This site is being developed as a resource for the Good Design Practice program, a joint initiative between the Institute for Manufacturing and the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge, and the Department of Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. The program aims to provide support to companies in developing and improving their product design capability as part of the new product introduction process.

The Design Engineering Lab conducts research in the area of design theory and methodology. If you are unfamiliar with the field, it is basically the study of the science of design.