A closer look at design

Set up about one year ago, the IEE Programme & Publications Committee´s Design Subcommittee has been providing a focal point for design activity within the IEE. One of the projects arranged by the Subcommittee last May was a Colloquium on ´Design Innovation´ held at Savoy Place (27th June 1974 IEE News, p. 1). The Subcommittee is also sponsoring articles on design for publication from time to time in Electronics & Power. The first of these articles, by Dr. R Hawley, Chairman of the Subcommittee, appears on pages 747-752 of this issue. The Subcommittee regard good design as a vital, and often much neglected, subject in the engineering world, and when asked for their views on design, members of the Subcommittee replied as set out in this article.