Simple, Complex, Innovative: Design Education at Civil Engineering

Simple, Complex, Innovative: Design Education at Civil Engineering

Van Nederveen, G.A.
Soons, F.A.M.
Suddle, S.I.
De Ridder, H.

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Structural Engineering

2011-10-31

In faculties such as Civil Engineering, design is a not a core activity. Core activities at Civil Engineering are structural engineering, structural analysis, mechanics, fluid dynamics, etc. Design education has a relatively small share in the curriculum, compared to faculties such as Industrial Design or Architecture. Against this background, our group has developed a design track within the Civil Engineering curriculum. This design track starts in the Bachelor phase with design fundamentals, continues with methods and skills for dealing with complexity, and culminates in the Master phase with innovative design approaches based on concepts such as living systems, parametric design, product development and life cycle thinking.

design education
civil engineering
integrated design

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ed039724-870d-401a-b2db-d27d3759257e

TU Delft & IASDR

978-94-6190-718-9

IASDR 2011: Proceedings of 4th World Conference on Design Research "Diversity and Unity", Delft, The Netherlands, 31 October-4 November 2011

Institutional Repository

conference paper

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