As a more recently established engineering program, human centered design & engineering (HCDE) may fly under the radar in comparison to the larger and longer-standing engineering departments at UW.

Have you ever thought about how and why something was designed? Who was considered a “stakeholder” for the design? And what biases are baked within the process of designing something? These are some ...

It is important that engineers document the design process so that they can communicate it to others and ensure no information is lost. It is also critical for convincing decision-makers to approve ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Engineering Design Process is a set of steps that engineers use to find a solution to a problem. The problems they solve can be very complex, ...

Customers have been frustrated, injured and even killed by confusing instructions, unclear operating procedures and poorly designed controls. In some cases, these interfaces and instructions were ...

Within the United States’ a new form of engineering education has become popularized: project-based learning particularly for first-year engineering students. Often hands-on projects courses become ...

Civil engineering and landscape design are often discussed as separate disciplines, but the most successful projects show how closely they depend on one another. Civil engineering provides the ...

A field-tested approach to resolving design ambiguities before structural pours — based on real site coordination ...

Exciting and unique buildings increasingly dot the landscape of our urban environments and beautifully fill the pages of our design magazines. Conversely, over the past half century the construction ...