The following topics has been drawn. It is based upon the two earlier Norddesign 2006 and 2008 with some additional topics that are of great interest for the research conducted at Chalmers and the Wingquist Laboratory.
Product development
- Platform based development and configuration
- Design for Life Cycle
- Information management issues throughout the product lifecycle
- Conceptualization and innovative thinking
Industrial design engineering
- Multidisciplinary collaborative design
- Human machine interaction
Engineering design - Design methodology
- Design for X
- Design for assembly
- Assembly and joining sequence optimization
- Robust Design
- Virtual product and production system development and visualization
- Geometrical interface configuration and optimization
Design research approaches and methodologies
Engineering design education
