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PEVALUATING ENGINEERING DESIGN METHODS: TAKING INSPIRATION FROM SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND THE HEALTH SCIENCES

Part of: Socio-technical Issues in Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2020

A. M. Hein  and
G. Lamé
A. M. Hein*
Affiliation:
CentraleSupélec, France
G. Lamé
Affiliation:
CentraleSupélec, France
*
*andreas-makoto.hein@centralesupelec.fr

Abstract

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Engineering design methods are typically evaluated via case studies, surveys, and experiments. Meanwhile, domains such as the health sciences as well as software engineering have developed further powerful evaluation approaches. The objective of this paper is to show how evaluation approaches from the health sciences and software engineering might further the evaluation of engineering design methods. We survey these approaches and show which approaches could be transferred to the evaluation of engineering design methods.

Keywords

design methodsdesign methodologyevaluationempirical studiesresearch methodologies and methods

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Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference , Volume 1 , May 2020 , pp. 1901 - 1910
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