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Few companies have coherent product retaliation processes, implement available advanced design techniques, or develop new ones. Greatly improved engineering design is so important to the nation's industrial competitiveness and economic health that government must proactively emphasize it as part of a long-range emphasis on commercial excellence and national competitiveness.
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As discussed in Chapter 2, manufacturing~rms should: . recognize the leverage afforded by engineering design and move to take advantage of it; · implement a comprehensive, coherent product realization process; utilize a carefully chosen set of contemporary design practices; create a supportive environment for design; establish dedicated functional chancre sat tn ~mnl~mPn!
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Industrial firms need to raise university awareness of industry needs in engineering design by: · making clear to universities that they want graduates who are familiar with contemporary design concepts, principles, and methodologies; · explaining to universities their best design practices, what they believe should be taught, and what they are currently teaching their own engineers; encouraging their designers to participate on university advisory boards and teach in the classrooms; and · supporting design education by providing opportunities for faculty and students to observe and participate in design experiences, both in industry and academe.
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Finally, design courses should be integrated into the curriculum so as to provide a continual increase in the design competence of a student progressing through an engineering program." Professional engineering societies should: · through their education arms and with participation of engineers practicing in industry, encourage the further education of design teachers and increase the awareness of all faculty members of the importance of engineenng design. Support for Faculty Engineering institz`tions must adopt organizational changes that facilitate and reward design teaching and research.
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Design research clearly requires such an initiative; it will be difficult for the NSF, the logical funding agency for much of the proposed research, to allocate substantial funds to support design because various NSF constituencies cannot be expected willingly to accept funding cuts in their areas, and the "proposal pressure" that drives some reallocations is not likely to be strong in an area characterized by a short history and limited past funding. For applied research, particularly research dealing with data bases, standards, and the relation of design to the enterprise, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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Industrial firms must take an initiative in fostering research collaboraiion with universities by: · participating in, and supporting, basic as well as applied engineering design research; · developing strategies for assuring long-term stable interactions with and support of researchers; and · supporting faculty internships in industry, accompanied, where appropriate, by assurance of design-oriented research support from industry or government for several years after the faculty members return to academe. National Consortium for Engineering Design In Chapter 4, the creation of a National Consortium for Engineering Design is suggested for the purposes of: · performing precompentive research to improve design methods and tools; · Cayenne and disseminating information about intemationa1 best engineering design practices; · transferring existing and new design knowledge, especially in the form of software, into industry and academe; · developing and promoting industry-university-government collaboration in research and education; and · providing brokerage services for personnel exchanges and arranging privately funded research between universities and industry.
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Among the structural possibilities are: · an organization of industrial fimns of all sizes, with funding from the firms on some proportionate basis; · a similar organization, but with strong Department of Commerce involvement; an organization of industrial firms, but with government funding for start-up purposes; an extension of the NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) program.
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