October 1, 2015: Invited Speaker Seminar: Design Research at Indian Institute of Science: An Overview

Prof. Amaresh Chakrabarti
 

Thursday, October 1, 2015, 4:00 p.m.
Room EV011.119

Abstract

The talk would provide an overview of research being carried out by the research group of the speaker at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Prof. Chakrabarti will give an overview of research at his Innovation, Design Study and Sustainability Laboratory on Creativity, Sustainability

and Product Informatics,  with a design research methodology as the framework for structuring these pieces of research. Questions asked include: What is design research? What is a design research methodology? What is engineering creativity? How can it be assessed and supported? What is the role of incompleteness of knowledge in assessing environmental impacts of products? How can this be assessed and utilized in decision making? What knowledge is important to capture that is currently not captured in industry? The talk will specifically focus on ”bioinspired design”,  an area in which the group is particularly active.

Biography

Amaresh Chakrabarti is professor and Chairman at the Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He has BE in Mechanical Engg from Univ. of Calcutta (now IIEST Shibpur), India, ME in Mechanical Design from IISc, and PhD in Engg Design from Univ. of Cambridge, UK. After PhD, he led for 10 years the Design Synthesis team at the EPSRC Centre for Excellence Engg Design Centre at Univ. of Cambridge, before joining IISc. His interests are in design synthesis & creativity, eco-design & sustainability, product informatics, research methodology, virtual reality, smart manufacturing and data analytics. He authored/edited 13 books, over 260 peer-reviewed articles, and has 6 patents granted/pending. He co-authored DRM, a methodology used widely as a framework for doing engineering design research. He is an Associate Editor for AI EDAM and Design Science Journal (both Cambridge University Press), Area Editor, Research in Engg Design (Springer), Regional Editor, J for Remanufacturing (Springer), and Advisory Editor for 7 International Journals incl. J of Engg D (Taylor & Francis), Clean Tech & Env. Policy (Springer), and Int J Design Creativity & Innovation (Taylor & Francis). Prof Chakrabarti has been elected twice to the Advisory Board of the Design Society where he is currently serving on its Board of Management, is a member of the CII National Committee on Design in India, and a member of the Jury for the India Design Mark,  the flagship good design mark given by the India Design Council. He founded “IDeASLab”, the first laboratory and design observatory in India for research into design creativity, sustainability and innovation. He is Programme chair for Intl Conf series on Research into Design (ICoRD), 22nd CIRP Design Conf (CIRP Design 2012), 3rd Intl Conf on Design Creativity (3rd ICDC 2015) and vice-Chair for the AI in Design and Design Computing & Cognition Conf series. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Designers UK, the peer society under the UK Royal Charter in engineering design, and received the TUM Ambassador Award from TU Munich Germany. 11 of his papers won top paper awards in international conferences.