FabHandWear : An End-to-End Pipeline from Design to Fabrication of Customized Functional Hand Wearables

FabHandWear : An End-to-End Pipeline from Design to Fabrication of Customized Functional Hand Wearables

by | Jun 28, 2021 | 2021, Devarajan Ramanujan, Featured Publications, Karthik Ramani, Luis Paredes, Publications, Recent Publications, Subramanian Chidambaram, Yunbo Zhang

Current hand wearables have limited customizability, they are loose-fit to an individual’s hand and lack comfort. The main barrier in customizing hand wearables is the geometric complexity and size variation in hands. Moreover, there are different functions that...
Integrating environmental sustainability in undergraduate mechanical engineering courses using guided discovery instruction

Integrating environmental sustainability in undergraduate mechanical engineering courses using guided discovery instruction

by | Oct 6, 2018 | 2018, DESIGN METHOD, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Publications

In this paper, we discuss a guided discovery instruction approach for integrating environmental sustainability in undergraduate mechanical engineering courses. To validate the proposed approach, we conducted two studies with students in a computer-aided design and...
Visual Analytics Tools for Sustainable Lifecycle Design: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities.

Visual Analytics Tools for Sustainable Lifecycle Design: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Opportunities.

by | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017, DESIGN METHOD, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, Recent Publications, Senthil Chandrasegaran, William Z Bernstein

The rapid rise in technologies for data collection has created an unmatched opportunity to advance the use of data-rich tools for lifecycle decision-making. However, the usefulness of these technologies is limited by the ability to translate lifecycle data into...