by Dev Ramanujan | Jul 17, 2015 | Recent Publications
Abstract: This paper describes a framework for applying design for environment (DfE) within an industry setting. Our aim is to couple implicit design knowledge such as redesign/process constraints with quantitative measures of environmental performance to enable...
by Dev Ramanujan | Jul 17, 2015 | 2015, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, William Benjamin, William Z Bernstein
A large portion of design activity involves applying previous design knowledge in order to solve new problems. Therefore, facilitating eco-conscious exploration of archived designs is needed for advancing sustainable product design. It is thus necessary to create...
by Dev Ramanujan | Apr 20, 2015 | 2015, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Vinayak
Customer inputs in the early stages of design can potentially lead to completely new outlooks in concept generation. We propose crowd-based co-creation as a means to this end. Our main idea is to think of the customer as a source of initial design concepts rather than...
by Dev Ramanujan | Aug 29, 2014 | 2014, DESIGN METHOD, Design Representation, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, William Z Bernstein
This paper describes a framework for applying design for environment (DfE) within an industry setting. Our aim is to couple implicit design knowledge such as redesign/process constraints with quantitative measures of environmental performance to enable informed...
by Dev Ramanujan | Aug 15, 2014 | 2014, Design Learn, DESIGN METHOD, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, William Z Bernstein
Consideration of environmental sustainability is significantly altering the nature of the mechanical design process. This necessitates integration of sustainability related learning content in design engineering curricula. Although various frameworks for teaching...
