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Advantages of the Engineering Designer

Cooley, Christopher
http://orcid.org/0009-0007-7147-9871
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1712912768089798

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2024, MDES, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Design.
Mid-century designers leveraged post-WWII manufacturing techniques to blend form and function. This thesis demonstrates the similar capability of a designer with an engineering skillset. Following the examples set by past mid-century modern designers, as well as incorporating personal ethics and perspective, a chair design project in injection molding is performed and discussed. The research concludes that engineering methodologies alone in product design are often too limited in defining constraints. Furthermore, some professionals should operate in the same space in which all products live—between engineering and design. Conducting the chair design project inside of this “space between” resulted in an authentic product (one whose aesthetic direction is driven by constraints), faster iteration, and other key advantages.
Thomas Richard Huston, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Peter Chamberlain, M.F.A. (Committee Chair)
65 p.
Design
product design; engineering; industrial design; interdisciplinary; mid-century modern; plastic injection molding

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  • Cooley, C. (2024). Advantages of the Engineering Designer [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1712912768089798

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cooley, Christopher. Advantages of the Engineering Designer. 2024. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1712912768089798.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cooley, Christopher. "Advantages of the Engineering Designer." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1712912768089798

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