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The Royal Academy of Engineering
The 2005 Summer School for Teachers of Engineering Design
Supported by the Design Council, Institution of Engineering
Designers and Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Automobile
Division).
September 11-14 September 2005
at The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow,
DMEM Studios, 5th Floor, James Weir Building.
Outline
This is a residential 3-day activity-centred event appropriate for new and
established design teachers in any of the major engineering disciplines. The school
will explore the role of design projects within an engineering curriculum and the
essential nature of design studio activity. We will develop strategies for project
structuring, briefing and review techniques; in particular we will present and
exercise a range of new tools used for discovering and evaluating the needs and
desires of users. The summer school is staffed by a tutor team with combined
experience of engineering and design teaching and in industrial practice.
Objectives
• To aid teachers in the development of student competencies in engineering
design as required by the UK spec.
• To develop concepts for matching engineering techniques to user needs and
desires.
• To develop the outlooks required to meet the competencies for ‘The
Rounded Designer’ by exploring generic, practical and cognitive skills.
Provisional Timetable
Sunday 11. September from 2.00pm Holiday Inn Express, West Nile Street
7.00pm Opening. Presentation of Objectives and
Philosophy of the summer school
Briefing: Outline of Group Project
8.00pm
Dinner
Monday 12 September
Strategies for developing Engineering Creativity
9.00 Welcome by Head of Department, DMEM
9.20 The Importance of Design and the
“Rounded Designer’
10.00 Developing course profiling and focus,
Design/issues/natures
10.30 TEMPLATES (exercise)
Tea/coffee
11.15 Issues arising
11.30 Roles and natures of projects: Dealing
with Uncertainty, briefings, project
design

12.15 Lunch
1.15 Environment for design activity: physical
and psychological
2.15 POTENTIAL IDENTITIES FOR STUDIOS
(Exercise)
3.00 Tea/coffee
3.15 Evaluating Design Activity: feedback,
review and assessment
4.00 PROJECT BRIEFING exercise
4.45 Conducting Projects with Industry
8.00pm
Dinner; Babbity Bowser, Blackfriars
Street
Tuesday 13 September
Discovering Users’ Needs and Desires
9.00am User- and People-centred design
techniques
Group Project: Street research
Reconvene, report.
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Analysis and design development.
3.45pm
8.00pm
Industrial Visit: Departure by coach from
Montrose Street to Linn Products,
Eaglesham.
Summer School Dinner: Ross Priory,
Loch Lomond
Guest Speaker: Robin Hutchinson
Wednesday 14 September Communication
9.00 Group Project: studio dimension:
development and synthesis stage
Tea/coffee
2.00 Presentation of project outcomes
Self-assessment
3.30 Conclusions/feedback
Tea/coffee
4.00 Departure
Equipment
The school will provide layout pads and basic paper-based drawing equipment. We
will have constant access to a wifi-networked design studio and to a set of desktop
computers. Due to the nature of the group project we will be undertaking, it will be
advantageous to bring both a personal digital camera (and its computer interface)
and a laptop with PowerPoint (or equivalent) software.

Summer School Team
Mike Anusas B.Eng (Hons) FRSA
Mike Anusas is a lecturer at the University of Strathclyde’s DMEM department.
After graduating from the renowned Product Design Engineering course at The
Glasgow School of Art and The University of Glasgow in 1997 he has worked in
diverse fields of product development with a creative focus and drive towards usercentred
design and sustainability.
He has worked as freelance designer, in research, manufacturing and, most
notably, for the global built environment consultancy, Buro Happold, where he
played a key strategic role in developing their sustainable product development
activities. He is now leading Industrial Design education within DMEM and pursuing
research of human-centred issues in environmentally sustainable design.
Professor Colin Burns MDes RCA
Colin Burns works as an independent creative consultant through his one-man
agency, Martach. His work focuses on the use of Design Methods to provide client
organisations with strategic Design, Innovation and Transformation consultancy.
He is the Design Associate for the Design Council’s RED unit and is a Visiting
Professor at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee University.
Colin has spent most of his career working at IDEO- the international design
consultancy, famous for its user-centred, interdisciplinary approach. During 10
years at IDEO he worked in California and Germany, as well as in the UK. He held
posts during this time as IDEO’s Global Head of Interaction Design and the Head of
IDEO London.
He studied industrial design at Napier University and the Royal College of Art.
Colin is 41 and lives in Pitlochry, Scotland with his wife and two sons.
Professor Geoff Kirk RDI, C.Eng, FIMechE, FRAeS, FIED, FRSA
Geoff Kirk completed a student apprenticeship with Hawker Siddeley Brush
Electrical Engineering Company. He joined Rolls-Royce as a designer in 1968. He
completed a postgraduate course in Engineering Design and awarded Associateship
of Loughborough University.
He is currently Chief Design Engineer – Civil Aerospace and has lead design teams
on the detail and conceptual design of the most recent Rolls-Royce civil aero
engines. He is also responsible for design professionalism within the Company.
Appointed a Royal Academy Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, London University
(1996) and the University of Nottingham (2003). He has supported the Design
Council’s Designers in Schools Week in 2003 and 2004.
His work in the field of design has been recognised by the award of the Royal
Aeronautical Society British Bronze Medal (1998), the appointment to the RSA's
Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry (2001), the Prince Philip Designers Prize in
2002 and the Gerald Frewer Memorial Trophy by the Institution of Engineering
Designers (2002). He was appointed a council member of the Design Council in
2005.
Professor Norman McNally DA MDes RCA, FCSD, FRSA
Norman McNally's breadth of educational and professional experience lead to a
multi-disciplinary approach to the design and teaching of undergraduate and
postgraduate design courses. He is now recognized as one of the UK’s foremost
design teachers and educational developers in design. In 1999 his pioneering work

within Product Design at the Glasgow School of Art won him the UK’s inaugural Sir
Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education.
More recent activities include leadership of the MAUD Interdisciplinary Masters
programme in Seville, a Visiting Professorship in Design, Manufacture and
Engineering Management and in bringing together design activity with Electronic
and Electrical Engineering to found a new Intelligent Services~Innovative Products
undergraduate stream the University of Strathclyde.
Dr. Arthur Slight
Following an initial academic career as lecturer and researcher in physics, Arthur
acquired extensive practical experience as a Director and Manager organising and
developing best practice innovation in large and small industrial companies within
the Pilkington Group (EO Division) operating in defence and communications
markets. He was instrumental in the creation and maintenance of academic
contacts and technology transfer as an integral element of commercial
development plans, with institutions in UK, USA and Europe, and has also been a
member of a number of UK government technical advisory committees.
Arthur is involved, within the Scottish Enterprise network, in assessing, advising,
and funding commercialisation in technology differentiated businesses, including
academic spin-outs, and providing aftercare mentoring support. He is an assessor
for Scottish Enterprise Proof of Concept fund applications and is a project manager
for a number of projects in Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities.
Additionally Arthur is a RAEng Visiting Professor in Product Design Engineering at
the University of Strathclyde, delivers a course on Innovation to 4 th year Physics
students, and is an assessor and mentor to the SE/RSE Research Fellowship
programme.
Costs
The fee for the course is £360.00.
This includes 3 nights accommodation and breakfast (Holiday Inn Express) and all
evening dinners, working lunches, coffee/teas. The fee also includes an industrial
visit to Linn Products, Eaglesham www.linn.co.uk and a Summer School Dinner
at Ross Priory, the University’s Loch Lomond-side Conference and Recreational
Centre www.rescat.strath.ac.uk/priory_accom.html
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