Proposals, Rationales, and Criticism in the Engineering Design Process
Tags: FORUMS (Discussion & debate); ENGINEERING design; ENGINEERING students; MULTIDISCIPLINARY design optimization; INDUSTRIAL design coordination; COMBINATORIAL optimization; CROSS-functional teams; GROUP decision making; TEAMS in the workplace
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