Conceptual Design (PDF)

Mogens Myrup Andreasen, MScMechE, started as a professor of product development at the Technical University of Denmark in 1998, in 2007 he became a Professor Emeritus with a senior contract with DTU. His research fields are design methodology and product development, methods for synthesis, and creation of a theoretical foundation for the teaching and research of design. Special areas of interest are DFX, design coordination, product modeling, application of design methods, product service systems, product structuring and configuration, and design research methodology.
In 1980 he co-founded Workshop Design Konstruktion (WDK), establishing the ICED conferences. He is also a founding member of the Design Society, which evolved from WDK, a member of the advisory board 2000-2011, and now an Honoured Fellow. Further, he is a co-founder and/or committee member and reviewer in several conferences, workshops and research programs, among them DESIGN, NordDesign, TMCE and DFX.
From 1980 he was an organizer of an annual PhD courses on design research, since 1990 in co-operation with Prof. Lucienne Blessing and Prof. Christian Weber in the International Summer School on Engineering Design research SSEDR.

Dr Claus Thorp Hansen, M.Sc. EE, is an Associate Professor of design methodology at the Section of Engineering Design and Product Development, Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Technical University of Denmark. His research interests are conceptualisation, machine system theory and creative problem solving. He is pedagogical coordination of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Dr Hansen's publications cover topics like innovative idea work, goal setting, design decision-making and engineering design education. Since 1999 he has been member of the editorial board of the journal Research in Engineering Design (Springer), and he is also member of editorial board of The Journal of Danish Higher Education. Dr Hansen serves as reviewer of 6 international