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The Royal Academy of Engineering<br />
The 2005 <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong> for Teachers of Engineering Design<br />
Supported by <strong>the</strong> Design Council, Institution of Engineering<br />
Designers and Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Automobile<br />
Division).<br />
September 11-14 September 2005<br />
at The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow,<br />
DMEM Studios, 5th Floor, James Weir Building.<br />
Outline<br />
This is a residential 3-day activity-centred event appropriate for new and<br />
established design teachers in any of <strong>the</strong> major engineering disciplines. The school<br />
will explore <strong>the</strong> role of design projects within an engineering curriculum and <strong>the</strong><br />
essential nature of design studio activity. We will develop strategies for project<br />
structuring, briefing and review techniques; in particular we will present and<br />
exercise a range of new tools used for discovering and evaluating <strong>the</strong> needs and<br />
desires of users. The summer school is staffed by a tutor team with combined<br />
experience of engineering and design teaching and in industrial practice.<br />
Objectives<br />
• To aid teachers in <strong>the</strong> development of student competencies in engineering<br />
design as required by <strong>the</strong> UK spec.<br />
• To develop concepts for matching engineering techniques to user needs and<br />
desires.<br />
• To develop <strong>the</strong> outlooks required to meet <strong>the</strong> competencies for ‘The<br />
Rounded Designer’ by exploring generic, practical and cognitive skills.<br />
Provisional Timetable<br />
Sunday 11. September from 2.00pm Holiday Inn Express, West Nile Street<br />
7.00pm Opening. Presentation of Objectives and<br />
Philosophy of <strong>the</strong> summer school<br />
Briefing: Outline of Group Project<br />
8.00pm<br />
Dinner<br />
Monday 12 September<br />
Strategies for developing Engineering Creativity<br />
9.00 Welcome by Head of Department, DMEM<br />
9.20 The Importance of Design and <strong>the</strong><br />
“Rounded Designer’<br />
10.00 Developing course profiling and focus,<br />
Design/issues/natures<br />
10.30 TEMPLATES (exercise)<br />
Tea/coffee<br />
11.15 Issues arising<br />
11.30 Roles and natures of projects: Dealing<br />
with Uncertainty, briefings, project<br />
design
12.15 Lunch<br />
1.15 Environment for design activity: physical<br />
and psychological<br />
2.15 POTENTIAL IDENTITIES FOR STUDIOS<br />
(Exercise)<br />
3.00 Tea/coffee<br />
3.15 Evaluating Design Activity: feedback,<br />
review and assessment<br />
4.00 PROJECT BRIEFING exercise<br />
4.45 Conducting Projects with Industry<br />
8.00pm<br />
Dinner; Babbity Bowser, Blackfriars<br />
Street<br />
Tuesday 13 September<br />
Discovering Users’ Needs and Desires<br />
9.00am User- and People-centred design<br />
techniques<br />
Group Project: Street research<br />
Reconvene, report.<br />
12.30pm Lunch<br />
1.30pm Analysis and design development.<br />
3.45pm<br />
8.00pm<br />
Industrial Visit: Departure by coach from<br />
Montrose Street to Linn Products,<br />
Eaglesham.<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong> Dinner: Ross Priory,<br />
Loch Lomond<br />
Guest Speaker: Robin Hutchinson<br />
Wednesday 14 September Communication<br />
9.00 Group Project: studio dimension:<br />
development and syn<strong>the</strong>sis stage<br />
Tea/coffee<br />
2.00 Presentation of project outcomes<br />
Self-assessment<br />
3.30 Conclusions/feedback<br />
Tea/coffee<br />
4.00 Departure<br />
Equipment<br />
The school will provide layout pads and basic paper-based drawing equipment. We<br />
will have constant access to a wifi-networked design studio and to a set of desktop<br />
computers. Due to <strong>the</strong> nature of <strong>the</strong> group project we will be undertaking, it will be<br />
advantageous to bring both a personal digital camera (and its computer interface)<br />
and a laptop with PowerPoint (or equivalent) software.
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong> Team<br />
Mike Anusas B.Eng (Hons) FRSA<br />
Mike Anusas is a lecturer at <strong>the</strong> University of Strathclyde’s DMEM department.<br />
After graduating from <strong>the</strong> renowned Product Design Engineering course at The<br />
Glasgow <strong>School</strong> of Art and The University of Glasgow in 1997 he has worked in<br />
diverse fields of product development with a creative focus and drive towards usercentred<br />
design and sustainability.<br />
He has worked as freelance designer, in research, manufacturing and, most<br />
notably, for <strong>the</strong> global built environment consultancy, Buro Happold, where he<br />
played a key strategic role in developing <strong>the</strong>ir sustainable product development<br />
activities. He is now leading Industrial Design education within DMEM and pursuing<br />
research of human-centred issues in environmentally sustainable design.<br />
Professor Colin Burns MDes RCA<br />
Colin Burns works as an independent creative consultant through his one-man<br />
agency, Martach. His work focuses on <strong>the</strong> use of Design Methods to provide client<br />
organisations with strategic Design, Innovation and Transformation consultancy.<br />
He is <strong>the</strong> Design Associate for <strong>the</strong> Design Council’s RED unit and is a Visiting<br />
Professor at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee University.<br />
Colin has spent most of his career working at IDEO- <strong>the</strong> international design<br />
consultancy, famous for its user-centred, interdisciplinary approach. During 10<br />
years at IDEO he worked in California and Germany, as well as in <strong>the</strong> UK. He held<br />
posts during this time as IDEO’s Global Head of Interaction Design and <strong>the</strong> Head of<br />
IDEO London.<br />
He studied industrial design at Napier University and <strong>the</strong> Royal College of Art.<br />
Colin is 41 and lives in Pitlochry, Scotland with his wife and two sons.<br />
Professor Geoff Kirk RDI, C.Eng, FIMechE, FRAeS, FIED, FRSA<br />
Geoff Kirk completed a student apprenticeship with Hawker Siddeley Brush<br />
Electrical Engineering Company. He joined Rolls-Royce as a designer in 1968. He<br />
completed a postgraduate course in Engineering Design and awarded Associateship<br />
of Loughborough University.<br />
He is currently Chief Design Engineer – Civil Aerospace and has lead design teams<br />
on <strong>the</strong> detail and conceptual design of <strong>the</strong> most recent Rolls-Royce civil aero<br />
engines. He is also responsible for design professionalism within <strong>the</strong> Company.<br />
Appointed a Royal Academy Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, London University<br />
(1996) and <strong>the</strong> University of Nottingham (2003). He has supported <strong>the</strong> Design<br />
Council’s Designers in <strong>School</strong>s Week in 2003 and 2004.<br />
His work in <strong>the</strong> field of design has been recognised by <strong>the</strong> award of <strong>the</strong> Royal<br />
Aeronautical Society British Bronze Medal (1998), <strong>the</strong> appointment to <strong>the</strong> RSA's<br />
Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry (2001), <strong>the</strong> Prince Philip Designers Prize in<br />
2002 and <strong>the</strong> Gerald Frewer Memorial Trophy by <strong>the</strong> Institution of Engineering<br />
Designers (2002). He was appointed a council member of <strong>the</strong> Design Council in<br />
2005.<br />
Professor Norman McNally DA MDes RCA, FCSD, FRSA<br />
Norman McNally's breadth of educational and professional experience lead to a<br />
multi-disciplinary approach to <strong>the</strong> design and teaching of undergraduate and<br />
postgraduate design courses. He is now recognized as one of <strong>the</strong> UK’s foremost<br />
design teachers and educational developers in design. In 1999 his pioneering work
within Product Design at <strong>the</strong> Glasgow <strong>School</strong> of Art won him <strong>the</strong> UK’s inaugural Sir<br />
Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education.<br />
More recent activities include leadership of <strong>the</strong> MAUD Interdisciplinary Masters<br />
programme in Seville, a Visiting Professorship in Design, Manufacture and<br />
Engineering Management and in bringing toge<strong>the</strong>r design activity with Electronic<br />
and Electrical Engineering to found a new Intelligent Services~Innovative Products<br />
undergraduate stream <strong>the</strong> University of Strathclyde.<br />
Dr. Arthur Slight<br />
Following an initial academic career as lecturer and researcher in physics, Arthur<br />
acquired extensive practical experience as a Director and Manager organising and<br />
developing best practice innovation in large and small industrial companies within<br />
<strong>the</strong> Pilkington Group (EO Division) operating in defence and communications<br />
markets. He was instrumental in <strong>the</strong> creation and maintenance of academic<br />
contacts and technology transfer as an integral element of commercial<br />
development plans, with institutions in UK, USA and Europe, and has also been a<br />
member of a number of UK government technical advisory committees.<br />
Arthur is involved, within <strong>the</strong> Scottish Enterprise network, in assessing, advising,<br />
and funding commercialisation in technology differentiated businesses, including<br />
academic spin-outs, and providing aftercare mentoring support. He is an assessor<br />
for Scottish Enterprise Proof of Concept fund applications and is a project manager<br />
for a number of projects in Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities.<br />
Additionally Arthur is a RAEng Visiting Professor in Product Design Engineering at<br />
<strong>the</strong> University of Strathclyde, delivers a course on Innovation to 4 th year Physics<br />
students, and is an assessor and mentor to <strong>the</strong> SE/RSE Research Fellowship<br />
programme.<br />
Costs<br />
The fee for <strong>the</strong> course is £360.00.<br />
This includes 3 nights accommodation and breakfast (Holiday Inn Express) and all<br />
evening dinners, working lunches, coffee/teas. The fee also includes an industrial<br />
visit to Linn Products, Eaglesham www.linn.co.uk and a <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong> Dinner<br />
at Ross Priory, <strong>the</strong> University’s Loch Lomond-side Conference and Recreational<br />
Centre www.rescat.strath.ac.uk/priory_accom.html<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong> Registration Form<br />
Registration for <strong>the</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong> is now open; book your place by downloading<br />
your pdf copy of <strong>the</strong> information and signing up!<br />
www.dmem.strath.ac.uk/raengss