When you have used a particular tool, item, or object for one sole purpose again and again, your brain can sometimes associate it with only that use. This concept is called functional fixedness.

People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...

CAD tools are evolving to let design and manufacturing engineers create products based on their functions, eliminating the time-consuming task of entering data to build the components that make up a ...

If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a thousand times: Documentation is the least favorite part of engineering. But it also may be one of the most important and is growing to be more so. This was made ...

Design thinking is a flexible approach that promotes creativity in product design. Cross-functional teams are a natural fit ...

The bottom line is that to match actions to a given event, it is necessary to look into each component implementation to understand the event and actions it handles, together with the messaging ...

Whether you are designing or redesigning a course, consider collaborating with the Instructional Design team and other WMU faculty and instructors to: Examine ways to identify and address the needs of ...