The emergence and adoption of computational technologies has significantly changed design and design education beyond the replacement of drawing boards with computers or pens and paper with computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), and computer-aided engineering (CAE) applications.

Computational Design Methods and Technologies: Applications in CAD, CAM and CAE Education explores state-of-the-art developments in computational design methods and their impact on contemporary design education. Readers will find case studies, empirical research findings, pedagogical theories, and reflections. Researchers, educators, designers, and developers will better understand how applying pedagogical research and reflection has influenced and will continue to transform the field in the future.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Augmented Reality in Design Curriculum
Computational Design Applications
Computational Design in Education
Computational Design Methods and Technologies
Computational Design Pedagogy
Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)
Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
Interactive Architecture Design
Parametric Design

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This book reflects on the current trends and inspires future extensions in the advancement of computational design methods and technologies as well as the evolvement of design and education under such influences, by exploring and challenging the interactive relationships between the two. With such foci, the book provides unique references for design research, education and practice [...]

– Ning Gu, University of Newcastle, Australia and Xiangyu Wang, Curtin University, Australia

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Ning Gu is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He researches in the broad areas of design computing. He is particularly interested in collaborative design, generative design, and virtual worlds. Ning is a pioneer of applying leading-edge Information Technologies in design and learning, and has established an international collaborative design studio using Second Life. He has also designed and implemented a wide variety of collaborative virtual environments and applied them in his teaching and research in numerous Australian and international tertiary design institutions including the University of Newcastle, the University of Sydney, MIT, and Columbia University. He has published extensively in the fields of design computing and design education.

Xiangyu Wang is Professor in the School of Built Environment at Curtin University. Dr. Wang is an internationally recognized leading researcher in the field of Virtual (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC), Education, and Training. He was awarded US National Science Foundation grant to investigate the skill development and transfer from virtual training systems. His current focus is on Building Information Modelling (BIM), AR, and VR integration for AEC and Education/Training. He is the Chair of Australian National Committee of International Society in Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ISCCBE). He has been invited to give several keynote speeches in BIM research and industrial conferences in Asian area. His work has been published into over 170 refereed books, book chapters, technical journals, and conference papers.

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Editorial Advisory Board

Kirsty Beilharz, University of Technology - Sydney, Australia
Dean Bruton, Southern Cross University, Australia
Carlos Calderón, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Gabriela Celani, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil
Scott Chase, Aalborg University, Denmark
Nancy Cheng, University of Oregon, United State of America
José P. Duarte, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Halil Erhan, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Leman Figen Gul, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
Christiane Herr, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Brian Johnson, University of Washington, United State of America
Julie Jupp, University of Technology - Sydney, Australia
Karen Kensek, University of Southern California, United State of America
Andrew Li, Athlone Research, Japan
Russell Loveridge, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Russell Lowe, University of New South Wales, Australia
Michael J. Ostwald, University of Newcastle, Australia
Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Marc Aurel Schnabel, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Vishal Singh, Deakin University, Australia
Beng-Kiang Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Anthony Williams, University of Newcastle, Australia
Theodor Wyeld, Flinders University, Australia