Title: Design Exploration
By Christopher A. Mattson,
PhD, Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, USA
时间：11月2日下午15：30-17：00
地点：机械楼A810
Abstract
Dr. Mattson presents his research on design exploration, which is the divergent/convergent process used to evolve and investigate multidisciplinary design space. He introduces design exploration as a valuable human-driven, often computer-assisted, process that represents an evolutionary step beyond the traditional convergent process of design optimization.
Presented in three parts, he shows that the purpose of design exploration is to facilitate discovery and to inform decision-making throughout the product development process. Part 1 lays a foundation by presenting a general product development theory. Part 2 explores multiobjective design space and discusses its value in the context of product development. Part 3 considers design exploration as it relates to one of Dr. Mattson’s passions: design for the developing world.
Bio
Christopher Mattson is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University. He's a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (PhD 2003), an inventor on multiple patents, and he's authored dozens of journal publications on the topics of design and optimization. He is a National Science Foundation CAREER awardee (2009), and the recipient of the ASME Ben Sparks Medal (2015) for his work in engineering design education. He was honored by the White House in 2011 when he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Engineers and Scientists (PECASE) for his work in Engineering for Global Development.
