Guest Speaker
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SET-BASED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN EXPLORATION |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Carolyn Conner Seepersad |
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Affiliation: |
The University of Texas at Austin |
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When: |
Friday, October 30, 2009 at 1:00:00 PM |
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Where: |
MARC Building, Room 201 |
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Host: |
Chris Paredis | |
Abstract Set-based design involves communicating and reasoning about sets of potential solutions to a design problem, rather than single point solutions. Set-based strategies have been shown to reduce the likelihood of costly iterations without compromising the quality of resulting solutions. The benefits are achieved by delaying commitment to a single solution, thereby preserving design freedom and increasing the diversity of available options in later stages of the development process. In this seminar, a recent industrial case study will be presented to illustrate the benefits of set-based design. Also, the results of discrete event simulations will be presented to quantitatively explore the potential benefits of set-based design in terms of product development time and its variability in a busy design environment. Finally, a set-based approach for collaborative design exploration will be presented in which Bayesian networks are used to represent interesting regions of a design space. Strategies will be discussed for building these networks and sharing them with collaborating designers to identify promising system-wide designs. |
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Biography Carolyn Conner Seepersad is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2004, an MA/BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University in 1998, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University in 1996. She is a former Rhodes Scholar, Hertz Fellow, and NSF Graduate Fellow. Dr. Seepersad’s research involves the development of methods and computational tools for engineering design, with an emphasis on multilevel design for additive manufacturing. Additional research interests include innovation, product flexibility and customization, green design, and simulation-based design of complex systems. In 2009, Dr. Seepersad was the inaugural recipient of the International Outstanding Young Researcher Award in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing from the additive manufacturing community and the recipient of a Best Paper Award for the 2009 ASME Design Theory and Methodology Conference. Dr. Seepersad is the author of more than 60 journal papers and full-length conference publications. She teaches courses on product design, additive manufacturing, and design of complex engineered systems. |
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