Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
September 28 to October 2, 2004

16th ASME International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM)

General Information

The 16th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM) will be part of the ASME 2004 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information In Engineering Conference, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from September 28 to October 2, 2004.

This conference is sponsored by the Design Theory and Methodology Committee of the Design Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.


DTM-16 Session Schedule (Final)


Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Wednesday 9:00 – 10:30
DTM-1 User Needs and Innovation
Chair: Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech

Co-Chair: Lily Shu, University of Toronto.

57227

 Fredrik Andersson 

Requirements as a Means to Drive Innovation - a Reason-based Perspective

57545

 Adriano B. Galvao 

Human-Centered System Architecture: A Framework For Interpreting And Applying User Needs

57250

 Lily Shu 

Natural Language Analysis for Biomimetic Design

57521

 Yan Jin 

Cognitive Modeling of Iteration in Conceptual Design

Wednesday 10:45 – 12:15,
DTM-2 Decision-Based Design

Chair: Michael Scott, University of Illinois at Chicago

Co-Chair: Janet Allen, Georgia Tech

57226

 Bernard Yannou 

A Methodology for Integrating Customers' Assessments During the Conceptual Design

57481

 Bill Wood 

Integrating Computational Synthesis and Decision-Based Conceptual Design

57487

 Wei Chen 

An Integrated Latent Variable Choice Modeling Approach for Supporting Engineering Design Decision-Making

57419

 Michael Scott 

Effective Product Family Design Using Preference Aggregation

57320

 Kemper Lewis 

A Decision Based Product Design Process: Implementation and Education

Wednesday 2:00 – 3:30
DTM-3 Design Behavior Study

Chair: Alice Agogino, University of California at Berkeley

Co-Chair: Yan Jin, University of Southern California

57303

 Lily Shu 

Use of Biological Phenomena in Design by Analogy

57443

 Damien Motte 

A Study of the Mechanical Designer’s Strategies and Tactics During the Later Phases of the Engineering Design Process

57474

 Shuang Song 

Insights on Designers' Sketching Activities in New Product Design Teams

57085

 Timothy Simpson 

Graphical User Interfaces for Engineering Design: Impact of Response Delay and Training on User Performance

Wednesday 3:45 – 5:15
DTM-4: Modularity and Product Platforms

Chair: Ping Ge, Oregon State University

Co-Chair: Dan Braha, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

57256

 Katja Holtta 

A Multi-criteria Framework for Screening Preliminary Product Platform Concepts

57396

 John Gershenson 

A Comparison of Modular Product Design Methods based on Improvement and Iteration

57515

 Bingwen Wang 

Information Measure for Modularity in Engineering Design

57289

 Michael VanWie 

A Customer Needs Motivated Conceptual Design Methodology for Product Portfolios

57469

 Janet K. Allen 

Designing Platforms for Customizable Products in Markets with Non-Uniform Demand

Thursday, September 30, 2004

Thursday 9:00 – 10:30,
DTM-5 Conceptual Design
Chair: Daniel McAdams, The University of Missouri – Rolla

Co-Chair: Clive Dym, Harvey Mudd College

57512

 Shun Takai 

Modifying Pugh's Design Concept Evaluation Methods

57498

 Matthew G. Green 

Product Usage Context: Improving Customer Needs Gathering and Design Target Setting

57130

 Matt Campbell 

A Grammar For Function Structures

57329

 Krister Sutinen 

Computer Support for Requirements Management in an International Product Development Project

Thursday 10:45 – 12:15
DTM-6 Design Decomposition

Chair: John Gershenson, Michigan Technological University

Co-Chair: Matt Campbell, University of Texas

57221

 Dan Jensen 

Prototype Partitioning Based on Requirement Flexibility

57253

 Matt Campbell 

Empirical Study On Product Flexibility

57402

 Tian-Li Yu 

Calculating Efficient Team Size: Balancing Deciding and Doing as an Elementary Optimization Problem

57287

 Steve Barker 

Requirements-driven Design decomposition: A method for exploring Complex System Architecture

57513

 Kazuhiro Aoyama 

Product Behavior and Topological Structure Design System by Step-by-step Decomposition

Thursday 2:00 – 3:30
DTM-7 Panel Discussion: Risk Based Design
Chair: Irem Tumer, NASA Ames Research Center
Co-Chair: Dr. David Ullman, Robust Decisions Inc.

Panelists:
Dr. Chris Paredis, Georgia Tech University
Dr. Wei Chen, Northwestern University
Dr. Leila Meshkat, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dr. Kos Ishii, Stanford University

Thursday 3:45 – 5:15
DTM-8 Design Methods and Processes I

Chair: James Rinderle, University of Massachusetts

Co-Chair: Bill Wood, University of Maryland

57013

 Filippo A. Salustri 

Diagrammatic visualisation of early product development information

57393

 Tetsuo Tomiyama 

A Note on Service Design Methodology

57409

 Coatanéa Eric 

A Life cycle modelling for the conceptual design stage using dimensional analysis

57612

 John Clarkson 

Simulating Design Processes to Assist Design Process Planning

57428

 Samuel Wilkening 

Relating Design Activity to Quality of Outcome: A Regression Analysis of Student Projects

Friday, October 1, 2004

Friday 8:00 – 9:30
DTM-9 Design Methods and Processes II
Chair: Kemper Lewis, SUNY-Buffalo

Co-Chair: Daniel Frey, MIT

57452

 Richard J. Malak, Jr. 

On Characterizing and Assessing the Validity of Behavioral Models and Their Predictions

57496

 Gregory L Bishop 

A Review Of Technology Push Product Development Models And Processes

57552

 Maria Yang 

An Examination of Prototyping, Time, and Design Outcome

57274

 Ramon Costa 

How Process Affects Performance: an Analysis of Student Design Productivity

57518

 Daniel Frey 

Validating Robust Parameter Design Methods

Friday 9:45 – 11:15
DTM-10 Design of Engineering Systems

Chair: Tim Hight, Santa Clara University

Co-Chair: Timothy Simpson, Penn State University

57217

 Jing Zeng 

Design, Analysis and Test for High Speed Railway Passenger Car Bogie With Semi-Active Suspensions

57367

 Yingzi Lin 

A Function-Behavior-State Approach to Designing Human-Machine Interface

57510

 David A. Romero 

Multi-Stage Bayesian Surrogates for the Design of Time-Dependent Systems

57338

 Irem Tumer 

Failure Analysis in Subsystem Design for Space Missions

57122

 Pasu Sirisalee 

Multi-Material Selection: Material Selection For Sandwich Beams

Friday 12:15 – 1:45
DTM-11 Design Modeling

Chair: John Clarkson, University of Cambridge

Co-Chair: Clive Dym, Harvey Mudd College

57514

 Joshua Summers 

Representation in Engineering Design: A Framework for Classification

57101

 Daniel McAdams 

Modeling and Information in the Design Process

57351

 Jian Zhu 

Information Incorporation Policies in Product Development

57390

 Viktor Lévárdy 

Integrated Modelling of Testing and Design Tasks in the Product Development Process


Call for Papers

The Design Theory and Methodology Conference (DTM) promotes research and dissemination of knowledge in such topics as scientific theories of design, foundations for design environments, models of design processes, design education methods, design management, design for quality and other areas extending the understanding of and application of the design process. Scholarly papers in all areas of design theory and methodology are invited.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Paper Submission Instructions:

Important Dates (Extended!):

Web-Based Paper Submission:

Authors should submit a text-only abstract and a full paper (PDF file) to the DETC04 website. When your abstract is submitted successfully, you will receive an on-screen confirmation and assigned paper number. Please include this number on all digital files submitted. Click here and follow the online instructions for your paper submission.

For assistance with submitting your abstract and paper online, please email detc@asme.org.

Conference Organizers

Conference Chair: Prof. Linda Schmidt
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-3035
Tel: (301) 405-0417
Fax: (301) 314-9477
lschmidt@eng.umd.edu

Program Chair: Prof. Yan Jin
Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California
3650 McClintock Avenue, OHE-430
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1453
Tel: (213) 740-9574, Fax: (213) 740-8071
yjin@usc.edu


Last updated on Sept 17th, 2004 by Yan Jin (yjin@usc.edu)