Advances in Design

Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy became the first woman Dean of Engineering in Canada in 1994 at the University of Windsor. Prior to that she was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario where she was the founding Director of the Center for Flexible Manufacturing Research and Development. She has been named Canada Research Chair in Manufacturing Systems -- in recognition of her leadership and distinguished contributions to the modern manufacturing systems theories and practice that have been implemented by numerous companies to advantage. She is author and co-author of 312 refereed journal and conference publications, contributor to 14 books, and author of 3 theses, 83 unpublished industrial reports and internal research reports. Dr. ElMaraghy is a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME) and the American Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). She received the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario's "Engineering Medal" for Research and Development and was named Hamilton's 1990 Woman of the Year in the Workplace Category. Dr. Waguih ElMaraghy is a Professor of Engineering and Director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Centre in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department at the University of Windsor. Before joining Windsor, Dr. ElMaraghy was Professor and founding Director of the DA&MRL (Design Automation & Manufacturing Research) Centre of research excellence at the University of Western Ontario. He is an international expert in engineering design, manufacturing and industrial productivity and competitiveness. He has a number of Patents and has consulted for Industry, including on UNDP TOKTEN projects. Dr. ElMaraghy has carried out several national and international collaborative research projects, and is the author of over 150 publications, and over 100 Industry reports, and is currently supervising about twelve Masters and Ph.D. students. Dr. ElMaraghy has also contributed to a number of engineering design and manufacturing books, including being co-editor in 1989 of "Design Theory and Methodology", Proc. of the ASME First International Design Theory and Methodology Conference (DTM'89), (ASME Book no.: H00507, ISBN: 0-7918-0361-9). Dr. ElMaraghy is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario (PEO). He is a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the CIRP (International Institute for Production Engineering Research).

• Next Generation Design.- Economic Growth, Business Innovation and Engineering Design.- Directions of Next Generation Product Development.- ‘What-if’ Design as an Integrative Method in Product Design.- Self Organization in Design.- Towards a Design Methodology for Self-optimizing Systems.- Design Knowledge and Functional Design.- Reusing Design Knowledge.- Structural and Functional Analysis for Assemblies.- Knowledge Management for a Cooperative Design System.- Innovative and Conceptual Design.- AdaptEx: Extending Product Life Cycles through Strategic Product Upgrades.- Product Genetic Engineering.- Gene Engineering-based Innovation of Manufactured Products.- Use of Constraint Programming for Design.- Model Infrastructures and Human Interaction in a Stereo Table Environment.- Inventive Design Applied to Injection Molding.- Design Frameworks.- Supporting Problem Expression within a Co-evolutionary Design Framework.- A Four-stage Approximation Strategy for the Exploration of a Mechanical Concept.- A Framework of Product Styling Platform Using Case-based Styling Indexing.- A Systematic Design Approach for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems.- Crosstalk: Collaborative Framework for Electro-mechanical Product Design.- Integrated Architecture of Geometric Models and Design Intentions.- Design Management.- Management of Engineering Design Process in Collaborative Situation.- Requirements Management for the Extended Automotive Enterprise.- Federated Product Data Management in Multi-company Projects.- STEP PLCS for Design and In-service Product Data Management.- Value Chain Structure and Correlation Between Design Structure Matrices.- Integration of Cost Models in Design and Manufacturing.- Product Life Cycle.- Life Cycle Product Support in the Digital Age.- Total QualityManagement and Process Modeling for PLM in SME.- Selection and Evaluation of PLM Tools for Competitive Product Development.- Collaborative Engineering Design.- Efficient Product Data Sharing in Collaboration Life Cycles.- Design Iterations in a Geographically Distributed Design Process.- A Cluster-based Approach for Collaborative Design Process Analysis.- Workspaces and Cooperation Notions in the Design Process.- Pitfalls of Engineering Change.- Modeling of Manufacturing Process Complexity.- Human Modeling in Industrial Design.- Design Intent and Tolerancing.- On the Merging of Geometric Models Based on Hierarchical Context.- Haptic Virtual Prototyping for Design and Assessment of Gear-shifts.- Predicting Design Quality through Sensitivity Modeling.- Computer Aided Tolerancing - Solver and Post Processor Analysis.- A New Method for Integrated Design and Tolerancing.- Contact and Channel Model for Pairs of Working Surfaces.- Modeling and Design for Manufacturing.- Manufacturing-driven Design of Sculptured Surfaces.- Extended Design for X for Digital Consumer Products.- Development of Integrated Design System for Structural Design of Machine Tools.- The Structured Design of a Reconfigurable Control Process.

Engineering design is a broad domain that encompasses a wide range of activities whose final aim is to determine all attributes of a product before it is manufactured, whether the product be a consumer good or a machine tool that is used to manufacture products. In summary, Advances in Design covers the results of years of research, both fundamental and applied, in the area of advanced design and is a balanced and informative body of knowledge. The variety of topics covered by the book helps ensure that it will have areas of interest for people working in the area of design, be they from an academic or industrial background. Dr. A. Soroka, Cardiff University, UK, I*PROMS News, July 2006