Thanks Ken,
This is seriously useful. It would be good if more universities and colleges made PhD and other research theses available. I find them helpful for the freshness of the new concepts and ideas - as well as the findings. They are specially useful because they contain really up to date snapshots of the cutting edge in different bits of design research.
The transparency of being able to see the PhDs of others is useful in helping moderate standards. To complete the education process for all participants it would be even more helpful if the examiners reviews of each thesis were published alongside the thesis, preferably with the examiners identified by name rather than anonymously.
Best wishes,
Terry
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From: Ken Friedman
Sent: 29/05/2003 4:54 PM
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Subject: An important on-line resource at the Stanford Center for Design Research
Dear Colleagues,
The Center for Design Research at Stanford University
now makes its completed doctoral dissertations available
on-line. 57 dissertations supervised by professors Larry
Leifer, Sherri Sheppard, and Mark Cutkosky, are accessible
in .pdf format for download.
To access these materials, go to URL:
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/CDR/publications.html
This is an important resource for the design research
community, and a marvelous example.
It is to be hoped that an increasing number of universities
and university-based design schools will make web-based
publication part of the publishing requirement for PhD
research.
Nearly all doctoral dissertations or thesis manuscripts are
now prepared in digital format and all universities that grant
the doctoral degree have some form of Web site. Today's
technology makes universal access to completed theses
and dissertations possible. This is one way to help completed
doctoral research make an original contribution to the
knowledge base of our field.
To learn more about CDR, go to:
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/CDR/entry.html
From the CDR glossary:
"CDR is a research Center at Stanford University founded
in 1984 to study the engineering design process and design
tool development. Its goal is to develop new enterprise
R&D tools and to build a deeper understanding of the
technical culture that produces new products."
Best regards,
--
Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Department of Leadership and Organization
Norwegian School of Management
Visiting Professor
Advanced Research Institute
School of Art and Design
Staffordshire University
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