(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-01)
Jiménez, Hernando; Mavris, Dimitri N.
The Collaborative Design Environment (CoDE) is a dedicated collaborative design
facility aimed at enhancing design team communication by supporting collocated system and
discipline experts with analysis tools, design applications and various technologies. A
generalized model of collaborative design offering flexibility and concurrently addressing
the environment and the process as complementary counterparts is proposed. A detailed
process was constructed by strategically aligning pertinent models of collaborative design
from a variety of fields. The process clearly describes how technological affordances in the
CoDE can be used to address the collaborative design challenges and leverage its
advantages. This process was successfully implemented by a team of undergraduate
aerospace engineering students participating in the 2006 AIAA aircraft design competition.
The process, the environment and the generalized model serving as a flexible reference
frame constitute a framework for collaborative design.