The document discusses the role of aesthetics in computer engineering. It defines computer engineering as involving both hardware and software design. The interviewee states that aesthetics is important because users enjoy using products that are beautiful. In hardware engineering, aesthetics influences product design and user satisfaction. In software development, aesthetics affects the graphical user interface and user-friendliness. The interviewee stresses that developing attractive software and choosing high-quality vendors is important. Overall, the study found that aesthetics improves user experience and satisfaction with computer engineering products.

1. The Role of Aesthetics
in Computer
Engineering
A Case Study

2. Introduction
Modern world‟s innovative
ideas all started from a single
imagination.

3. Introduction
Today‟s century is the Age of
Information and technology plays
a critical part in determining the
golden times of the era.
Computers were created to ease
life, to color it at the least.

4. Introduction
The problem with today‟s
education is not realizing
the importance of
Aesthetics in the curriculum,
especially the course of
Engineering.

5. Introduction
The aim of the researchers is
to determine the main
purpose of Aesthetics in the
field of Computer
Engineering.

6. Main Objectives
 To formulate the function of Aesthetics in
Hardware Engineering.
 To develop the concepts supporting
Programming and Software Engineering with
relation to Aesthetics.
 To identify the significance of Aesthetics to
Hardware-Software Integration.

7. Aesthetics
Aesthetics is the theory of the
perceptibility, appreciation,
responsiveness, and enjoyment
of the beautiful in art and nature
(Cometa, Aquino and Santillana, n.d.).

8. Aesthetics
Welsch (2003) summarized in his
paper that aesthetics is
considered as „artistics‟, as an
explication of art with particular
attention to beauty.

9. Aesthetics
It is the judgment of taste to cast
out what is beautiful.

10. Aesthetics in Engineering
It is only important that the researchers
determine the significance of Aesthetics in the
field of engineering as a whole so as to
determine the extents of Aesthetics in the sub-
fields of engineering. As stated:
Engineering involvement with aesthetics is vital
for the creation of innovative and successful
products in today‟s fast changing world.
(Faste, 1995)

11. Aesthetics in Engineering
With today‟s world bringing innovations
that would not just suffice human
needs but also their taste, it is just
important to consider Aesthetics in
the field of Engineering.

12. Computer Engineering
TryEngineering (n.d.) has specified the
tasks accomplished by a computer
engineer. It stated that computer
engineers analyze and evaluate
computer systems, both hardware
and software.

13. Computer Engineering
Researchers have deducted that
Computer Engineering is divided into
three major fields: Hardware
Engineering, Software Engineering
and Hardware-Software Integration.

14. Hardware Engineering
Hardware engineering tackles the
design and functionality of the
hardware devices and how they will
be properly built to be able to perform
functions connected to software

15. Hardware Engineering and
Aesthetics
The job of the computer engineers is to
ensure that their products are well-
defined with their features. Design
complements that of aesthetic value
of a product for this is what affects
the taste of a human being.

16. Software Engineering
Software engineering
concerns itself to the
programming of a system.

17. Software Engineering and
Aesthetics
As discussed in the design of hardware
engineering, humans will tend to use
programs that will be elegant in their
graphic user interface. It is already a
norm in the human mind to utilize
things that are perceived to be
beautiful in their own tastes.

18. Hardware-Software Integration
Hardware-software integration is
the proper connection of the
hardware and the software.

19. Company Profile
The interviewee of the researchers for
the conduct of the case study is Engr.
Mario Andal, Systems Administrator
of the Information Technology Center
(ITC) of the University of Batangas.

20. Role of Aesthetics in Computer
Engineering
Computer engineering, as defined by the
interviewee, is “the combination of computer
science and electrical engineering, both are
needed to create software and hardware.
Computer Engineering is involved from
designing Microprocessors to circuit design.
This field of engineering not only focuses on
how computer systems themselves work, but
also how they integrate into the larger picture.”

21. Role of Aesthetics in Computer
Engineering
“Aesthetics is really important in any software or
hardware products, because the user will
enjoy doing his work or job just by looking at
the thing he/she is using, [utilizing] beauty [for
satisfaction].”

22. Role of Aesthetics in Computer
Engineering
“Developing software [or] programs
must be eye-catching.”

23. Role of Aesthetics in Computer
Engineering
“We choose the vendor that has
products with high standards and
high quality.”

24. Role of Aesthetics in Computer
Engineering
“It (Aesthetics) is important [for] us
Computer Engineers. It makes
our life colorful, [and it allows us
to do] what [is] best, and that is
computer engineering.”

25. Synthesis
Computer engineering has been defined as an
analysis of computer systems both hardware
and software. While the interviewee related
the field with Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering, it can be deemed that computer
engineering covers hardware, as the concern
of Electrical Engineering, and software, as the
concern of Computer Science.

26. Synthesis
It was earlier defined that Aesthetics is the
philosophy of art and beauty, or the philosophy
of art and the aesthetic. Thus, the case study
was centered on how beauty affected the
practice of computer engineering.

27. Synthesis
The interview has stressed out that the design of
the hardware devices affect greatly the level of
satisfaction of the users to the extent that he
will have to choose sellers that produce high-
quality raw materials to produce high-quality
products.

28. Synthesis
The quality of the raw materials to be used was
highly emphasized by the interviewee as it
was pointed out in Chapter II. Before computer
engineers can build any product, they must
first assure that the raw materials to be used
are evaluated properly and ensured that they
will function.

29. Synthesis
Both literature presented concerning software
engineering and interviewee‟s point of view
regarding the application of Aesthetics in
software engineering pertained to how the
users would satisfactorily respond to the
developed software to the extent that will it be
user-friendly enough or not.

30. Synthesis
The elegance of the program could
critically determine the functionality of
the software itself as discussed in the
previous chapters.

31. Synthesis
The researchers have assumed that the
hardware-software integration cannot
create the significance of Aesthetics in
Computer Engineering for its concepts
are purely theoretical and scientific that
the researchers limited it to how the
software and hardware were individually
made to create aesthetic impacts to the
users or consumers.

32. Synthesis
The researchers have obtained results
centered on how the users will respond to
the products constructed for it is only
through there that Aesthetics can be
clearly seen with effects and functions.

33. Conclusion
From the data gathered and
analyzed, the researchers
have formulated the following
conclusions:

34. Conclusion
1. In hardware engineering, Aesthetics
pose significance to the creation of the
hardware devices with the user‟s level
of satisfaction of the hardware and the
utility of the product.

35. Conclusion
2. In software engineering, the
programs developed are created for
the users to efficiently maximize its
use. Aesthetics enters the scene with
the graphical user interface affecting
the user-friendliness of the program
and how the users will be satisfied
with programs developed.

36. Conclusion
3. Computer engineering utilizes
aesthetic judgment to create end-
products that would suffice the taste of
the users and the level of satisfaction
of the users.

37. Conclusion
4. With the vague definition of Aesthetics
defined in the previous, the aesthetic value
and judgment of taste greatly affect the
decision of the users to appreciate those
produced by the Computer Engineers. It is
through there that Aesthetic greatly defines
the art in Computer Engineering. The role of
Aesthetics is to ensure that the products will
cognitively and intuitively satisfy the users of
the software and hardware devices.