caa a22 4500 469072547 CHVBK 20180323132925.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01580844 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01580844 An interdisciplinary course in engineering synthesis [Elektronische Daten] [Steven Fenves, Ignacio Grossmann] The interdisciplinary courseSynthesis of Engineering Systems has been offered by the Engineering Design Research Center over the last 3 years. Students are exposed to two major paradigms for design synthesis: mathematical programming and knowledge-based expert systems. The former emphasizes the mathematical formulation of optimization problems that involve discrete and continuous variables for the selection of topologies and parameters in engineering systems. The latter emphasizes representations and search techniques for processing qualitative knowledge for synthesis of designs by heuristic classification and hierarchical decomposition. An integral part of the course is a term project in which the students apply both synthesis approaches to a design problem in their domain. The projects deal with different engineering problems, reflecting the disciplinary background of the students. The projects explore a number of different schemes for combining mathematical optimization and knowledge-based approaches. Some use knowledge-based techniques for preliminary screening or as critics of mathematical optimization, while others show a direct comparison between the two approaches. This paper summarizes the experience gained in the course, illustrates representative student projects, discusses major results and conclusions, and provides a perspective for future research needs and educational approaches in this area. Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1992 Fenves Steven Engineering Design Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA aut Grossmann Ignacio Engineering Design Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA aut Research in Engineering Design Springer-Verlag 3/4(1992-12-01), 223-231 0934-9839 3:4<223 1992 3 163 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01580844 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01580844 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fenves Steven Engineering Design Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Grossmann Ignacio Engineering Design Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Research in Engineering Design Springer-Verlag 3/4(1992-12-01), 223-231 0934-9839 3:4<223 1992 3 163 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer