• Home - about the Engineering Design Centre
• Design Research
  • Research streams
    • Complex process integration and coordination
    • Design for lifecycle and sustainability
    • Decision support and optimisation
  • Future research topics and potential projects
    • Design rationale
    • Techniques for dealing with complexity
    • Mechanisms for identifying property emergence
    • Systems for understanding product lifecycle
    • Using information systems as legacy utilities
      • Design freedom and flexibility
    • Design optimisation with imperfect information
    • Implementation of knowledge use and management
    • Improvement strategies within the design process
    • Balance between integration and de-coupling
  • Current research projects
    • Cost-committed and cost-incurred
    • IME product hierarchy
  • Recent research projects
    • Representing emergent properties
  • Business of the EDC
    • Industrial collaboration
• Sustainability at the EDC
  • Specific energy projects
  • Education
  • Public Finance Initiatives
  • Policy and planning
  • Regeneration
• Courses and events run by the EDC
  • MSc in Major Project Management and Research Network
    • Basis of a research network
    • Overview of the MSc programme
    • Participant and employer profile
    • Module summaries
  • Courses that include Sustainability
  • Postgraduate studies with the EDC
  • ENG 8016: Advanced computer aided engineering
  • ENG 8017: Management of new product introduction
• People at the EDC
  • John Dalton, Director
    • Selected publications
  • Sharon Joyce, Sustainability Manager
  • Paul Braiden, Associate Director
  • Steve Riddle, Associate Director
  • Chris Hicks, Associate Director
  • Sue Haile, University Sustainability Advisor
  • Irma Gorton, Energy Systems Analyst
  • Andy Haddon, Visiting Researcher
  • Terry Heppenstall, Visiting Professor
  • Bill Oliver, Visiting Professor
  • Les Grant, Visiting Professor
  • Les Fielding, Visiting Professor
  • Jeff Hulse, Visiting Professor
  • Steve Calvert, Visiting Lecturer
  • Peter Norman, Director (Retired)
  • Pratyush Sen, Associate Director (Retired)
  • Ian Buxton, Associate Director (Retired)
• Contacting the EDC
  • Help in finding us
    • Location of the Stephenson Building
    • Location of Newcastle University
• Research highlights archive
  • Research highlight for June 2007
  • Research highlight for May 2007
  • Research highlight for March 2007
    • Fig 1. Transforming data into knowledge
  • Research highlight for February 2007
    • Fig 1. Sequential operations on different machines
    • Fig 2. Sequential operations on the same machine
    • Fig 3. Example schedule for a complex jobshop
  • Research highlight for January 2007
    • Fig 1. The basic algorithm for a GA
    • Fig 2. Roulette wheel selection
    • Fig 3. Crossover operator
    • Fig 4. Mutation operator
  • Research highlight for December 2006
    • Fig 1. Multiple Criteria Decision Making
    • Fig 2. Comparison of scores given to six options
    • Fig 3. Ranking the options
  • Research highlight for November 2006
    • Fig 1. Complexity of systems is increasing
    • Fig 2. Attractors highlight stable regions
  • Research highlight for October 2006
    • Fig 1. Design freedom in the early design stage
    • Fig 2. Facilitating upgradeability
• Events
  • Future events listed here

sustainability@newcastle

• Home page for sustainability@newcastle
• Aims and contact details
  • People involved with sustainability@newcastle
    • Sue Haile, University Sustainability Advisor
    • Peter Norman, EDC Director
    • Sharon Joyce, EDC Sustainability Research Manager
    • James Marshall, EDC Sustainability Research Associate
    • Jeff Hulse, Visiting Professor
• Research in sustainable engineering
  • The EDC and sustainability
  • Sustainability
  • Design for sustainability
• Teaching
  • Clean technology and carbon neutral degrees
  • Clean technology project examples
• Communities
• Green campus
  • Sustainability policy
  • Sustainability performance
    • Transportation strategy
    • Energy consumption
    • Water and sewerage costs
    • Widening participation
      • Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds
      • Mature students
      • Disabled students
  • What you can do

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Commercial Research at Newcastle University

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