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Engineering design support challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2007

IAN F.C. SMITH
Affiliation:
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Extract

After 20 years of personal experience in introducing advanced software into several engineering contexts (engineering consulting firms, construction companies, large diversified companies, and commercial research establishments), some observations may be of interest. Although some development efforts succeeded and software is still in use, not one development effort has met the expectations that were expressed at the beginning of the project. The least successful experiences are design applications.

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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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