Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
Concordia University
NSERC Chair in Aerospace Design Engineering (NCADE)
Chairs in Design Engineering Program
Associate Chairholder since 2015
The chair’s research program aims to understand and improve creative design activities in aerospace engineering. This research crosses many disciplines, including engineering design, artistic creation, computer science, management science, linguistics, neurocognitive science, mathematical science, and epistemology. The chair has proposed a new design theory and methodology, called environment-based design. Specific topics of the chair’s research include the science of design, a methodology for innovative and creative design, a neurocognitive model of design creativity, computer-aided conceptual design, and the interplay between linguistics and design creativity.
In this Chair program, Dr. Zeng will focus on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the undergraduate and graduate engineering student training, while developing and validating innovative methodologies directly applicable to aerospace design and development by applying his expertise in design research. These new processes and methodologies can support the delivery of the right product at the right time in the unique context of the aerospace industry. The program will explore the following four research tasks:
By integrating undergraduate teaching and learning with the practising aerospace community, this research provides an iterative and continuous improvement process characterized by strategy development and reform, implementation, evaluation, and feedback on curriculum and teaching. Through this Chair program, the cycle time to train new graduate students to be capable aerospace design engineers is expected to be greatly shortened.
Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
Concordia University
Email: zeng@ciise.concordia.ca
Website:
http://www.concordia.ca/encs/info-systems-eng/faculty.html?fpid=yong-zeng