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The future of product design utilising printed electronics
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posted on 2017-02-09, 11:03 authored by Nicola York, Darren SoutheeDarren Southee, Mark EvansMark EvansThis paper addresses the teaching of emerging technologies to design students, using ‘printed electronics’ as an example as it recently became viable to mass manufacture and is ready for use in designs. Printed electronics is introduced as a disruptive technology, and approaches employed in knowledge transfer to industrial/product designers is reviewed. An overview of the technology is provided; the printing processes; material properties; a comparison with conventional electronics; and product examples are identified. Two case studies illustrate approaches for knowledge transfer to student designers. The assessment criteria and design outcomes from the case study projects are reviewed and future/new approaches proposed. The paper concludes that there is a need to develop a thorough knowledge transfer strategy for printed electronics to designers, informed by case studies and extending beyond simply showing examples of existing technology. This is necessary for future proofing both in technological advances and designing for the future.
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- Design
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Design and Technology Education JournalCitation
YORK, N., SOUTHEE, D.J. and EVANS, M.A., 2017. The future of product design utilising printed electronics. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 22(1).Publisher
© The Authors. Published by The Design and Technology AssociationVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-07-22Publication date
2017Notes
This is an Open Access Paper. It is published by The Design and Technology Association under the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY-NC). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ISSN
1360-1431eISSN
2040-8633Publisher version
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- en