meritocrat, a secular humanist, and a positivist, as if these were bad things. Go figure. My CV is online at http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/I/cv.html. Oddly, I can't link it in to this software in the obvious place because its developers seem to think that CVs only come in PDF. Stupid, isn't it?
Design Theory
Designing as Balance-Seeking Instead of Problem-Solving (with Damian Rogers and Nathan L. Eng), Mechanical Engineering Publications and Research (2009)
Design as...: Thinking of What Design Might Be (with Nathan L. Eng), Mechanical Engineering Publications and Research (2007)
In this speculative paper, we will consider the question "What is Design?" Instead of a...
Mereotopology for product modeling, Mechanical Engineering Publications and Research (2002)
Mereotopology is the branch of logic that treats the qualitative formalisation of parthood and connection...
An axiomatic theory of engineering design information (with R. D. Venter), Mechanical Engineering Publications and Research (1992)
Recent research in design theory has sought to formalize the engineering design process without particular...
Design Methodology
Process Mapping to Understand the Role of Human Factors in Design (with Aileen J. Lim and W. Patrick Neumann), Industrial Engineering Publications and Research (2009)
Integrating human factors considerations into the design of production systems can improve productivity and quality...
Visualizing Information in the Early Stages of Engineering Design (with Nathan L. Eng and Janaka S. Weerasinghe), Mechanical Engineering Publications and Research (2008)
The early stages of engineering design are the most crucial for successful product development, yet...
Computational intelligence in product design engineering: Review and trends (with Andrew Kusiak), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews (2007)
Product design engineering is undergoing a transformation from informal and largely experience-based discipline to a...
Visualising early engineering design information with diagrams (with R. H. Bracewell, N. Eng, and J. S. Weerasinghe), Mechanical Engineering Publications and Research (2007)
The authors report on their development of computer-based diagramming tools to support the early stages...
Defining the engine design process (with J. C. Lockledge), Mechanical Engineering Publications and Research (1999)
Shortening design lead times while maintaining product quality requires careful planning of the design process....
Design Practice
Wikis in Design Engineering Research (with Janaka S. Weerasinghe), Mechanical Engineering Publications and Research (2010)
Wiki technology has been successfully used for collaboration in various settings. Wikis are, however, rarely...
Simultaneous Tolerance Synthesis for Manufacturing and Quality (with B. Ye), Mechanical Engineering Publications and Research (2003)
Tolerance allocation a ects product design, manufacturing, and quality. No existing technique has b een found...