Journal of Mechanical Design: Recent submissions
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Customized Product Configuration Rule Intelligent Extraction and Dynamic Updating Method Based on the Least Recently Used Dynamic Decision Tree
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)In the traditional customized product (CP) configuration design system, the configuration rules in the database usually rely on the manual input and maintenance of experienced designers. In complex product design, configuration ... -
Independence or Interaction? Understanding the Benefits and Limitations of Nominally Inspired and Interacting Sub-Structured Teams in a Virtual and Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Task
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Teams are common throughout engineering practice and industry when solving complex, interdisciplinary problems. Previous works in engineering problem solving have studied the effectiveness of teams and individuals, showing ... -
Artificial Intelligence Impersonating a Human: The Impact of Design Facilitator Identity on Human Designers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) offer new opportunities for human–AI cooperation in engineering design. Human trust in AI is a crucial factor in ensuring an effective human–AI cooperation, and several approaches ... -
Evaluating Designer Learning and Performance in Interactive Deep Generative Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Deep generative models have shown significant promise in improving performance in design space exploration. But there is limited understanding of their interpretability, a necessity when model explanations are desired and ... -
Greetings From the New Editor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)As I begin my term (January 2023–December 2027) as Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, I would like to offer a few thoughts on the current state of the journal and the many opportunities for growth ... -
2022 Reviewers With Distinction Award
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The Journal of Mechanical Design Reviewers with Distinction Award is given to reviewers who have made a meritorious contribution to the journal in terms of the number, quality, and turnaround time of reviews completed ... -
Reviewer’s Recognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The Editor and Editorial Board of the Journal of Mechanical Design would like to thank all of the reviewers for volunteering their expertise and time reviewing manuscripts in 2022. Serving as reviewers for the journal is ... -
Design-as-a-Service Framework for Enabling Innovations in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Modern manufacturing enterprises must be agile to cope with sudden demand changes arising from increased global competition, geopolitical factors, and unforeseen circumstances such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Small- and ... -
Error Management Bias in Student Design Teams
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This research examines how cognitive bias manifests in the design activities of graduate student design teams, with a particular focus on how to uncover evidence of these biases through survey-based data collection. After ... -
Not Good Enough? Exploring Relationships Between Novice Designers’ Trait Empathy, Their Beliefs, Attitudes, and Intentions Toward Sustainability, and the Self-Evaluated Sustainability of Their Solutions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Designers’ empathy plays an important role in supporting socially conscious design. Although widely studied in engineering design, a majority of the research on empathy focuses on designers’ ability to empathize with primary ... -
Prototyping Strategies to Engage Stakeholders During Early Stages of Design: A Study Across Three Design Domains
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Using prototypes to engage stakeholders during front-end design activities is crucial for successful design outcomes. Compared to prototyping that is used for iterative refinement during back-end engineering design activities, ... -
Embedding Experiential Design Knowledge in Interactive Knowledge Graphs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Knowledge collection, extraction, and organization are critical activities in all aspects of the engineering design process. However, it remains challenging to surface and organize design knowledge, which often contains ... -
Generative Design: Reframing the Role of the Designer in Early-Stage Design Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Generative design tools empowered by recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) offer the opportunity for human designers and design tools to collaborate in new, more advanced modes throughout various stages of ... -
Attention-Enhanced Multimodal Learning for Conceptual Design Evaluations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Conceptual design evaluation is an indispensable component of innovation in the early stage of engineering design. Properly assessing the effectiveness of conceptual design requires a rigorous evaluation of the outputs. ... -
Biologically Inspired Design Concept Generation Using Generative Pre-Trained Transformers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Biological systems in nature have evolved for millions of years to adapt and survive the environment. Many features they developed can be inspirational and beneficial for solving technical problems in modern industries. ... -
Task-Oriented Methodology Combining Human Manual Gestures and Robotic Grasp Stability Analyses: Application to the Specification of Dexterous Robotic Grippers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The objective of this article is to present a comprehensive task analysis methodology that can provide guidelines for the design of dexterous robotic grippers that are versatile enough to perform various tasks, yet simple ... -
DDE-GAN: Integrating a Data-Driven Design Evaluator Into Generative Adversarial Networks for Desirable and Diverse Concept Generation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in various generative design tasks, from topology optimization to material design, and shape parametrization. However, most generative design approaches ... -
A Computational Approach to Identifying Engineering Design Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Identifying new problems and providing solutions are necessary tasks for design engineers at early-stage product design and development. A new problem fosters innovative and inventive solutions. Hence, it is expected that ... -
A Hybrid Semantic Networks Construction Framework for Engineering Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper proposes a novel framework for building semantic networks from a seed design statement using Recursive Object Modeling (ROM), Word2Vec language modeling, and vector semantic-based method. Semantic Scholar API ... -
Constructing Product Usage Context Knowledge Graph Using User-Generated Content for User-Driven Customization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)User-driven customization is a particular design paradigm where customers act as co-designers to configure products based on their needs. However, due to insufficient product usage experience, customers may design a product ...