Information technology has played an increasingly important role in engineering product
development. Its influence over the past decade has been accelerating and its impact in the …

Product design is a highly involved, often ill-defined, complex and iterative process, and the
needs and specifications of the required artifact get more refined only as the design process …

Rationale is the justification behind decisions. It is captured and used in many different forms
during software engineering. While it has not achieved widespread use in practice, several …

Change management in construction is an important aspect of project management, as
changes constitute a major cause of delay and disruption, and it is widely accepted by both …

The most distinctive thing about humans is not the thumb, of course. It is design. Unlike any
other animal, we incessantly and dramatically reshape both ourselves and our environment …

A successful implementation of the Model-Based Enterprise concept (MBE) requires
maximizing the potential benefits of annotated 3D models. The foundations of the MBE …

Detailed design of building projects is a complex multidisciplinary process highly dependent
upon effective aggregation of individual designs to produce a coherent set of final design …

With the increasing popularity of consumer-grade 3D printing, many people are creating,
and even more using, objects shared on sites such as Thingiverse. However, our formative …

A major source of risk in construction is the potential changes occurring during the project
lifetime. Changes in construction projects often result from the uncertainty associated with …

This dissertation explores the development of purpose in the project definition phase of
construction projects. Project definition is the project phase that identifies the needs and …