Interactive freehand sketching as the means for online communication of design intent in conceptual design conducted by Brainwriting

AbstractSketching is becoming an irrelevant activity of engineering studies. The availability of many software that aids designers in all phases of design, not only analytic but synthetic, push technicians, designers to use such tools, giving up the employment of a simple pencil and eraser on a sheet of paper. The productivity of software tools is obliged to speed and manage the whole design process; even freehand sketching remains the fundamental means to communicate the first ideas immediately. During Brainwriting sessions, the ability to explain by sketches first elaborations of a possible solution, that must be understood by co-designers, is the first step that allows more fruitful discussion and immediate adjustment towards a quick embodiment of valid proposals. The paper describes how such techniques has been introduced in the mechanical engineering curriculum. The case of study reports the experience of the Brainwriting online, which has been tested during lockdown due to the pandemic disease of COVID-19. Further in the paper it is suggested a new interpretation of the de Saussure general linguistic studies, in term of a communication that is associated to a drawing

Engaging in Product Development as Means to Understand the Basics of Design

AbstractTeaching product design is not a trivisal task. Considering the experience done along 20 years of teaching at master level class in mechanical engineering it is possible to take stock. The model followed is Project-Based Learning and this method can be licensed as the model that gives greater satisfaction to all attendees. Students give high score to the survey organized by university at the end of the course to assess didactic validity. Also, teachers have many stimuli when discussing with students the activities proposed. The course is based on the development of an industrial product that solves a problem, eventually posed by industry or emerged by customers. Based on the course schedule, the different phases of product development put in evidence the steps that require divergent thinking and those where it is necessary to employ convergent thinking. A case study allows explaining all the phases of product design

Fundamental aspects in metal cutting modelling

Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Meccanica, XXI Ciclo,a.a.2007-2008Università della Calabri

Una metodologia per la misurazioni della planarità per mezzo di macchine a controllo di coordinate(CMM)

Scuola di dottorato "Pitagora" in Scienze Ingegneristiche, Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Meccanica, XXVI Ciclo, a.a. 2010-2011Università della Calabri

Methods and tools for topology optimization systems integration within the product development process

Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Meccanica, XXIII Ciclo,2010Università della Calabri

Un approccio analitico basato sui grafi per lo studio funzionale di prodotti industriali

Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Meccanica, XXII Ciclo, a.a. 2008-2009Università della Calabri

Integration of Environmental Issues in Axiomatic Design to Pursue Sustainable Products

Product design is an activity that must be supported by information in order to allow designers to conceive solutions to real problems that do not introduce further issues, first of all, environmental concerns. Axiomatic design is an approach that provides the possibility to check whether a design solution is functionally valid and it can also be extended considering eco-design elements. In a synthetic representation of 1D and 2D arrays, it can inform designers about the level of sustainability of the product on which they have been working on since the first phase of design when they start to embody functionalities by introducing real components, and first assemblies appear. To achieve this task, the domains considered in the original formulation of Axiomatic Design have been revised, and a new domain has been introduced. This allows designers to take into account all the phases of product life and improve design solutions to avoid introducing structures, components, and functionalities that might be the cause of environmental problems. The paper describes such new mapping among domains and applies it to design a daily life device. The contents of the new data structure will be presented and discussed

CFD investigation of the seakeeping behavior of a catamaran advancing in regular waves by an unsteady rans code

Dottorato di ricerca in Ingegneria Meccanica, XXII Ciclo, a.a. 2008-2009Università della Calabri

Analisi tecnico-sperimentale delle metodologie transitori di identificazione dei parametri caratteistici dei collettori solari termici a liquido

Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Meccanica, Ciclo XXI, a.a. 2007-2008Università della Calabri