by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017, DESIGN METHOD, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, Recent Publications, William Z Bernstein
Most design activities involve exploring and comparing existing designs. Thus, adopting an eco-conscious approach in the design exploration process can aid environmentally sustainable product design (SPD). One approach for supporting exploration in SPD is through...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | 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...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Aug 7, 2016 | 2016, DESIGN METHOD, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, Publications, William Z Bernstein
In this paper, we present the methodology and results from the evaluation of shapeSIFT: a multi-dimensional visualization tool for exploring part repositories in the context of eco-conscious design. The goals of this work are twofold, to create a categorization scheme...
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 William Z Bernstein | Jul 17, 2015 | 2015, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, William Z Bernstein
In this paper, we present a novel visualization framework for product and supply chain metadata in the context of redesign-related decision scenarios. Our framework is based on the idea of overlaying product-related metadata onto the interactive graph representations...
by preciseadmin | Apr 24, 2015 | Devarajan Ramanujan, Joran Booth, News, Sujin Jang, William Z Bernstein
Bill Bernstein, Devarajan Ramanujan, Joran Booth, and Sujin Jang have received this year’s  Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Teaching Excellence (2015). This award, given by the the College of Engineering, recognizes outstanding teaching assistants...
