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16 – 18 JANUARY 2017 | SINGAPORE

5TH

SUTD-MIT IDC DESIGN SUMMIT

SUTD-MITINTERNATIONALDESIGNCENTRE (IDC)

Innovation Ready Design

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Table of Contents

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Welcome Message

About the 5th SUTD-MIT IDC Design Summit

5th SUTD-MIT IDC Design Summit Committee

About the SUTD-MIT International Design Centre

About the Singapore University of Technology and Design

About the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Venue address, map(s) and transport details

Event/Programme Lineup

Keynote Talks

The Micro Design Innovation (DI) Experience

Workshops

Elevator Pitches

IDC Matrix

Grand Challenges / Research Thrusts

List of Current IDC Projects

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Welcome to the 5th SUTD-MIT IDC Summit!

We are looking forward to three exciting days full of presentations, activities, workshops and ample time to engage in discussions and building relationships.

We are honored to have Professor John Gero, Research Professor in Computer Science and Architecture, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, and Ms Agnes Kwek Executive Director of DesignSingapore Council, as our keynote speakers. We are also honored by the participation of many distinguished leaders from Singapore’s government agencies, from national and international companies, and from SUTD, including Provost Chong Tow Chong, and Associate Provosts Martin Dunn, Lim She Chun, and Pey Kin Leong.

As Abraham Lincoln said:

“The best way to predict the future

is to create it”Both SUTD and MIT put strong emphasis on the power of technology and design in creating a better world, and continue to actively engage in design research, practice and education. The challenges the world is facing are increasingly complex, requiring truly innovative solutions that can only be achieved through new ways of thinking and acting, integrating disciplines,

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merging research and practice, and rethinking education and training. The SUTD-MIT International Design Centre as a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural community, engaged in research and education, and closely collaborating with industry, society and government, can play an increasingly important role in this endeavor. This role we can and should create together.

At this Summit we therefore want to hear your view – as IDC researcher, faculty, supporter, and partner – on the challenges facing mankind, the role design can play in addressing these challenges, and the areas that offer the greatest future potential for the IDC to drive design research, education and practice, to create a better future world.

Sincerely yours,

Professor Lucienne T.M. Blessing Professor Christopher L. MageeIDC Co-Director (SUTD) IDC Co-Director (MIT)

Professor Kristin L. Wood Professor John BrissonIDC Co-Director (SUTD) Director, MIT-SUTD Collaboration Office

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About the 5th SUTD-MIT IDC Design Summit

The IDC Design Summit is held in January each year and brings together SUTD and MIT Principal Investigators (PI), researchers, students and our external partners from industry, government, and government agencies in Singapore for off-site presentations, workshops and sharing sessions.

A main goal of the IDC Design Summit is to exchange our work, ideas, and visions, and create long-lasting relationships across the Centre and with our external partners.

Each year the Summit includes a theme with clear objectives to advance the IDC, and breakout group sessions to discuss for strategic directions for the IDC.

This year’s theme is “Design, Science, and Innovation: Drivers for Well-Being and Wealth Creation”. Through keynotes, a panel discussion and workshops we want to explore the challenges facing society, the future of design, science and innovation and the role of the IDC in driving design research, education and practice to ensure a future that benefits society and the environment. The results of the Summit will form the foundation for the IDC’s strategy beyond 2020.

We will kick off on Day 1 with our renowned Micro-Design Innovation Experience: a fun, cleverly designed hands-on activity, providing a designerly way of thinking, which we hope will enrich the workshops that form the core of the Summit.

A presentation on the current state of the IDC, elevator pitches of our PI’s, researchers and students, and a poster exhibition will highlight the IDC’s many achievements and contributions.

A panel with leaders in academia, industry and government institutions will open the discussions about the challenges facing mankind and the role of design in addressing these.

Our first keynote speaker, Professor John Gero, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and George Mason University, is one of the most well-known design researchers and educators, with a background in architecture, engineering design, and computation. He will share with us his view on the potential roles for design in addressing the challenges facing humankind in the next ten years.

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Workshops are used to engage all participants in the discussion, and share what they consider the most important issues and biggest challenges we face; the role of design and design science in addressing these issues and challenges; the consequences for future design practice, design research and design education; and the unique challenges facing the IDC.

Day 2 starts with a keynote presentation by Ms Agnes Kwek, Executive Director of the DesignSingapore Council. Agnes is an expert in bringing the design world and the public policy and delivery world closer together. She currently leads the implementation of Singapore’s Design 2025 Masterplan and will share her view on the development of design talent needed to create impact, drive change and adapt in our future world.

As an example of collaboration across the Centre and of the link between physical sciences and design, we are proud to show the results of a Design Challenge on which two mixed SUTD-MIT student teams have been working in the days prior to the Summit.

The discussions of Day 1 on challenges and issues are followed on Day 2 by discussions about solutions and future directions, about where we, as IDC, want to be. What are the research areas of greatest potential for the IDC? How can the IDC shape design awareness, education and professional development to ensure future-ready students, professionals and society? How can the IDC provide continued added value for its people and environments? After presentations of the workshop results, the day will be closed by a summary and synthesize of the results.

Day 3 is dedicated to workshops on challenges and possible future directions in specific areas, proposed and co-led by researchers and faculty from SUTD and MIT. The workshops are open to all participants and address: Engineering systems design and education; Design with the developing world; and Design and design science in the physical sciences.

We hope that the Summit will be interesting, engaging, exciting, fun, stimulating, provocative, surprising, bonding, memorable, and provide promising directions for the IDC of the future.

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5th SUTD-MIT IDC Design Summit Committee

IDC Co-Directors

Members

Professor Luciënne T. M. Blessing (SUTD)Professor Kristin L. Wood (SUTD)Professor Christopher L. Magee (MIT)Professor John Brisson (MIT-SUTD)

Ifraim Sofian FaylasufRosnizawatiTan Szu MinRanjit Anthony TomyChiew Seng GuanSally YonErich Christian ElkinsAngela HoDawn Chia

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The SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC) is a world premier scholarly hub for technologically-intensive design science, research and practice. It is a multi-million dollar Centre based both in Singapore at SUTD, and in Cambridge, MA, USA at MIT, with academic and industrial partners from around the world. IDC faculty, researchers and students work together to design devices, products, systems, services and the built environment that address strategic needs of Singapore, the greater Asian region, the US, and the global community. At the same time, the IDC studies and advances the design process and design science, seeking to develop new tools and methods for design practice and education. The IDC is organised and concentrates its efforts on three Grand Challenges: Sustainable Built Environment, Design with the Developing World, and ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living, in conjunction with six Design Research Thrusts: Experimental Design, Fostering Creativity, Visualisation and Prototyping, Design Computation, Decision Making, and Global Collaboration. Through this concentration, the IDC creates quality research, talent, curricula, and value for the innovation ecosystem.

SUTD-MITINTERNATIONALDESIGNCENTRE (IDC)

Innovation Ready Design

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The Singapore University of Technology and Design is established in collaboration with MIT to advance knowledge and nurture technically grounded leaders and innovators to serve societal needs. This will be accomplished, with a focus on Design, through an integrated multi-disciplinary curriculum and multi-disciplinary research.Technology and design are essential to the world’s well-being and progress. Ever since the invention of the world’s first light bulb, design in technology has been the forerunner of countless new discoveries. With machinery that is unsurpassed in speed and efficiency, new inventions have sprouted all over the globe. Indeed, possibilities are endless in a day and age where information is rampant and new designs and discoveries are shared the moment they emerge.

The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) aims to become the centre and stronghold of global research and breakthroughs through creative technical research and education anchored in design within a multi-disciplinary approach. We call this focus on design the Big ‘D’, where we do not just produce graduates well-versed in technical functionality, but a new breed of the brightest technical minds that understands form to design the new innovations of tomorrow. We will inspire all that goes through our doors in the art and science of design to ensure that architectural, systems and engineering inventions of tomorrow are both a technical breakthrough and a resonating lifestyle appeal.

By developing pioneering curriculum and research, this Big-D movement will further push the envelope, inspire young minds and motivate impactful achievements in innovation, society and the economy.

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The mission of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. We are also driven to bring knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges.

The Institute is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university, organized into five Schools (architecture and planning; engineering; humanities, arts, and social sciences; management; and science). It has some 1,000 faculty members, more than 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and more than 130,000 living alumni.

At its founding in 1861, MIT was an educational innovation, a community of hands-on problem solvers in love with fundamental science and eager to make the world a better place. Today, that spirit still guides how we educate students on campus and how we shape new digital learning technologies to make MIT teaching accessible to millions of learners around the world.

MIT’s spirit of interdisciplinary exploration has fueled many scientific breakthroughs and technological advances. A few examples: the first chemical synthesis of penicillin and vitamin A.

The development of radar and creation of inertial guidance systems. The invention of magnetic core memory, which enabled the development of digital computers. Major contributions to the Human Genome Project. The discovery of quarks. The invention of the electronic spreadsheet and of encryption systems that enable e-commerce. The creation of GPS. Pioneering 3D printing. The concept of the expanding universe.Current research and education areas include digital learning; nanotechnology; sustainable energy, the environment, climate adaptation, and global water and food security; Big Data, cybersecurity, robotics, and artificial intelligence; human health, including cancer, HIV, autism, Alzheimer’s, and dyslexia; biological engineering and CRISPR technology; poverty alleviation; advanced manufacturing; and innovation and entrepreneurship.

MIT’s impact also includes the work of our alumni. One way MIT graduates drive progress is by starting companies that deliver new ideas to the world. A recent study estimates that as of 2014, living MIT alumni have launched more than 30,000 active companies, creating 4.6 million jobs and generating roughly $1.9 trillion in annual revenue. Taken together, this “MIT Nation” is equivalent to the 10th-largest economy in the world!

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Venue

MAX Atria is located in the eastern part of Singapore, and only one Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) stop or a 5-minute drive from the Changi International Airport, and a 15-minute drive from the Central Business District (CBD). Right next to it is the Changi Business Park, a business hub that houses high technology firms, knowledge-intensive facilities, and multi-national companies. In addition, hotels and a wide selection of food and beverages and retail outlets are also within easy reach.

MAX Atria has a dedicated MRT station next to Hall 6. Trains arrive every 5 minutes from Changi International Airport and Tanah Merah MRT stations, while it takes about 25 minutes from the city.

There are numerous taxis available in Singapore that offer reliable service. The taxi fare from the airport to MAX Atria is about S$15 and to the city about S$20, subject to surcharges.

Situated at the crossroads of 3 main expressways – East Coast Parkway, Pan Island Expressway and Tampines Expressway, MAX Atria is a mere 15-minute drive from the CBD and a 5-minute ride to Changi International Airport.

The following rates apply every day, inclusive of public holidays.

Cars and Light Good VehiclesFirst Two Hours $3.20 Subsequent 30 minutes $1.50 The Maximum Daily Charge $20.00

Heavy Vehicles and BusesFirst Hour $3.20 Subsequent 30 minutes $1.90 The Maximum Daily Charge $35.00

1 Expo Drive, Singapore Expo, Singapore 486150

16 & 17 January 2017

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Maps

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Venue

Alight at Expo MRT station and walk to our campus - along Changi South Avenue 1 in the direction of Max Pavilion/Somapah Road

From ECP• Take Exit 2B on ECP

(Xilin Ave towards Tampines)• Turn right to Changi South Ave 3• Turn left to Changi Business Park Vista• Turn right to Changi South Ave 1• Turn left into the Campus carpark

(before the sports complex)

From PIE• Take Exit 4A on PIE (Simei Ave)• Turn left to Upper Changi Road East• Turn right to Somapah Road• Turn left to Changi South Ave 1• Turn left into the Campus carpark

(before the sports complex)

NoteThere is a 10 minute grace period for all vehicles.

Free 1-hour parking for motor vehicles only, during lunchtime, from 12pm to 2pm (Monday to Friday only, excluding Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays).

Car park lots marked in RED are designated for staff members only, while lots marked in WHITE are for all motorists including staff, students, visitors and members of the public, etc. Action, including wheel clamping, will be taken against errant motorists who illegally park in red lots.

Alight at one of the bus stops along Upper Changi Road East and walk to our Campus:

B96041: Upper Changi Road East, Before Tropicana Condo.

B96049: Upper Changi Road East, Opposite Tropicana Condo.

Motor Vehicles $0.02/minute Motorcycles $1/entry

*Prices excluding GST

8 Somapah Road, Singapore 487372

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Map

Capstone 5 & 6 Building 1, Level 6

Main Entrance / Taxi drop-off

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5th SUTD-MIT IDC Design SummitDESIGN, SCIENCE, AND INNOVATION:

DRIVERS FOR WELL-BEING AND WEALTH CREATION16-18 January 2017

Day 1: 16 January 2017MAX Atria - 1 Expo Drive, #02-01, Singapore 486150

8:00 Arrival and Registration (breakfast will be provided)

9:00 Welcome and Introductory Remarks

9:30 Micro Design Innovation Experience – a hands-on and fun activity to achieve a deeper understanding of the Design Innovation Process

10:45 Status report “IDC … where we are”

11:30 IDC Research - Elevator Pitches

12:00 Lunch (provided) – poster visits

1:00 Keynote #1: Professor John S. GeroDESIGNERS, PRODUCTS AND CONSUMERS: THE COGNITIVE DIMENSIONUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte and George Mason University (See page 18)

2:00 Panel discussion: What are the issues and challenges facing mankind, and what role could/should design (research, education, practice, innovation) play in addressing these?

3:15 Break

3:30 Introduction to the workshops

3:45 Workshop “IDC … where we want to be”Part 1: Identifying Issues and Needs Group 1: Research - What are the most important issues and biggest challenges facing design practice and design research in the next 10 years? Group 2: Education - What are the most important issues and biggest challenges facing the design profession and design education in the next 10 years? Group 3: IDC - What are the unique characteristics and competitive advantages of the IDC, its faculty, researchers, staff and students, and its environments (MIT, SUTD, SG)? What are the Challenges facing the IDC in providing continued value added for its people and environments in the next 10 years?

5:15 IDC Closing Remarks

5:30 Close of Day 1

6:00 Dinner (RSVP)

VENUE DAY 1 & 2: MAX ATRIA, 1 Expo Drive, Singapore Expo, Singapore 486150VENUE DAY 3: SUTD Capstone 5 & 6 (1.606 & 1.607) Building 1, Level 6

8 Somapah Road, Singapore 487372

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Day 2: 17 January 2017MAX Atria - 1 Expo Drive, #02-01, Singapore 486150

9:00 Breakfast (provided)

9:30 Keynote #2: Ms Agnes KwekA VIEW ON DESIGN TALENTExecutive Director DesignSingapore Council (See page 22)

10:30 Workshop “IDC … where we want to be”Part 2: Proposing SolutionsGroup 1: Research - Which Grand Challenges and Design Research Thrusts offer the greatest potential for the IDC in its quest to be the premier scholarly hub driving design research, design practice and innovation in the next 10 years?Group 2: Education - Where lies the potential of the IDC in shaping design awareness, education and professional development to ensure future-ready students, professionals and society in the next 10 years?Group 3: IDC - How can the IDC continue to provide added value to its faculty, researchers and students and to its environments (SUTD, MIT and SG)?(refreshments provided)

12:00 SUTD-MIT Student Design Challenge presentation of results

12:30 Lunch (provided)

1:30 Workshop results - “IDC … where we want to be”

2:30 IDC research - Elevator Pitches (See page 34)

3:00 Break (poster visit)

3:30 Summary and synthesis of workshop results

4:00 Closing remarks

4:15 Close of Day 2

Day 3: 18 January 2017SUTD Capstone 5 & 6 (1.606 & 1.607) Building 1, Level 68 Somapah Road, Singapore 487372

9:00 Breakfast (provided)

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS (See page 27)

9:30 Engineering Systems Design and EducationPeter Jackson (SUTD) Richard de Neufville (MIT)

Co-Designing with the Developing WorldDevarajan Ramanujan (MIT)Subburaj Karupppasamy (SUTD)

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Design and Design Science in the Physical Sciences Dario Poletti (SUTD) | Michael Short (MIT)

4:30 Close of Day 3

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Keynote TalkDESIGNERS, PRODUCTS AND CONSUMERS: THE COGNITIVE DIMENSIONMonday, 16 January 2017, 1PM

AbstractDesigners are change agents. One primary goal of designing is to change the values of clients, consumers and society. However, research in design over the last 50 years has largely focused on the designers: how to make the designer more efficient through the development of tools. This has resulted in significant and effective advances in aiding designers in the development of ideas, in modeling products, in methods for analyzing them and in managing design. This focus has meant that less attention has been paid to the understanding of designers and to the consumers of their designs in the pursuit of designing as a means of change.

This talk presents an introduction to situated cognition as an approach to aid in the modeling of the cognitive behavior of designers and consumers and their interactions with products. It goes on to present computational implementations of models of affordances, interpretation and how designers and consumers interact through designed products. It describes recent advances in the cognition of thinking, in particular System 1 and System 2 thinking.

The talk will conclude with a summary of the issues facing humankind over the next decade and potential roles for design in addressing them. It will look at social, governmental, environmental, technical and domains of practice issues.

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John S. GeroResearch ProfessorComputer Science and ArchitectureUniversity of North Carolina at CharlotteKrasnow Institute for Advanced StudyGeorge Mason University

John Gero is a Research Professor in Computer Science and Architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and a Research Professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and at the Department of Computational Social Science, George Mason University.

Formerly, he was Professor of Design Science and Co-Director of the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, at the University of Sydney. He is the author or editor of 50 books and over 650 papers and book chapters in the fields of design science, design computing, artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, design cognition and cognitive science.

He has been a Visiting Professor of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Design and Computation or Mechanical Engineering at MIT, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia and CMU in the USA, at Strathclyde and Loughborough in the UK, at INSA-Lyon and Provence in France and at EPFL-Lausanne in Switzerland.

Current and recent research funding has been from the NSF (CMMI, CNS, EEC, IIS and SBE Programs), DARPA and NASA.

He has been the recipient of many excellence awards including the Harkness Fellowship, two Fulbright Fellowships, two SRC Fellowships and various named chairs. He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals related to design science, computer-aided design, artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering and is the chair of the international conference series Artificial Intelligence in Design, the conference series Design Computing and Cognition and the international conference series Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design.

Professor Gero is also an international consultant in the fields of design research, design cognition, computer-aided design, artificial intelligence in design and technology policy.

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Keynote TalkA VIEW ON DESIGN TALENTTuesday, 17 January 2017, 9.30AM

AbstractLiving in a world increasingly characterised by rapid evolution of technology, shorter business cycles, increased globalisation and rising social challenges, tomorrow’s business models and industry structures will be vastly different from today’s. The human resource required to face this future has to increasingly be multidisciplinary, and able to navigate multiple roles in their career lifetime. It is timely to reconsider the people and talent required to support, facilitate, redesign and lead an organisation, economy and nation to create impact, drive change and adapt in our future world.

Agnes KwekExecutive DirectorDesignSingapore Council

Ms Agnes Kwek joined the DesignSingapore Council on 1 November 2016. As its Executive Director, Ms Kwek leads the Council by charting national policies on design. She spearheads the implementation of the recommendations under Design 2025 Masterplan to realise the vision of making Singapore an innovation-driven economy and a loveable city by design.

Prior to her appointment in the DesignSingapore Council, Ms Kwek helmed the transformation effort of the Land Transport Authority of Singapore to become a user-centred designer and provider of Singapore’s land transport experience. She joined LTA in 2014 to bring the design-thinking approach and mind-set to the organisation, and develop the organisational eco-system to deliver a great transport experience to citizens and users.

Ms Kwek wants to bring the intersection of the design world and public policy and delivery world closer together. She started her career as a civil servant and has 15 years of public service under her belt, in portfolios spanning defence diplomacy (Ministry of Defence), economic manpower policy (Ministry of Manpower), community organisation and social welfare (Community Development Council), and public service transformation (PS21 Office, Public Service Division).

In 2013, she spent a year in a work attachment to global design consultancy, IDEO in San Francisco. As a design consultant, she worked on projects including catalysing the educational technology start-up community for a non-profit foundation and organisational redesign of a large Asian consumer electronics company. Her key work was a six-month project embedded in a Silicon Valley technology giant to teach a team on design innovation skills.

Ms Kwek graduated with a First Class B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford, Lincoln College in 2000. She went on to do a M.A. in International Relations in the University of Chicago in 2001. In her free time, she cooks and reads novels.

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The Micro DI Experience

Discover

Opportunity space SolutionOpportunity Statement

DeliverDefine DevelopIdentity & understand opportunities & needs collaboratively through co-creation with stakeholders

Iteratively prototype & test concepts & models with stakeholders

Interpret & re-frame needs & map them into activities, functions & representations

Ideate & model concepts based on identified opportunities

Have you ever wondered how Da Vinci got inspiration for his designs? It’s no mystery. Innovation and design are a process. The Micro Design Innovation (DI) Experience provides a headfirst dive into experiencing the full design innovation process, but in a short, exciting timeframe.

The one-hour exercise traverses the process of design through Discover, Define, Develop, and Deliver phases. The content is delivered through hands on learning. The activities demonstrate a core approach to engaging user empathy, reframing, ideation, prototyping, and iterative design refinement. The overall takeaway is a snapshot of the design process and a first step into the world of systematic design innovation.

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ENGINEERING SYSTEMS DESIGN AND EDUCATION

CO-DESIGNING WITH THE DEVELOPING WORLD

DESIGN AND DESIGN SCIENCE IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES

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AimThe challenge is that definitions of Engineering Systems overlap with Operations Research and with Industrial Engineering. What is truly distinctive about Engineering Systems and Engineering Systems Design? How shall we characterize an Innovative Engineer in the field of Engineering Systems? What courses and skill sets should form the core of the Engineering Systems discipline?

FormatThe workshop will start with a brief presentation of the challenges and the proposed curriculum. Discussion groups will be formed, who will report. The duration will be 3 hours with a break.

Expected Outcome An assessment of the proposed curriculum relative to the challenges articulated.

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Peter was on the faculty of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University for 36 years, where, as Director of Systems Engineering, he oversaw the launch of Cornell’s respected distance learning Masters of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering. He is the author of an introductory textbook in systems engineering, Getting Design Right: A Systems Approach. He has developed numerous decision support and gaming tools for use in industry and education and is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching. His research is in optimization-based approaches to solving problems in multi-item, multi-stage production and inventory forecasting, planning and control.

As the Founding Chairman of the MIT Technology and Policy Program, Richard has been promoting the theory and practice of Engineering Systems for over 40 years. He sees it as integrating strong domain knowledge with understanding of its social, economic, and political context. His specialty is “Airport Systems Planning, Design, and Management.”

Peter JacksonProfessor and Head of PillarEngineering Systems and DesignSingapore University of Technology and Design

Richard de NeufvilleProfessor of Engineering SystemsMIT Institute for Data, Systems, and SocietyMassachusetts Institute of Technology

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AimThe aim of this workshop is to identify future grand challenges in development projects within the Asian context. This workshop aims to roadmap methods to co-design with stakeholders in the developing world and identify the future role of designers, IDC, and research institutions in such settings.

FormatIntroduction to the challenge, followed by group discussions and road mapping future opportunities. Three hours with breaks.

Expected Outcome Establish the role of IDC in future ‘design with developing world’ projects. Develop a list of potential col-laborations and funding opportunities that can result in joint R&D proposals.

Short Description Radical innovations in agriculture, healthcare, public infrastructure, energy generation, information & communication technologies, and business models are required to sustainably uplift the remaining 10.7 percent of the world living in extreme poverty (<2$/day). Designers can play a leading role in address-ing this challenge by creating a wide variety of technological solutions for the developing world. Factors including cultural norms, community structures, and business practices, often significantly influence the deployment and success of such technologies. This is because the design requirements heavily depend on the specific social context. Involving end-users directly in the design process can help designers better understand these inter-related factors. For example, co-design approaches can facilitate end-users and designers to collaboratively design, prototype, and evaluate concepts. Such approaches can help designers better understand ‘what is to be designed’. It can also give end-users a stronger sense of design ownership and empower them to create solutions for future problems. While there is a general consensus that co-designing with the developing world can be beneficial, the question of how to effectively do so remains an open problem. In this this workshop, we will discuss the need for co-designing sustainable global development with the developing world and brainstorm ideas for including developing world users in the ‘front end’ of the design process. The IDC, as an interdisciplinary research group, can play a leading role in fostering global R&D projects across a wide variety of application contexts that matter in the developing world. In this session, our aim is to establish a roadmap for engaging researchers at IDC in developing world projects. As a follow-up to this workshop, we will develop a list of potential collaborations between researchers, IDC, and NGOs and funding opportunities that can result in joint grant proposals for extramural funding.

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Subburaj received his postdoctoral training in the department of radiology and biomedical imaging at University of California San Francisco (UCSF), before joining SUTD in 2014. He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). His research group at SUTD focuses on developing medical devices, medical imaging and image analysis techniques, and computational tools for diagnosing, treating, and potentially preventing musculoskeletal disorders and disabilities.

Dev Ramanujan is a postdoctoral research associate in the Global Engineering and Research Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in December 2015. His research focuses on creating methods and computer-support tools that allow consideration of environmental and social sustainability in the product design process. Currently, he is working on quantifying the environmental and social impacts of groundwater desalination technologies for potable water production in India and the Middle East.

Subburaj KarupppasamyAssistant ProfessorEngineering Product DevelopmentSingapore University of Technology and Design

Devarajan RamanujanPostdoctoral AssociateMassachusetts Institute of Technology

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AimDesign is pervasive in many disciplines including, indeed, the Physical Sciences. At the same time the physical rules of the universe dictate the objects and theories we can design, placing unusual constraints in the design of experiments, theories, simulations, studies, even physical units of measure. In this session we will discuss the interconnections between the physical sciences, design, and design science. While the physical sciences are often seen from the outside simply as the study of “what is,” making any measurable progress requires considerable amounts of creativity and design. The creation of new theories requires by definition a deviation from the known even in an abstract sense. Confirming these theories is rarely easy, as many recent experiments have shown us this year. For example, the LIGO observatory finally proved Einstein’s theories of gravity waves 100 years later. Designing such experiments is a worthy topic of study in itself, as much innovation, creativity, and hacking/making have been and continue to be behind most of the impactful research in physical science.

FormatWe will begin our discussion with a few minutes of what we hope to learn from this workshop, inspired by an example of the confirmation of a radical theory for its time. Proposed by James Chadwick in 1932, it was hypothesized and proven that there exist “neutrons” of high mass and no charge, a completely new concept at the time. We will discuss the design of the experiments that led to confirmation of this theory. Next we will fast forward to our times and discuss the design process of cutting edge experiments in the field of quantum mechanics (design of a device for quantum experiments in space, and of quantum, high precision, gravitometers).

We will then hear and discuss a presentation by MIT students on the interplay between science & design in their invention of RadLock, a smart, user-friendly radiation source lockbox, followed by a presentation on how to choose the right technologies to design a product. We will conclude with an open discussion on how science assists or could better help design science and vice versa. Examples and overarching themes will specifically be sought by members of the workshop, to help map more abstract concepts to specific instances in each person’s research.

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Dario Poletti joined the Singapore University of Technology and Design in 2012 where he leads a group researching on the dynamics of manybody quantum systems. He obtained a joint PhD in Physics from the National University of Singapore and the Australian National University. He then joined the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore as a research fellow, followed by postdoctoral research periods at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and Universite’ de Geneve. Two main research focuses of his group are energy transport and energy conversion in regimes in which quantum effects and strong interactions are particularly dominant.

Michael Short (MIT) studies new methods and materials to make energy systems, especially nuclear power, safer and more efficient. His group currently focuses on (1) the characterization and elimination of fouling deposits in energy systems, and (2) ways of quantitatively measuring damage to structural materials, particularly by ionizing radiation. Prof. Short’s group, the MIT Mesoscale Nuclear Materials group (MIT-MNM), also specializes in the design and construction of entirely new experimental facilities to study these phenomena in-situ, at high temperatures, high pressures, an under high radiation fluxes. His most recent IDC-funded project centers around the stored energy fingerprints of radiation damage, and uses a combination of time-accelerated atomistic simulations and nanoscale thermal measurements to measure the tiny energetic changes in materials when they are irradiated. Potential applications of this technology range from verifying the safe operability of old reactors, to rapidly designing materials for advanced reactors, to verifying the historical enrichment of uranium for weapons production as a way of verifying recent nuclear non-proliferation treaties.

Dario PolettiAssistant ProfessorEngineering Product DevelopmentSingapore University of Technology and Design

Michael ShortAssistant ProfessorMassachusetts Institute of Technology

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Elevator PitchesCheck out these short pitches of great projects and works from our faculty and researchers.Presenter Affiliation Project

Arlindo SILVA ProfessorSUTD, EPD

Predicting Mechanical Behaviour of Composites with Long Natural Fibers

Avinash BAJI Assistant ProfessorSUTD, EPD

Design of Biomimetic Dry-Adhesive Analogues Based on Electrospun Fibers

Bige TUNÇER Associate ProfessorSUTD, ASD

Gesture and Speech-based CAD Modeling for Conceptual Architectural Design

Chathura WITHANAGE Postdoctoral Research FellowSUTD, IDC

Humanizing the Smart Grid: Smart Products and Services Towards a Sustainable Society

CHEN Jia Jia Senior LecturerSUTD, EPD

New Spatial Audio Processing Algorithm for Audio Sources Isolation and Localization

CHEN Lujie Assistant ProfessorSUTD, EPD

Infrared Three-Dimensional Imaging for Cardiac Procedures

CHOO Pui Kun Design EngineerSUTD, IDC

FDM Wax Rocket Fuel 3D PrinterVTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

David ANDERSON PhD CandidateSUTD, EPD

Cross-Discipline Cognitive Strategies for Design Automation

Karen SNG, Sujithra RAVISELVAM

Design EngineerSUTD, IDC

Design Knowledge and Impact onSimulation Induced Creativity and Empathy

Karthik NATARAJAN Associate ProfessorSUTD, ESD

Optimization for Complex Discrete Choice

K Blake PEREZ PhD CandidateSUTD, EPD

Directed Inspiration During Ideation and its Effects

Martin DUNN Professor and Associate Provost (Research)Centre DirectorSUTD, DManD

Research Equipment and Instrumentation for Digital Design and Manufacturing Initiative

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Presenter Affiliation Project

Michael FISCHER ProfessorMIT

What do Science and Technology Studies (SST) and Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) have to do with Design?

Srinivasan VENKATARAMAN

Postdoctoral Research FellowSUTD, IDC

Studying Effects of Using Stimuli on Performance of Ideation

Stefano GALELLI Assistant ProfessorSUTD, ESD

Climate-Resilient Design: Using Global Teleconnection Patterns to Improve the Design of Water Resources Systems

Subarna BASNET Research ScientistSUTD, IDC

Modeling Technological Performance Dynamics

Suranga NANAYAKKARA Assistant ProfessorSUTD, EPD

FingerReader

TAN U-Xuan,

Dexter CHEW

Assistant ProfessorSUTD, EPD

Masters StudentSUTD, EPD

Design of a Passive Gravity Compensation Device for Variable Loads

YE Ai Assistant ProfessorSUTD, EPD

On-chip Flow Cytometer for Field-Deployable Clinical Diagnosis in the Developing World

YUEN Chau Assistant ProfessorSUTD, EPD

On the Design of Universal IOT Gateway

Zack HUANG ResearcherSUTD, IDC

SUTD Hologram

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Grand ChallengesGrand Challenges represent critical societal needs where there exist larger-than-life barriers (and opportunities) without foreseeable solutions in the near future. It is important to undertake grand challenges as part of a forward-looking and innovative Centre in technologically-intensive design. By defining Grand Challenges, the work of the Centre is placed at the forefront of technology, engaged in problems and projects that are important to society, to Singapore, and to Centre personnel, and developing results that have the potential for radical innovation and meaning to individuals, markets and society.

Within the scope of the IDC, three Grand Challenges are currently being pursued: Sustainable Built Environment, Design with the Developing World, and ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living. These Grand Challenges are defined and continually evolved through the GC co-Leads at SUTD and MIT and the community of IDC researchers through regular meetings and the annual Design Summit.

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Design with the Developing WorldGreat challenges and opportunities face the designers of products, processes, buildings and environments in the developing world. The IDC’s fundamental approach to research in this arena is captured in the title: “Design with the Developing World.” Listening to the customer has always been important to design, but success in the developing world is most easily achieved when the customer is not just a recipient of the design but an active co-creator in the design. This is driven by economic necessity. Design for the developing world has been described as “design for extreme affordability.” In order to make designs affordable, low cost local production or involvement is required. Success of the design is often dependent on local job creation and local micro-financing. Systematic design research in the developing world context requires tackling the complex social, economic and political challenges faced by our developing world today. The design process is itself a mechanism of social change.

With IDC support SUTD faculty and research staff are able to engage undergraduate and graduate students, as well as post-doctoral associates in interdisciplinary research, which addresses both the human and technical challenges encountered in the developing world. The experience of working with local designers and partners in developing country setting is often a positive, life changing experience for the student. This is one of the desired outcomes for engagement with this grand challenge.

The design of low cost, scalable, and sustainable solutions is a high priority for many large international corporations, but many are lacking in developing world design experience. IDC research collaborations with industry will help corporations to understand participatory design, as well as the critically important social factors of success. Corporate partners can help bring solutions to scale by bringing corporate knowhow to supply chains and production. Corporations can also provide the necessary capital.

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Sustainable Built EnvironmentMore than one half of the world´s population now lives in cities. More than two thirds of economic activity and resulting anthropogenic carbon emissions are a result of urban socioeconomic activities. The global environmental impacts of cities will likely worsen as rural to urban population migration continues. The United Nations projects that cities will account for over 90% of global population growth in the next four decades. By 2050, Asian cities alone will account for 3.3 billion residents and 60% of the global urban population. A significant fraction of those city inhabitants will be living in conditions of poverty. Given the current state of these and other trends, identifying viable pathways toward urban sustainability is clearly one of the great challenges for 21st century society.

The Sustainable Built Environment Grand Challenge (SBE) has been organized to address specific elements of the challenge of a sustainable urban future. The approach that has been adopted thus far is multi-scale and multi-disciplinary, incorporating elements of computer science, materials science and engineering, system dynamics, resource flow accounting and various aspects of the technology of design and construction. To date, the main activities of the researchers in the SBE include team building and development, both in Singapore and at MIT, methodological formulation and assembly of appropriate analytical and physical tools, cross-cutting research planning with various design thrusts and the Design with the Developing World grand challenge.

ICT-enabled Devices for Better LivingThis Grand Challenge is based on the most rapidly developing field of technological knowledge in the current era. ICT (Information and Communication Technology) consists of all technical means used to handle information and aid communication, including computer and network hardware, communication middleware as well as necessary software and is the source of much invention, innovation and company-formation processes currently. Thus, the IDC efforts in the ICT-enabled devices grand challenge are broad covering major cyber physical infrastructures, optimization, education, innovation and technological progress, robotic systems, wireless communication, and medical devices.

Design Research Thrusts

Design Research Thrusts define the areas of design research where that are critically important to advance design science and ultimately affect design practice. The full value chain of design, from identification of an opportunity through implementation and sustainable operation, define innumerable possibilities and thrusts that could be pursued. In order to scope the primary efforts of the IDC within our resources and skillsets, we are currently pursing six Design Research Thrusts: Experimental Design, Design Computation, Visualisation and Prototyping, Fostering Creativity, Decision Making, and Global Collaboration. These Design Research Thrusts are defined and continually evolved through the DRT co-Leads at SUTD and MIT and the community of IDC researchers through regular meetings and the annual Design Summit.

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Current Design Research Thrusts Descriptions

Experimental DesignExperimentation is an essential design activity providing information needed to define requirements, evaluate alternatives, refine the look and feel, establish detailed parameters, tune the operation, and validate the design. Experimental design is a discipline that supports good design by offering efficient plans, computerized tools for tailoring plans, and strategies for analyzing data emerging from the experiments. More recently, several areas have offered theory and techniques for extending effective experimentation beyond the traditional approach of pre-defined orthogonal vector spaces of inputs for study.Recent advances include managing experimentation within adaptive schema – continuously using data from experiments to update plans as evidence is accumulated. There have also been advances in cognitive experimentation along several diverse directions, whether for system designs that require human decision making, particularly in complex and stressful environments; to experimentation methods that are evolving in attaining meaningful design information on emotional affective responses using Kansei attributes. There are also advances in concept exploration experimentation, to form experimental sequence strategies of building prototypes, whether developing several concepts in parallel, scaled builds, or focusing only on a subset of requirements.

Recognizing these emerging frontiers of design experimentation, this Design Research Thrust seeks to refine the science of experimentation. We will combine statistics with other disciplines, including psychology, sociology, optimization and controls, to improve experimentation in the context of engineering design. We also recognize exciting potential for more participative modes of design that are enabled by wider availability of information technology and increased capability analyze large data sets. This will be a practical foundation enabling engineers to decide which approaches are preferred at each phase of the design process.

Specific Research Goals include:• Investigate automated methods of natural experimentation and large data gathering from sources such

as online sites, social networks, open source communities, massively deployed sensor networks, built infrastructure, and other ICT systems;

• Investigate improved system characterization and verification though hybrid methods of designed experiments with search based optimization techniques;

• Investigate designed experimentation with complex spaces beyond orthogonal experimental domains including networks, hierarchies and dynamically evolving spaces;

• Investigate hybrid investigations of computer data and model based experimentation with laboratory testing and large user base field testing;

• Investigate the evolution of the experimental test sensors, equipment and instrumentation with the evolution of the experimental plans, for long-term design characterization studies in rapidly evolving ICT infrastructure;

• Investigate experimental prototyping strategies and planning methods for systems with human interactions and decisions;

• Investigate early, non-parametric experimental design strategies amongst use of serial and parallel experimental plans of different design concepts, scaled hardware, and other prototyping methods on which to conduct experimentation or designed experiments; and

• Demonstrate examples of experimental design across a range of fields.

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Design ComputationComputation supports all aspects of the design process, permitting designers to explore multiple alternative conceptual designs, to evaluate and refine detailed design choices, to validate design performance against requirements, and to extend decision-making through system operation. This Design Research Thrust seeks to develop new computational methods and tools that enable fundamental and broadly applicable advances in the field of design computation, as well as those that will specifically advance the design of devices, systems, and services for the IDC Grand Challenges.

Particular research challenges tackled within the Design Computation Research Thrust include the following:• Computational methods and tools that encompass multiple disparate disciplines, including those for

which design metrics may be subjective or qualitative. This is an important but the challenging aspect of designing for the Sustainable Built Environment and for Design with the Developing World, where, for example, aesthetic and cultural design considerations may play a key role.

• Computational methods and tools for designing across scales. This includes computational methods that can handle many scales and levels of analysis: from design to operation, over time-scales from now into the future, and over spatial scales from large to small. This is a fundamental issue that challenges state-of-the-art in computational methods and impacts all IDC Grand Challenges.

• Computational methods and tools for design under uncertainty. A key challenge in developing next-generation computational tools is scalable methods to analyze the effects of uncertainty and to support decision-making under uncertainty. Again, this is a fundamental issue that challenges state-of-the-art in computational methods and impacts all IDC Grand Challenges.

• Computational methods and tools to support design for a data-rich future. Within both the ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living and the Sustainable Built Environment Grand Challenges, we are striving to design systems that will be endowed with tremendous sensing capabilities. New and different ways of thinking about how to design such systems are needed, as well as the new methods and tools that will support integrated decision-making over the full system lifecycle.

Visualisation and PrototypingVisualisation and prototyping systems allow engineers, scientists and architects to see and touch their ideas by modeling, imaging and manufacturing directly from CAD and other computational data. Research within the IDC in this area is focused on application and development of these systems as tools for design review across the columns and rows found in our research map. Imagery and physical models must be effective expressions of data for designers, engineers and scientists alike. Established programs within this thrust explore ways to increase the quality of x-ray visioning systems, prototype large objects and document established prototyping principles. New research projects will focus on filling research gaps such as discovery of ways to visualise social activities that occur during design processing. As we advance this thrust, we plan to explore questions related to human factors in processing physical models and enhance ways designers can learn from prototyping. Ultimately, we xplore a broad set of ideas leading to new knowledge in support of design prototyping to rapid product manufacturing for both expert and novice designers.

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Examples of near-term specific goals of this Design Research Thrust are:• Discovery of large-scale physical prototyping systems;• Visualisation tools to explore urban infrastructure;• Develop tools that allow groups to visualisation and prototype as shared social experiences;• Design methodologies for efficient programmable digital FIR filters;• Characterize design limitations based on embodied cognition; and• Prototyping of new joinery systems

Fostering CreativityCreativity is at the heart of innovation, and the creative process plays a crucial role throughout the design process, from understanding design problems to the development of appropriate solutions to the execution of those solutions in the real world of engineering and design, architecture, business and entrepreneurship. Many of the world’s most pressing problems all rely on creativity to drive the formulations of novel solutions. A critical component of the future of design is the ability for companies to be innovative, consistently and efficiently, in their approach to product, system and service development and to be able to benefit from a steady stream of new scientific discoveries. The goal of the IDC is to play a key role in the support of this approach. The interface between cognitive psychology, social psychology, engineering architecture, and science provides a natural and yet underexplored environment to deeply understand the theory, processes and mechanisms of creativity and innovation and their influence on the design, creation, and discovery processes.

Examples of specific goals of this Design Research Thrust are:• Investigating sources and enablers of creativity in the design process;• Understand promoters and barriers in creativity in education and in practice;• Increase the awareness of researchers of methods and theories of creativity to empower them in their

studies; and• Demonstrate examples of creative design across a range of fields

Decision MakingThis research thrust analyses Decision Making of single and multiple decision makers and stakeholders with different objectives/agendas while incorporating a broad set of cultural, social, economic, physical constraints. Among key concerns, the research thrust does and will address are incorporating uncertainty and flexibility, making trade-offs between conflicting objectives, enabling better decision making through the effective use of large scale data sets, the effect of individual decisions on a network of decision makers, and accounting for behavioral effects in decision making models. The thrust develops tools and methods for Decision Making as they apply to the design, implementation and evaluation of processes, services, systems and devices. One of the key goals of the research thrust is to develop a repository of decision-making tools and a map of how they apply to different design grand challenges.

Research Streams: The Decision Making research thrust embodies several emerging and mature streams of work

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• A pioneering focus area of the research thrust is the paradigm-changing area of Flexibility in Design. Recognizing and dealing with uncertainty is central to this effort. The key idea is to implement real options in design.

• An emerging focus area is the integration of different decision making tools such as game theoretic models, behavioural experiments and empirical studies of observed decisions into a coherent model of decentralized decision making by multiple stakeholders.

• Another emerging focus area is networks. Specifically, their modeling and control, social interactions and learning within a network and the accounting for externalities caused by the decisions of participants on the actions of others.

Some detail on pioneering research streams: As we increasingly recognize that projections of future “requirements” are unreliable, we have to change our objective from finding a solution for a specific requirement, to designing to meet the range of situations and needs that will prevail in the future. The paradigmatic shift is from optimizing a solution for a single future, which is actually unlikely to occur, to developing a strategy that performs effectively over many possible futures.

Recognizing and dealing with uncertainty is central to this effort. The effective approach requires us to learn from ongoing developments that resolve early uncertainties, and then to adapt the design in consequence. The task is to develop a “game plan’” to avoid downside outcomes (a ‘win”) and take advantage of upside opportunities (another “win”). This flexible approach thus routinely increases the expected value of designs by 20 to 30% compared to design fixed on a single solution.

The central idea is to implement real options in design. These may be either “on” the system in that they manage the use of the technological design, or “in” the system in that they are part of the technology itself. “On” options concern the timing of when to start or stop the use of a system, and contracts that allocate risks and rewards between stakeholders in the performance outcomes of a system. “In” options enable operators to alter the capacity or function of a technological artifact.

Simulation is the core analytic methodology. It has both theoretical and computational advantages. From the theoretical perspective, it can deal correctly with the non-convex feasible regions that prevail (due to exponential growth, economies of scale and scope, and the inherent non-convexity of option space). Computationally, its approach to sampling possible outcomes enables it to explore very complicated combinations efficiently – in contrast to the alternatively correct forms of evaluating non-convex feasible regions (such as dynamic programming, lattices, etc.). The 2011 MIT Press text “Flexibility in Engineering Design” by de Neufville and Scholtes presents the elements of this approach in detail.

Specific research goals include:Long Term: The long-term objective is to develop a corpus of knowledge about how to implement flexible design for uncertainty. The idea is to determine better ways to identify promising options, to evaluate them, and to implement them – across the range of problem areas that vary by rate of change, relative size of investment and operating costs, size of production runs, and many other factors. This is a sizeable effort that can occupy us for a generation.

Start-up: The start-up goals of this effort within the International Design Center have already been accomplished. The first goal was to establish a presence within the IDC, by aligning activities with at least one of Grand Challenges. The Decision Making Thrust thus works closely with the Sustainable Built Environment Grand Challenge.

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The second goal in the start-up period was to identify areas in which we could apply and test approaches to flexibility in design, both in collaboration with colleagues in the IDC, in Singapore, and beyond. This has led to two main streams of activity. One centers on urban water supply in collaboration with IDC colleagues, and involves doctoral dissertations and masters theses. The second focuses on the real estate developments in rapidly growing cities, such as Singapore. This work collaborates with Singapore institutions, and with the MIT Center for Real Estate. Additionally, we established joint activities with the Technical University of Munich and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Short term: The overall goal in the next few years is to capitalize on the base established during the start-up phase. Specifically, the plan is to:• Complete and publish a monograph on the use of Flexibility in Design for Real Estate Development.• Complete four dissertations begun in the start-up phase.• Successfully bid for and initiate a major research effort in Flexibility in Design (the Government of

Portugal has selected us for a major urban project).• We also expect to initiate, in close collaboration with colleagues who have now joined SUTD, a

substantial effort focusing on contracts, which so often shape the range of alternatives that designers can productively explore.

2020 Goal: By the end of the decade we expect to be at the center of an international network of collaborators who are jointly working on design decision-making. At that point, in a way yet to be defined, we fully expect to be conducting workshops and conferences at affiliated universities and sessions at selected conferences.

Global CollaborationThe work in Global Collaboration is meant to provoke and encourage critical self-reflection on the role of ICT devices, creativity, development, research design, and sustainability. Researchers in Global Collaboration serve as interlocutors, challenging taken-for-granted epistemologies and offering alternative theoretical paradigms and methodological tools especially as related to the educational and research enterprise of a technically intensive institution. One thrust of Global Collaboration fosters the study of intellectual initiatives across broad spatial and temporal scales often considering diverse cultural contexts and contrasting historical legacies. A second thrust provides a forum for studying the technologies that will ultimately support and enable collaborations across long distances. These technologies include networks and all the related systems and device related issues.

Researchers in first thrust of Global Collaboration are charged with the mandate to apply the social sciences to situations in which design and technological development are mired in complex organizations composed of multiple disciplines with varying priorities and histories. The intention of this area within the DRT has always been not only to acknowledge the often-critical role that culture plays in technically intensive design situations but also to advance theory and methodologies that give rise to pathways for more inclusive, culturally resonant and ultimately more effective design efforts. In addition, the work in Global Collaboration is closely tied to the educational mission of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at SUTD.

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Project Title Design Research Thrust PI, Co-PI & Team Members

Testbeds for Research in the Design of Secure Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)

– PI: Aditya Mathur (SUTD)

Research Equipment and Instrumentation for Digital Design and Manufacturing Initiative

– PI: Martin L. Dunn (SUTD)

SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENTProject Title Design Research

Thrust PI, Co-PI & Team Members

Uncertainty in Design for Environment

Decision Making PI: Lynette Cheah Wan Ting (SUTD) co-PI: Karen Willcox (MIT) Team Member: Cassandra Telenko (SUTD-MIT)

Incentive Mechanisms for Patient Routing to Control Crowding in Emergency Departments

Decision Making PI: Shrutivandana Sharma (SUTD)co-PI: Costas Courcoubetis (SUTD), Bikramjit Das (SUTD), Yow Wei Quin (SUTD), Tiah Ling (CGH), Chow Wai Leng (Eastern Health Alliance), Oh Hong Choon (Eastern Health Alliance) Team Members: Tin Aung Soe (Eastern Health Alliance), Reuben Ng (Yale University)

Artificial Design: Design Decoder for Mapping the Genealogy of Design Ideas

Design Computation PI: Jeffrey Huang (SUTD) co-PI: Paul Keel (MIT CSAIL), Luo Jianxi (SUTD) Team Member: Immanuel Koh (SUTD)

A Typology of Climate-Responsive Passive Design Strategies for Tropical High Density Housing

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Fostering Creativity

PI: Oliver Heckmann (SUTD), John Alstan Jakubiec (SUTD) Team Member:Max Doelling (Buro Happold Engineering)


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Topologically Interlocking Joinery

Design Computation

Visualisation and Prototyping

PI: Martin L. Dunn (SUTD), Sawako Kaijima (SUTD)

Automated Building Design Space Exploration

Design Computation PI: Sam Conrad Joyce (SUTD)

Integrated Tools for Efficient Optimization of Parametric Designs

Design Computation PI: Thomas Schroepfer (SUTD), Giacomo Nannicini (SUTD)

New 2D materials MXenes and its applications

Experimental Design PI: Yang Hui Ying (SUTD)

Digital Fabrication of Seamless Planar Structures Based on Three-Axis CNC Machines


PI: Chen Lujie (SUTD), Larry Sass (MIT)

Topologically Interlocking Joinery

Design Computation


PI: Martin L. Dunn (SUTD), Sawako Kaijima (SUTD)

Automated Building Design Space Exploration

Design Computation PI: Sam Conrad Joyce (SUTD)

Integrated Tools for Efficient Optimization of Parametric Designs

Design Computation PI: Thomas Schroepfer (SUTD), Giacomo Nannicini (SUTD)

Gesture Based 3D Modeling in Conceptual Architectural Design


PI: Bige Tuncer (SUTD), Suranga Nanayakkara (SUTD)

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DESIGN WITH THE DEVELOPING WORLDProject Title Design Research


Predicting Mechanical Behaviour of Composites with Long Natural Fibers

Experimental Design PI: Arlindo Silva (SUTD)

Three-dimensional hierarchical NiCo2O4 Nanostructures for Flexible Asymmetric Supercapacitor

Experimental Design PI: Yang Hui Ying (SUTD)

Participation Evaluation in Design WITH the Developing World: Part

Global Collaboration PI: Samson Lim (SUTD) co-PI: Victoria Gerrard (SUTD), Mihye Cho (SUTD), To Kien (SUTD), Chong Keng Hua (SUTD) Team Member: Ricardo Sosa (SUTD)

ICT-ENABLED DEVICES FOR BETTER LIVING


Advances in Structural Control of Networked Systems

Decision Making PI: Supratim Ghosh (SUTD)

A Learning Optimisation Paradigm for Design Processes

Design Computation PI: Yeung Sai-Kit (SUTD) Team Members: Stanley Kok (SUTD), To Kien (SUTD), Demetri Terzopoulos (UCLA), Zhou Kun (Zhejiang University), Vladlen Koltun (Stanford University),Yu-Wing Tai (KAIST)

Code Like A PRO (CLAP) Design Computation PI: Alexander Binder (SUTD) co-PI: Lu Wei (SUTD), Oka Kurniawan (SUTD), Mohan Rajesh Elara (SUTD) Team Member: Liu Junhua (SUTD), Sunardi (SUTD)


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Predictive Modeling and Adaptive Feedback for Improved Quality Control of 3D Printed Products

Design Computation PI: Nagarajan Raghavan (SUTD), Chen Lujie (SUTD), Dan Frey (MIT)

Real-time Non-Invasive Magnetic Field-Based Localization of Nasogastric Tube

Design Computation PI: Foong Shaohui (SUTD) co-PI: Asim Shabbir (NUH),Teo Tee Hui (SUTD) Team Member: Tan U-Xuan (SUTD)

Active Flow Separation Control

Experimental Design PI: Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado (SUTD), Kenneth Tracy (SUTD), Christine Yogiaman (SUTD)

Design of Reconfigurable Robotic Systems for Mosquito Surveillance / Targeting to Control Infectious Diseases

Experimental Design PI: Mohan Rajesh Elara (SUTD), Rajesh Chandramohanadas (SUTD) Team Members: Tan Ning (SUTD)

Design of Novel Composite Nanomaterials as Advanced Structural and Functional Materials in Next Generation Renewable Energy, Transportation, Defense, Aerospace and Space Technologies

Experimental Design PI: Arief Budiman (SUTD) co-PI: Lee Chee Huei (SUTD), Michael Demkowicz (MIT), Gan Chee Lip (NTU) Team Members: Yang Hui Ying (SUTD)

Design Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems

Experimental Design PI: Roland Bouffanais (SUTD)

Mid-IR On Chip Nanophotonics

Experimental Design PI: Dawn T. H. Tan (SUTD)

Passive Soft-Robots for Long-Term Marine Pollution Studies

Experimental Design PI: Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado (SUTD)

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List of Current IDC ProjectsProject Title Design Research


Collective Decision Making for the Design of New Products and Services

Fostering Creativity PI: Bige Tunçer (SUTD) co-PI: Niyazi Taneri, Arnoud De Meyer (SMU) Team Member: Ozge Tuncel (SUTD)

Design of Biomimetic Dry-Adhesive Analogues Based on Electrospun Fibers

Fostering Creativity PI: Avinash Baji (SUTD) Team Members: Low Hong Yee (SUTD)

Design of Spectrum Shaping Codes Based Reception Techniques for Dedicated Servo Recording Systems

Fostering Creativity PI: Cai Kui (SUTD), Zhao Rong (SUTD)

MEMS Energy Harvesting Video

Fostering Creativity PI: Kim Sang-Gook (MIT)

Non-Volatile Memory – based Low Power Field Programmable Gate Array for Smart Electronics Applications

Fostering Creativity PI: Zhao Rong (SUTD) co-PI: Cheah Chin Wei (SUTD), Teo Tee Hui (SUTD) Team Member: Robert Edward Simpson (SUTD), Sang-Gook Kim (MIT)

A Pilot Project for Developing Smart Energy Management System Prototype


PI: Yuen Chau (SUTD), Wayes Tushar (SUTD)

New Spatial Audio Processing Algorithm for Audio Sources Isolation and Localization


PI: Chen Jia Jia (SUTD)

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