設計者

English translation: design engineer

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Japanese term or phrase:設計者
English translation:design engineer
Entered by: Mari Hodges

19:33 Mar 2, 2011
Japanese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Manufacturing / design
Japanese term or phrase: 設計者
This company refers to the person who creates a design of a product as a デザイナー, and this person hands the design off to a 設計者。What could a 設計者 be called, if not a designer?

Thank you for any help.
Mari Hodges
Local time: 18:43
design engineer
Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_engineer
Design engineer is a general term that covers multiple engineering disciplines including electrical, mechanical and civil engineering, architectural engineers in the U.S. and building engineers in the U.K.
The design engineer is distinguished from the designer/drafter by virtue of the fact that a design engineer takes care of the inner workings/engineering of a design. While industrial designers may be responsible for the conceptual aesthetic and ergonomic aspects of a design, the design engineer usually works with a team of engineers and designers to develop the preliminary design and the most critical parts. He/she may work with industrial designers and marketing to develop the product concept and specifications, and he/she may direct the design effort from that point. Products are usually designed with input from a number of sources such as manufacturing, purchasing, tool making and packaging engineering.

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設計者
engineer
・Bring the subjective, aesthetic world of the designer and the objective, metric-driven environment of the engineer into harmony.
・Industrial engineer is concerned with the effectiveness, economy, and control of product manufactue.
・Automakers are adding production engineers to their design teams to spur a more economical approach to new ideas.
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JapanLegal
Japan
Local time: 06:43
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2design engineer
JapanLegal
4 +1Spec (specification) engineer
fumipi829
3developer/supervisor
Jason Kang
2Draftperson
V N Ganesh


  

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design engineer


Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_engineer
Design engineer is a general term that covers multiple engineering disciplines including electrical, mechanical and civil engineering, architectural engineers in the U.S. and building engineers in the U.K.
The design engineer is distinguished from the designer/drafter by virtue of the fact that a design engineer takes care of the inner workings/engineering of a design. While industrial designers may be responsible for the conceptual aesthetic and ergonomic aspects of a design, the design engineer usually works with a team of engineers and designers to develop the preliminary design and the most critical parts. He/she may work with industrial designers and marketing to develop the product concept and specifications, and he/she may direct the design effort from that point. Products are usually designed with input from a number of sources such as manufacturing, purchasing, tool making and packaging engineering.

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http://www.proz.com/kudoz/japanese_to_english/mechanics_mech...

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Note added at 8 mins (2011-03-02 19:41:22 GMT)
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http://www.transwd.com/dico/dicoJ14.htm
設計者
engineer
・Bring the subjective, aesthetic world of the designer and the objective, metric-driven environment of the engineer into harmony.
・Industrial engineer is concerned with the effectiveness, economy, and control of product manufactue.
・Automakers are adding production engineers to their design teams to spur a more economical approach to new ideas.

JapanLegal
Japan
Local time: 06:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in JapaneseJapanese
PRO pts in category: 11
Grading comment
Thank you all for your ideas

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agree  Yuki Okada
25 mins
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agree  Tomoyuki Kono
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developer/supervisor


Explanation:
Probably they have a developer supervising all the product development procedure and the designer taking only on the design (shape) of the product. If so, 設計者 could mean the developer.

Jason Kang
Canada
Local time: 14:43
Native speaker of: Native in KoreanKorean
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Spec (specification) engineer


Explanation:
It may differ from company to company, but at the automaker I used to work with, they tried to distinguish between クルマのエクステリアデザインを創案するヒトをexterior designer とか、stylistと呼び、諸元の設計に関るヒトをspec engineerと区別していました。

fumipi829
Local time: 14:43
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

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agree  Yumico Tanaka (X)
2 hrs
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Draftperson


Explanation:
CAD Draftperson (Architecture & Interior) Using CAD (computer-aided design) software, you will need to produce technical drawings or blueprints of various objects.

www.limkokwing.net/prospective/finder_malaysia/cad_draftper...

V N Ganesh
Local time: 03:13
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20
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