**Part 1 Engineering and Innovations Methods**

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**Chapter 8 115**

**Chapter 9 139**

*by Sérgio António Neves Lousada, João Pedro Gouveia and Rui Alexandre Castanho*

Propagation Buckling of Subsea Pipelines and Pipe-in-Pipe Systems

The Influence of Water Quality on the Structural Development of Vessels:

*by Hassan Karampour and Mahmoud Alrsai*

Smart Dimensioning Process

*Chapter One "How to deal with quantum leap innovations and free fall situations"* investigates three industrial case studies based on three different start situations for the development of the organization. These three situations are satisfying a market need; satisfying a want or a wish; and satisfying a creativity in combination with improvisation and the use of dynamic management and development methods. This study concludes an important aspect that the product and business development based on satisfying a *want* or a *wish* and mostly also a *need* does not follow linear or continuous curves. This makes the planning of activities difficult for practitioners. Therefore, people need to be creative, to improvise, and to use dynamic mind-settings and principles if they want to develop any successful innovations in their organization.

*Chapter Two "Service-Learning and civic engagement as the basis for engineering design education"* presents the pedagogy involved in service-learning that can be implemented to teach students the engineering design process. The similarities and differences of service-learning as implemented through engineering design are compared to community and civic engagement in disciplines such as social sciences. The study reveals the best practices in service-learning and civic engagement in engineering design produce better engineers and enables the profession to fulfill its highest purposes.

*Chapter Three "Divergent abduction model and its convergent interaction in knowledge production"* proposes a new approach that integrates the scientific method with the modified abductive method and its interaction with the inductive method based on divergence, establishing a new sequential form to search for and obtain alternatives in the generation of new theories by convergences, and in this way, gradually achieve a convergent procedure of support to produce new knowledge.

*Chapter Four "Personalizing course design, build and delivery using PLErify"* focuses on how a course building technique named PLErify was developed in response to emerging roles of faculty members and the need to implement their own teaching style in the technology driven teaching model as well as deep learning process. This study also explains an early attempt at pedagogy and trends that push the personalization movement for supporting the concept of personalized teaching and learning where technology application is most needed to make it more efficient, more effective, and more pragmatic.

*Chapter Five "Mechanical engineering design: going over the analysis-synthesis mountain to seed creativity"* demonstrates a change in delivering Mechanical Engineering Design (MED) to undergraduate students as an extension of Natural and Engineering Science. The study suggests a new teaching approach that attempts to align student thinking and learning activities with what exists in industrial MED. The new synthesis mode helps students build their self-confidence and better prepares them for industry.
