Title: L‘see’A: How to visualize sustainability in engineering design?
Speaker: Prof. Devarajan Ramanujan, Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Aarhus University, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date, time & venue: 16th July 2024 (Tuesday), 3:30 PM, MMCR, Dept. of Design and Manufacturing (erstwhile CPDM, IISc)
Abstract:
Life cycle assessments (LCAs) are widely used for identifying opportunities for redesigning engineered parts from a sustainability perspective. However, data representations and results presentations in LCAs remain disconnected from those used for engineering design. This disconnect makes it challenging to apply results from LCAs towards design decision-making. To be better integrated into design processes, LCA results should guide design synthesis and exploration, while supporting human sensemaking processes. This talk presents LCA results visualization and interpretation approaches based on information visualization and scientific visualization that project sustainability-information back to design. Results from real-world case studies on mapping and visualizing LCA results to computer aided design models will be discussed along with existing opportunities and challenges for translating the presented methods into industrial practice.
Speaker Bio:
Devarajan (Dev) Ramanujan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark. He also leads the Design and Manufacturing Section. He joined Aarhus University in 2017. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA from 2016-2017 and earned his Ph.D. in 2015 from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, USA. He directs the Life Cycle Design and Manufacturing Research Group, which focuses on creating computer-aided methods and tools for integrating sustainability and circularity assessments into design and manufacturing. The group’s research is grounded in real-world practice and is conducted in close collaboration with manufacturing industries, standards agencies, and industrial innovation clusters. His research and teaching have been recognized through awards from the ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers), Association of EcoDesign Societies in Japan, Aarhus University, and Purdue University.
