Dr Steven P MacGregor, (formerly of) DMEM, University of Strathclyde
Visiting researcher, Center for Design Research, Stanford University, 2001
I was a visting researcher at the Center for Design Research during 2001, working with Larry Leifer. Industrial site visits and data collection took place at Sun Microsystems, Ideo, Microsoft and Arena Solutions with academic interviews throughout campus and trial experiments run in CDR´s Design Observatory.
The visit to Stanford was part of a wider research tour of the US and Canada which also included posts at Saul Greenberg's GroupLab research group at the University of Calgary and Eswaran Subrahmanian´s n-dim research group at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Conference attendance also take place at CSCW in Design, London Ontario and the ASME Design Engineering and Technical Conferences in Pittsburgh.
I completed my thesis in December 2002 and defended in February 2003 with Chris McMahon of Bath University as external examiner.
Cheers, Steven MacGregor
DOWNLOADS/LINKS
June 1 Presentation
2001, Center for Design Research, Stanford, CA, Engineering Design
Literature - A View from Glasgow. [Click
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(448 KB)
Introductory presentation discussing personal literature, the design community worldwide and the evolution of engineering design over the last 40 years.
August 1
2001 Presentation, Center for Design Research, Stanford, CA, Examining
Worldwide
Collaboration through Collaboration Worldwide: The Stanford Experience.
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(339 KB)
Final presentation discussing the impact of the Stanford term on the PhD.
PhD project
flyer giving overview of research and research activities in the US and
Canada. [Click
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(111 KB)