International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 2027)

The International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 2027) is dedicated to design research, education and practice.

Key Topics

• Design organisation and management
  • Workspaces for design
  • Organisational understanding
  • Management of innovation and complexity
  • Market and business implications
  • Social responsibility and ethics of designing
  • Assessment and management of risk and uncertainty
• Design processes
  • Strategies
  • Models
  • Innovation engineering
  • Design process modelling and management
  • Industrial design
  • Multi-, Cross- and Trans-disciplinary processes
• Product, services and systems design
  • Structural complexity
  • Product and system modelling
  • Product-service systems (PSS)
  • Product architectures, platform design, modularisation and product family design
  • Systems engineering and design
  • Design and optimisation of organisational processes
  • Designing large-scale engineering systems (e.g. healthcare, policy, infrastructure, energy systems)
• Design research applications and case studies
  • Industry case studies
  • Design practice
  • Applications to complex engineered systems
  • Transfer of design research methods into industry
  • Applications of design research across industry domains
• Design for X, design to X
  • Design to properties (DtX) - cost, time, quality, flexibility, safety, etc
  • Design for lifecycle (DfX) - manufacturing, additive manufacturing, use of new technologies, assembly, testing, use, recycling, etc
  • Sustainability (e.g. circular economy, social innovation)
  • Ecodesign
  • Designing for digitised engineering value chains (e.g. big data, integrated lifecycle data models, internet of things, sensor technologies)
• Design methods and tools
  • Requirements elicitation and management
  • Design tactics and methods
  • Evaluation and decision-making
  • User orientation, user integration
  • Virtual product development
  • Modelling and simulation methods
  • Bio-inspired design
  • Usage and integration of supportive technologies
  • Designing under uncertainty, Robust Design
  • Computational design methods and tools (e.g. design automation, representation, optimisation, evaluation and integration)
• Design theory and research methodology
  • Design research methodologies and methods
  • Design theories and approaches
  • Evaluation of theories, approaches and methods
  • Experiments in design
• Design information and knowledge
  • Information and knowledge management
  • Knowledge-intensive design
  • Representation of design information and knowledge
  • Design knowledge and collaboration
• Design education
  • Academic education experiences, plans and visions
  • Teaching examples and experiments
  • Life-long learning in design
  • Industry training in design
• Human behaviour in design
  • Design cognition
  • Designers` thinking, motivations and skills
  • Teamwork in design
  • Creativity and innovative thinking
  • Communication in design
  • Collaborative and participatory design
  • Design for emotion and experience