In the evolution of the Engineering Design theories in the last 50 years, it is possible to highlight the influence of the Systems Theory, the Scientific method, the analogies utilization, and others project oriented methods ...

This paper aims to relate these three approaches in the area of knowledge of engineering projects, engineering design, project engineering and project management, with some of the contributions of the scientific and technical ...

According the writers and historians Luca Antoccia and Carlo Pedretti "Leonardo can boast of having had an indisputable primacy, which places him at the head of the beginnings of modern scientific illustration, indeed, no ...

The project theorists emphasize the importance of the instruments and tools applicable to it, so the so-called systemic ones such as Hubka and Eder in their "Theory of Technical Systems" specify the need of knowing the ...

According to French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin, so-called analog thinking is one of the types of thinking that provides the best creative results. Starting from the abstraction and analysis of existing elements, ...

Leonardo, in one of his Notebooks wrote "never will produce an invention more beautiful, or simpler, or more appropriate than those made by Nature, because in their inventions nothing is lacking, nothing is superfluous", ...

Leonardo da Vinci improved and fully completed the drawings and sketches of the designs of the Italian engineers who were contemporaries or who preceded him. Thus, he improved the machine designs of Paolo Santini and ...

A large number of the devices, machines and mechanisms designed by Leonardo Da Vinci, represented in their nearly 7000 preserved manuscript pages, only reached the level of conceptual design. Most of Leonardo's ...