University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

 alegendre@umassd.edu

 Primary IDETC conference(s) :DEC

Part time student, part time tri-athlete, and full time research and development engineer for a 3D printing manufacturer. I believe in long work days and optimizing time spent eating.

Assistant Professor

Portland State University

 ajh26@pdx.edu

   

Primary Conference -  MR

I developed a a generalizable model of a braided pneumatic actuator that accounts for the geometry and limitations of the actuator at shorter lengths. This actuator serves as an artificial muscle on my bio-inspired robots and this better model has lead to more accurate control. 

 Dr. Alexander Hunt’s expertise lies in applying fundamental principles of biology to engineering systems and optimizing processes to maximize performance. He has worked in developing control models of animal locomotion grounded in neuroscience and computational neuroscience. His controllers demonstrate how real and hypothesized neural architectures can be used to produce adaptive walking for mobile robot systems. Prior to his appointment at Portland State University, he conducted research at the Advanced Platform Technology Center in Cleveland, Ohio (a Department of Veterans Affairs Center of Excellence for Rehabilitation Research and Development) where his work explored optimization of electrical stimulation control systems in human subjects with spinal cord injuries. His previous research also includes the design and construction of a mobile robot for use in urban search and rescue as well as a control systems project in 3D metal printing.

Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Product Design Concentration Founder and Head Advisor, MEng Program

Chair, Development Engineering Graduate Group

Education Director, Blum Center for Developing Economies

agogino@berkeley.edu

Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and is affiliated faculty at the Haas School of Business and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Mexico, M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley and Ph.D. from the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford University. 

Agogino has served in a number of administrative positions including Chair of the UC Berkeley Academic Senate, Director of the Instructional Technology Program and Associate Dean of Engineering. She is currently Chair of the Graduate Group in Development Engineering and the Education Director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies. She directs research in BEST Lab, which stands for Berkeley Energy and Sustainability Technologies, or the Berkeley Expert Systems Technologies or the Berkeley Emergent Space Tensegrities Lab, depending on the context. She is founder and major advisor of the UC Berkeley Product Design MEng program. She co-directs the Berkeley Institute of Design, the Human-Centered Design course threads, and the Engineering and Business for Sustainability graduate certificate program. Agogino has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and has won numerous teaching, mentoring, best paper and research awards including AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award in 2012, the ASME Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award in 2015 and co-authored the Design Theory & Methods Best Paper Awards in 1991, 2004 and 2016. She has supervised 50 PhD dissertations and 187 MS theses/reports. 

Ph.D. Student

Stevens Institute of Technology

azadbood@stevens.edu

Primary IDETC conference : DAC

I will be presenting a paper about the use of agent-based modeling to support design for market systems analysis

Amineh Zadbood is a first-year Ph.D. student in Systems Engineering working on design for market systems under supervision of Dr. Steven Hoffenson at Stevens Institute of Technology. Her research is about exploring new ways to improve decision-based design and design for markets systems analysis with interdisciplinary systems modeling approaches to design more sustainable products and systems. She received her master’s degree in Industrial Engineering with a concentration on Socio-Economic Systems Engineering and her bachelor’s degree was in Applied Mathematics.

Assistant Professor

University of Toledo

BRIAN.TREASE@UTOLEDO.EDU

* Primary IDETC conference-MR

The MR conference is the core community for most of my interests. I have been participating since 2001. I also run the annual ASME Student Mechanism & Robotics Design Competition.

Brian Trease received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2008, after which he spent eight years working at NASA JPL in Pasadena, CA. His specialties include mechanism design, optimization, flexible systems, and deployable structures. At NASA, Dr. Trease was a research technologist in compliant mechanisms, printable spacecraft, rover mobility, and solar sail development. At UT, he teaches Machine

Design and Senior Capstone. His current research interests include origami-inspired design, biomimicry, swarm robotics, and autonomous robotics for environmental remediation.  

Assistant Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology

Cassandra@gatech.edu

Primary conferences - DFMLC, DAC

Dr. Telenko participates in DFMLC to learn about current issues and advances in design for the lifecycle and sustainable design. Dr. Telenko participates in DAC to examine how automation and computation can aid design for the life cycle and sustainability.

Dr. Cassandra Telenko is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Telenko's work in eco-design results in methods for analyzing environmental impacts of design decisions, redesigning products for energy efficiency, modeling usage contexts, and providing actionable guidelines to help designers reduce environmental impacts. Her work on design for environment guidelines has been published in multiple languages and is used for sustainability practice and education internationally. Dr. Telenko also serves on the Design Society's international EcoDesign SIG steering committee. Her prior appointments include a postdoctoral research position in the MIT-SUTD International Design Centre with joint appointments at MIT and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). She received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to fund her graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin where she completed her MSE (2009) and PhD (2012) in Mechanical Engineering. 

Assistant Professor

University of Nebraska at Omaha

School of Interdisciplinary Informatics

ctoh@unomaha.edu

Christine Toh is an Assistant Professor in IT Innovation in the School of Interdisciplinary Informatics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She obtained her PhD in Industrial Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University in August 2016. Her research focuses on studying human decision-making and the antecedents of creativity in design, and developing an understanding of the larger context of innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering and technology settings. Christine has taught classes on IT Innovation, Interaction Design, and Product Dissection. Her research to date has spanned topics such as individual attributes and biases in team decision-making, information use in for-profit design streams, and user perceptions of trust with automated technologies. 

Christine participates primarily in DTM and DEC- The study of creativity and methods that support creativity in the design process and education is the main focus of her research, and DTM and DEC provides an excellent outlet for this research interest along with the opportunity to meet other like-minded researchers.

Graduate Research Assistant

Florida Institute of Technology

Ekames2011@my.fit.edu

Primary conference: DFMLC

DFMLC provides a great opportunity to network with the best in the field of design for manufacturability.

Elisabeth Kames is originally from Aurora, IL. She graduated with her Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology in May 2015 and her Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Dynamic Systems- Robotics and Controls from Florida Institute of Technology in December 2016. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering under the guidance of Dr. Beshoy Morkos. Her research thrust is in engineering education. Elisabeth is a member of ASME, ASEE, SWE, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and Pi Tau Sigma International Mechanical Engineering Honor Society. 

PhD Candidate

The Pennsylvania State University

ems413@psu.edu

Primary IDETC conference(s) : DEC and DTM

My research is focuses on design education and creativity, so both DEC and DTM are relevant to my work

I am a PhD candidate in industrial engineering at Penn State. I am entering my 4th, and hopefully final, year of grad school and my dissertation research is focused on how product dissection (the systematic process for taking apart and analyzing all parts of a product) impacts learning and creativity in engineering education. Specifically my work investigates how the type of product and the environment in which the product is dissected (virtual or physical) impacts learning about the product and impacts creativity of ideas generated for a design task. The results of this research will be used to provide recommendations for the use of product dissection in engineering design education.

Research Assistant

Cleveland State

huawei.wang.buaa@gmail.com

Primary IDETC conference(s) - MSNDC

Huawei received his Bachelor Degree of Engineering at the Civil Aviation University of China in 2012 and a Master Degree of Control Theory and Engineering in Beihang University in 2015. He worked in the Robotics and Automation Lab at Tsinghua University for a year, gaining experiences in human push recovery strategies and intelligent control system design for transfemoral prostheses. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at Cleveland State, with an interest in control identification in human motion and intelligent controllers for transfemoral prostheses.

University of Michigan

Primary IDETC conference – DEC reason - I'm interested in understanding students' design practices and developing design tools that students can use.

Jin Woo Lee is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Binghamton University. His research focuses on investigating front-end design practices. His current projects include exploring students’ idea generation tendencies, studying the effectiveness of idea generation tools, and analyzing contextual constraints that affect ideation.

Northwestern University & Dalian University of Technology

junhu@northwestern.edu

Primary IDETC conference(s) : DTM

Florida Institute of Technology

nvoris2013@my.fit.edu

Primary IDETC Conferences: CIE, DAC, DTM, DEC

 After I graduate, I would like to get a job within industry and to build my experience using the tools that I’ve learned in school to make me a more effective and efficient engineer. Then, I would like to go back into academia, having decided on a good research topic, to pursue a doctorate in mechanical engineering and then a professorship at a university (that I have not yet decided upon). If I am able, I would like to come back to Dr. Morkos after my time in industry to study under him once again.

Graduate student

College of Information Science & Technology, University of Nebraska Omaha

 ndamen@unomaha.edu

Primary IDETC conference(s) : CIE

Attending this conference is a great opportunity for me to become better acquainted with academia and involve myself with the community. Conferences are a great place to get to know the people in the field and catch up with colleagues. I am still new to the field, so I am especially looking forward to learning what is out there, what people are working on and even bounce some ideas.   

After completing her undergraduate in Psychology and Business Communication (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands), Nicole Damen is currently working on completing a double graduate degree in M.S. Management Information Systems (University of Nebraska Omaha, United States) and in M.A. Management, Communication and IT (Management Center Innsbruck, Austria). In order to better understand the ways in which technology can support and improve the quality of human life, her thesis focusses on the dynamics between human trust and technology. Specifically, she is interested in how human perceptions of trust are related to and interact with home automation technologies.  

PhD candidate

Huazhong University of Science & Technology

qizhouhust@gmail.com

Primary IDETC conference(s) will you be participating: DAC 

Qi Zhou is a Ph.D. candidate at School of Mechanical Science & Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology

Division of Machine Elements, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 

Lund University, Lund, Sweden

rikard.hjelm@mel.lth.se

Primary IDETC conference: Power Transmission and Gearing Conference, PTG

I conduct my research on the topic of involute gears: how to model them and simulate the gear set. Also, I have a general interest in mechanisms and transmissions. Therefore the conference will help deepen and broaden my knowledge and understanding of transmissons. Also, it is a good opportunity for meeting other researchers in the same or similar fields.

I was born and raised in southern Sweden. After finishing school, and military service in the army, I went into engineering and received a master’s degree in engineering physics. As I specialized in computational mechanics, it felt natural to shift towards mechanical engineering. This led me to machine elements, which is my research field. I strive to find a very general way to simulate a gear set to establish its properties, such as contact pressure. This is done by creating and implementing a parametric model. The model also includes a description of manufacturing errors that inevitably will be found on the gears.

PhD Student

Georgia Institute of Technology

rsong8@gatech.edu

Primary IDETC conference(s): DFMLC

 I participate in the DFMLC since my current study focuses on evaluating the impacts of design to manufacturing from failure and building costs perspectives. And I am participating in the DFMLC Student Poster Competition on Data-Driven X for the Life Cycle, and have been identified as one of the four finalists for the competition. 

Ruoyu Song is a second-year Ph.D. student in the CASS Lab of Georgia Institute of Technology studying Mechanical Engineering. She received both her BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Ruoyu’s general research interests include sustainable design, product life-cycle analysis, and product line design. Her current studies focus on the failure modes in both additive and subtractive manufacturing, and the impacts of design to manufacturing processes. This research aims to develop software to facilitate design of environmentally-friendly products with decreased possibilities of manufacturing failures.

PhD Student

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

suzchou@umich.edu

Suzanne Chou is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She earned her B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015. She then worked for 9 months at LIM Innovations as an R&D Engineer, leading the design of a novel prosthetic socket for children. She is currently working on the design methodology involved in creating sustainable systems in emerging markets.

Phd Student

Tokyo Institute of Technology

xinghai0823@gmail.com

Primary IDETC conference(s): MR, MESA

Since I am doing research on the development and design of the parallel robot which can be used in surgery application, I want to know the recent advances made in mechanical engineering, robotics, mechatronic, and the medical and rehabilitation applications in these areas, then to learn from the experts in these areas.

Xinghai Liang is a 1st year Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering of Tokyo Institute of Technology and doing research on the development and design of the parallel robot. He received B.S in Applied Physics and was studying the semi-casting of aluminum alloys during his master’s studies. Even those in congruent education backgrounds may not have him be an expert or elite in robotics, he is always curious about new knowledge and interested in other subjects besides engineering.

Post-doctoral Fellow

Northwestern University

youyi.bi@northwestern.edu

Primary IDETC conferences that I will be participating: DAC and DTM

Hi there! My name is Youyi Bi and I am a Post-doctoral Fellow in Northwestern University. I obtained my PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 2017. My research interests include engineering education, decision-making and optimization in mechanical design, psychoacoustics in product design, and design theory and methodology.

Student

Beihang University

zhjh19851101@163.com

Primary IDETC conference: CIE

ASME IDETC is the important international conference in product design technology, and CIE is related of my research interests. I want to know about the development tendency about CAD, CIE, etc. by attending this conference, and I hope to make some friends in these domains.

ZHOU Jianhui, born in 1985, is currently a PhD candidate at Beihang University, China. My research interests include knowledge management and design theory and method.

Beijing University of Technology

zhangzhuozz123@126.com

Primary IDETC conference(s): MNS

I was working on the dynamics of the electrothermal microactuators, and MNS is more appropriate for me.

Zhuo Zhang was born in China in 1988. He has been studying for PhD degree in mechanical engineering at Beijing University of Technology since 2012. His research area includes electro-thermal actuators, compliant mechanisms, and micro-robotics.