Design engineering laboratory

The principal focus of the laboratory is design. More specifically, the laboratory looks into solving problems related to design processes. These could be design processes undertaken by a company, a department, a designer or a group of designers and researchers.

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The laboratory’s work

The laboratory’s work aims to facilitate the design process from the initial development of a product through to its production. The aim of the laboratory’s research is to study and produce solutions for resolving design issues encountered at any stage in the product life cycle and in the systems producing them. The laboratory's approach factors in the related technical, economic, human and organisational aspects and the latest findings in engineering sciences. The laboratory is particularly interested in design issues where the usual design procedures cannot be applied, in other words design issues that require creativity through the development of new techniques and/or the innovative use of existing techniques.

The Design Engineering Laboratory is the EA 3938 host team

Research topics

• Understanding design,
• Design instruments,
• Design functionalities and knowledge for : the objective is to obtain and model knowledge and findings to create functions for use in the design processes.

Fields of application

• manufacturing systems: production materials, procedures and processes;
• environment: renewable energies, hydraulic installations, alternative technologies;
• health: osteoarticular biomechanics.

Project examples

• Acquiring and capitalising knowledge in production system design (design engineering, knowledge engineering).
• Industrial design and sustainable development

Competence groups

• the design engineering, cognition and artificial intelligence group
• the surface engineering group
• the hydraulic engineering group

Special features

• A multi-disciplinary approach:
• mechanics, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, materials science, automation and information science,
• educational and training sciences,
• management science.

• its key focus: innovation in design

Head of the laboratory: Roland De Guio