Kurt Becker – författare

Design Thinking: Theory and Practice aims to provide readers with an in-depth understanding of design thinking by documenting the personal insights of professionals and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines.

“Design Thinking” refers to a series of cognitive, strategic and practical steps used during the process of designing and the context of how people reason when they engage with solving problems. The scope of this book focuses on topics such as problem solving, systems thinking, innovation, and the role of design in product design and services. This book is unique as it brings together “stories” from both academics and practitioners’ perspectives, enabling readers to view design thinking from many different outlooks that can be applied in different life situations or for organizations when developing plans and policies.

This book would be essential reading for design engineers, industrial designers, and mechanical engineers who have interest in design thinking.

Design Thinking: Theory and Practice aims to provide readers with an in-depth understanding of design thinking by documenting the personal insights of professionals and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines.

“Design Thinking” refers to a series of cognitive, strategic and practical steps used during the process of designing and the context of how people reason when they engage with solving problems. The scope of this book focuses on topics such as problem solving, systems thinking, innovation, and the role of design in product design and services. This book is unique as it brings together “stories” from both academics and practitioners’ perspectives, enabling readers to view design thinking from many different outlooks that can be applied in different life situations or for organizations when developing plans and policies.

This book would be essential reading for design engineers, industrial designers, and mechanical engineers who have interest in design thinking.

This book provides the reader with an introduction to the physics of complex plasmas, a discussion of the specific scientific and technical challenges they present and an overview of their potential technological applications.

Complex plasmas differ from conventional high-temperature plasmas in several ways: they may contain additional species, including nano meter- to micrometer-sized particles, negative ions, molecules and radicals and they may exhibit strong correlations or quantum effects. This book introduces the classical and quantum mechanical approaches used to describe and simulate complex plasmas. It also covers some key experimental techniques used in the analysis of these plasmas, including calorimetric probe methods, IR absorption techniques and X-ray absorption spectroscopy.

The final part of the book reviews the emerging applications of microcavity and microchannel plasmas, the synthesis and assembly of nanomaterials through plasma electrochemistry, the large-scale generation of ozone using microplasmas and novel applications of atmospheric-pressure non-thermal plasmas in dentistry.

Going beyond the scope of traditional plasma texts, the presentation is very well suited for senior undergraduate, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers specializing in plasma physics.