DESIGN FOR HEALTHCARE
- Design of medical devices
- Design for mental health and wellbeing
- Design for patient-centred care
- Designing e-health systems
- Design driven innovations in healthcare
- User-centred design in healthcare
DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY
- Design for a circular economy
- Design for product lifetime optimisation
- Design for sustainable life/consumption
- Eco-design
- Design for the environment
- Design for cleaner production
- Environmental and sustainability assessment
DATA DRIVEN DESIGN
- Data collection and knowledge management for big data
- Designing with sensory data
- Design statistics
- Big data mining
- Modelling consumer preferences/ behaviour
- Machine learning
- Semantic data processing
- Engineering ontologies
NEXT GENERATION SYSTEMS
- Industry 4.0
- Designing of Cyber-Physical Systems
- Embedded Systems Design
- Design for the Internet of Everything
- Systems Engineering, Complex Systems Design
- Engineering of Robotics and Mechatronic Systems
- Design for Autonomous Agents
- Artificial Intelligence and Awareness
- Smart Engineering, Smart/self-adapting Systems
- Intelligent materials
DESIGN AND MOBILITY
- Design for E–mobility
- Lightweight design and efficiency
- Infrastructure and support system design
DESIGN METHODOLOGY
- Researching of designs and design methods
- Design theories and approaches
- Theory-driven design
- Experiments in design
DESIGN PROCESSES
- Product development models and strategies
- Design process modelling and management
- Product innovation engineering
- Industrial design
DESIGN MANAGEMENT
- Organisational understanding of product development
- Design of organizational processes
- Design of workspaces to manage product development
- Market and business implications
- Innovation strategies and innovation management
- Design practice: Best practice, industry practice (cases)
SYSTEMS DESIGN
- Product and system modelling
- Product architectures, structural complexity
- Platform design, modularization, product family design
- Robust Design, Tolerance Management
- Design for Interfaces, Human-Machine Interfaces
- System of Systems Design
SERVICE DESIGN
- Product-service systems design
- Planning for service co-production
- Design services in innovation networks
- Design for service delivery
- Design tools and -techniques for service design
DESIGN METHODS AND TOOLS
- Design for X, design to X (quality, sustainability, costs, …)
- Design tactics and methods
- Requirement management, user orientation, user integration
- Evaluation methods
- Modelling and simulation methods
- Usage and integration of supportive technologies
- Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
- Digital Engineering
- Additive Manufacturing, 3D/4D Printing
HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IN DESIGN
- Designers’ thinking and skills
- Teamwork in design
- Collaborative and participatory design
- Design communication
- Representation of design information
- Design for emotion and experience
- Decision Making
- Emotional Engineering
DESIGN CREATIVITY
- Creative design processes
- Cognitive processes in design creativity
- Supporting design creativity
- Assessing creativity
DESIGN EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING
- Teaching examples and experiments
- Education experiences, plans, and visions
- Training in design (academic and industrial)
- Awareness of societal consequences
Programme & Papers
Important Dates
2018 2019