New Design Paradigm and Processes
Research in this thrust area is focused on advancing a design paradigm to support functionality-based design and reasoning in the conceptual design phase of product development. It also supports research to capture and model the designer’s intent at product conceptualization.

Sample research clusters include:
  • Function-Based Design
  • From Form to Function
  • Product Data Modeling
  • Hybrid Representation for Subscription-Based Information Flow
  • Engineering Knowledge Modeling
  • For more information on this research thrust visit the e-Design UMass research website

Other Research Thrusts

Enabling Information Infrastructure

Design Optimization

New Design Paradigm and Processes

Visualizing and Virtual Prototyping