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Published in Colin R. Gagg, Forensic Engineering, 2020
Advantages of exploiting case study analysis across the engineering curriculum include providing a broader perspective on the issues, focusing on decision-making processes, revealing the range of analytical tools required for analysis, highlighting organisational structures (and barriers) within a company, stressing uncertainty, ambiguity and risk and emphasising the role of politics (both internal and external) in the final outcomes.[18] Any case study analysis should therefore be designed to extend the learning experience beyond both the classroom and laboratory. Furthermore, as hands-on laboratory training is becoming an exception, rather than the norm, engineering case study exposure will offer the potential to bridge the ever-widening practical experience gap. Well-researched and -written case studies will impart a positive impact on students’ practical engineering learning experience, rather than simply relying on virtual learning alone. One result of exposure to ‘experience-by-proxy’ is that young engineers will be armed with the (often intangible) benefit of taking this knowledge and dawning intuition with them into the work force.
The Challenge of Performing Research Which Will Contribute Helpful Engineering Knowledge Concerning Emergence
Published in Larry B. Rainey, Mo Jamshidi, Engineering Emergence, 2018
“Case studies” is used here to refer to researcher initiated investigations motivated by the researcher’s purpose of discovering the facts and relationships relevant to a case. A case study investigation is conducted by finding available materials and possibly obtaining primary data collection from participants or measurement of the case and other similar sources. The case study method is commonly used in some fields, among which are investigation of engineering projects, and engineering accidents and disasters. In these investigations “emergence” is often a phenomenon that makes the particular case interesting to investigate, for example because there is something instructive about how a project progressed, or an accident occurred because of an unexpected effect of the confluence of factors, matching one of the common views of “emergence” discussed in Section 14.2.
Action, Entrepreneurship and Energy
Published in Alison E. Woodward, Jerry Ellig, Tom R. Burns, Municipal Entrepreneurship and Energy Policy, 2019
Alison E. Woodward, Jerry Ellig, Tom R. Burns
Ignorance, uncertainty, creativity and change are fundamental aspects of human action. Given that reality, theories of entrepreneurship become an important tool for understanding how economic, political and social processes actually work. The very nature of innovation implies several general principles that case study techniques are well suited to illustrate. The following generalizations about entrepreneurship helped guide our empirical research:
Mass timber: evaluating construction performance
Published in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2018
Ryan E. Smith, Gentry Griffin, Talbot Rice, Benjamin Hagehofer-Daniell
This research utilizes a case study method. The case study method is a common strategy used in built environment evaluations wherein projects are identified and documented for quantitative and qualitative data through interviews and literature review (Groat & Wang, 2002; Yin, 2008). The case study MTC project pool has been established in consultation with an Advisory Board.1 The selection of the 18 cases documented are based on the following: Access to available archival data and willingness of stakeholders to participate and offer additional data. The pool of projects started with dozens of samples; however, some project stakeholders were reluctant to share data. The pool of this study consists of projects for which stakeholders were forthcoming with information;Diversity of project sizes, locations and building types in order to see MTC across sectors, countries and cultures; andCulturally significant buildings were selected based on architectural impact. The goal of the study is to demonstrate how MTC performs with respect to different building types, sizes, and delivery methods.
Social life cycle performance of additive manufacturing in the healthcare industry: the orthosis and prosthesis cases
Published in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2021
Bruno Soares, Inês Ribeiro, Gonçalo Cardeal, Marco Leite, Helena Carvalho, Paulo Peças
This research follows a qualitative design since the researchers’ goal is to understand a multi-disciplinary phenomena (the social impacts of AM) about which there is a lack of knowledge and little evidence in the literature. Therefore, a case study methodology is going to be used. The case study methodology has its roots in the broader field of social sciences, in particular ethnographic studies and anthropology (Voss, Tsikriktsis, and Frohlich 2002). However, it is widely extended to the operations management and engineering domains. In systems engineering, for instance, the case study is a common approach to model and propose new practices (Caillaud, Rose, and Goepp 2016).
Challenges for integrated design (ID) in sustainable buildings
Published in Construction Management and Economics, 2019
Ricardo Leoto, Gonzalo Lizarralde
A case-study approach is a reliable means of capturing rich information in complex situations, such as construction projects since case studies allow the investigator to retain the holistic and meaningful characteristics of real-life events (Barrett and Sutrisna 2009, Yin 2003). This strategy is employed to inductively generate insights regarding the phenomenon to be studied (Ogawa and Malen 1991). In an exploratory case study, qualitative data analysis involves an iterative process of observation, analysis, and reflexion on categories of analysis (Mills et al.2010).