Creative Design Engineering‎:‎ Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Approach presents the latest information on a field that has traditionally been primarily concerned with how to make things‎.‎ However‎,‎ as technology has advanced‎,‎ and we have no shortage of things‎,‎ a new challenge for today‎'‎s engineers is what to make‎.‎ In tackling this‎,‎ our approaches to engineering design have come under the spotlight‎.‎ This book presents solutions to this topic in different sections that highlight the basic concerns associated with innovation‎.‎ First‎,‎ design is considered a kind of universal human act‎.‎ Second‎,‎ it is an interdisciplinary approach that brings together perspectives from fields such as cognitive science and science of knowledge is adopted‎.‎ Third‎,‎ the scope of the discussion also includes the process of creating an initial idea for a new product ‎(‎called the pre‎-design phase‎)‎‎,‎ as well as the use of the product in society ‎(‎the post‎-design phase‎)‎‎.‎ Design engineers and researchers in engineering design will find this a user‎-friendly route to understanding the importance of creativity to engineering and how to implement new techniques to improve design outcomes‎.‎ The book has been translated from the original Japanese book titled Sozo Dezain Kogaku [Creative Design Engineering] ‎(‎published by the University of Tokyo Press 2014‎)‎‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Toshiharu Taura
• Publisher‎:‎ Academic Press
• ISBN‎:‎ 9780128042267