Innovative Design Method

虽然设计理论和方法论领域在美国只是最近才出现，但在欧洲，设计，特别是机械设计，长期以来一直是一门研究课题。关于设计方法论的大量文献在很大程度上是不为人知的，美国的研究人员也无法接触到这些文献。这些方法中的许多只适用于狭义的学科，并且严重依赖于对使用它们的人的文化和培训的假设；然而，来自欧洲的基础设计研究必须被学习并纳入美国发展中的设计领域。以Hartkopt和Gowalski以及Zwicky的作品为基础，利用形态分析的原理，创建了一种面向计算机的创新设计方法。在整个项目中，该方法将与假设和程序或相关方法进行比较。

While the field of Design Theory and Methodology has emerged only recently in the United States, in Europe design, particularly mechanical design, has long been a subject of research. A large body of literature on design methodologies exists that is largely unknown and inaccessible to researchers in the United States. Many of these methodologies pertain only to narrowly defined disciplines and depend strongly on assumptions about the culture and training of the people who use them; however, the basic design research from Europe must be studied and incorporated into the developing field of design in the United States. A computer-oriented innovative design method is created using the principals of morphological analysis based on the work of Hartkopt and Gowalski as well as the work of Zwicky. Throughout the project, this method will be compared with the assumptions and procedures or related methods.