Hi Don,
At some stage, this move towards the human-centred side of design will need change to gain the benefits of the human-related issues being analysed scientifically most likely via formal mathematical modelling and quantification. That is, a move back again towards more mathematically-based design theories and research
Wondering how and when you see this developing in the context of your current program? Also would that then provide a basis for design to be included in National Science funding? And if so, when do you see it likely and what would be the readiness indicators?
Best wishes,
Terry
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Let me offer some supporting, positive words to Filippo
In response to my comment that engineering design is primarily about optimization, Filippo wrote
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Filippo Salustri <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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> Ouch. That hurts.
> Honestly, we (engineering designers in academia) are trying. My
> teaching and research in design intentionally excludes all
> optimization. I see relatively little work on optimization in our
> design curriculum generally in Canada. I also see very little reported
> on optimization within The Design Society and the Canadian Engineering Education Association.
>
> Industry is a different matter.
>
> But I hope that in a generation or two, our investments in education
> and training will pay off.
>
>
It is starting to. The Design Lab at UC San Diego is not a department, so it cannot hire. Nonetheless, we have been given faculty positions that we can fill if we can find some existing department who will hire the person
-- someone who meets both our needs and theirs. This year, we are asking every department chair on campus if they are willing to take part.
Ten departments said yes. We have talked with all department chairs and all of them understand that we will only approve human-centered designers.
Some chairs said that not all of their faculty were convinced, but a sufficient number were that they wished to proceed.
One department was Structural Engineering. I was convinced that this could not possibly meet our requirements. To my great surprise (and pleasure) they made a wonderful argument about how important it has become to design the entire system, not just the structural elements: the people who must maintain it, service it, install it, and live within it (when the structure is a ship or airplane hull, a building).
In engineering, the departments are bioengineering, computer science, electrical, mechanical, and structural engineering. In social science, it is anthropology and ethnic studies. (We already have faculty from communications and cognitive science). And the department of medicine.
(Both Anthropology and Medicine also work in Global Health).
In other words, design is finding a foothold in many areas of the university.
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*Faculty Jobs at UC San Diego*. To those of you who might wish to apply, we are still getting permission for the exact wording of the advertisements
-- which is trickier than usual because the campus has never had this kind of a search before. We hope to have the announcements posted in late September or early October. When that happens, I will send a copy to this list.
You can also check our website (designlab.ucsd.edu)
Don
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