Teaching Design for Environment in Product Design Classes
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Baeriswyl, Michael C.
Eppinger, Steven D.
Date Issued
August 2011
Journal
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
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Design Society
Citation
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.
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Abstract
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.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division
Sloan School of Management
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