{"id":26510,"date":"2025-04-30T22:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dm.iisc.ac.in\/dm\/?p=26510"},"modified":"2025-04-30T22:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:15:30","slug":"asme-ruth-and-joel-spira-outstanding-design-educator-award-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dm.iisc.ac.in\/dm\/2025\/04\/30\/asme-ruth-and-joel-spira-outstanding-design-educator-award-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"ASME RUTH AND JOEL SPIRA OUTSTANDING DESIGN EDUCATOR AWARD 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Professor\u00a0Amaresh Chakrabarti<\/a>,\u00a0Chair and Senior Professor at the Department of Design and Manufacturing,\u00a0Indian Institute of Science (IISc)<\/a> has been honoured with the prestigious\u00a0ASME RUTH AND JOEL SPIRA OUTSTANDING DESIGN EDUCATOR AWARD 2025<\/a><\/div>\n
The\u00a0ASME Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award<\/a>\u00a0was established in 2001 to recognize a person who exemplifies the best in furthering engineering design education through vision, interactions with students and industry, scholarship and impact on the next generation of engineers, and a person whose action serves as a role model for other educators to emulate.<\/div>\n
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Prof. Chakrabarti received the prestigious award for “significant contributions\u00a0to design education around the world through the development of innovative teaching and research programmes, and for leadership in the global design community”.<\/div>\n
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Prof. Chakrabarti is a distinguished expert in engineering design and manufacturing, holding degrees from\u00a0IIEST Shibpur<\/a>\u00a0(BE),\u00a0IISc<\/a>\u00a0(ME), and\u00a0University of Cambridge<\/a>, UK (PhD). After leading the Design Synthesis group at the EPSRC funded Centre of Excellence called the\u00a0Engineering Design Centre<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Cambridge for a decade, he returned to IISc, pioneering design research in India. He founded\u00a0IDeASLab<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 India\u2019s first Design Observatory.<\/div>\n
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His interests span design synthesis, creativity, sustainability, AI, informatics, and Industry 4.0. He has authored 35 books, over 300 peer-reviewed articles, and holds 13 patents. His key contributions include developing measures for design creativity, Idea-Inspire \u2013 the first biomimetic inspiration tool, and FuncSION \u2013 the first automated configuration synthesis tool. He co-developed\u00a0Design Research Methodology (DRM)<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the most widely used design research methodology in the world, with 3207 citations since 2009 on Google Scholar\u00a0(https:\/\/scholar.google.co.in\/citations?user=VvD5STUAAAAJ&hl=en<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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He is enlisted as the highest cited researcher from India in the \u2019Design Practice and Management\u2019 category of the top 2% of researchers in the Stanford University study on the global scientific impact of researchers. He co-initiated India\u2019s first\u00a0Smart Factory<\/a>, the\u00a0ICoRD<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0I-4AM<\/a>\u00a0conference series,\u00a0CPDMED<\/a>, India\u2019s first tech incubator for elderly healthcare, and D-CoE, a\u00a0Centre of Excellence in Design<\/a>. He also led the initiation of IISc\u2019s MTech in smart manufacturing and a professional\u00a0PG certification in Industry 4.0<\/a>. Among his numerous accolades are the Jawaharlal Nehru Predoctoral Fellowship, Cambridge Lundgren Award, UK Vice-Chancellors’ Award,\u00a0TUM Ambassador Awardee from TU Munich Germany<\/a>, and Jubilee Professorship, Chalmers University, Sweden, He is an Honorary Fellow of the\u00a0Institution of Engineering Designers<\/a>, the highest honour of the peer society under the UK Royal Charter in engineering design. Professor Chakrabarti was recognized as the \u201cMost Outstanding Researcher\u201d in Decision Sciences during 2015-17 with a 2018\u00a0Careers360 Outstanding Faculty Award<\/a>\u00a0from the Hon\u2019 Union Minister of HRD, Shri Prakash Javadekar. He received\u00a0Alumni Award for Excellence in Research in Engineering<\/a>\u00a0in 2022\u00a0from the Alumni Association of IISc to recognize excellence in research – through research guidance, publications (individual as well as joint), establishing research groups; Contributions to Industry and R&D work resulting in patent for commercialization; and Establishing new schools for research, special research groups in specialized areas, and innovative programmes of research. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal\u00a0AI EDAM<\/a>, Cambridge University Press, being its first non-US Editor-in-Chief.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Professor\u00a0Amaresh Chakrabarti,\u00a0Chair and Senior Professor at the Department of Design and Manufacturing,\u00a0Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has been honoured with the prestigious\u00a0ASME RUTH AND JOEL SPIRA OUTSTANDING DESIGN EDUCATOR AWARD 2025 The\u00a0ASME Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award\u00a0was established in 2001 to recognize a person who exemplifies the best in furthering engineering design education through vision, interactions with students and industry, scholarship and impact on the next generation of engineers, and a person whose action serves as a role model for other educators to emulate. Prof. Chakrabarti received the prestigious award for \"significant contributions\u00a0to design education around the world through the development of innovative teaching and research programmes, and for leadership in the global design community\". Prof. Chakrabarti is a distinguished expert in engineering design and manufacturing, holding degrees from\u00a0IIEST Shibpur\u00a0(BE),\u00a0IISc\u00a0(ME), and\u00a0University of Cambridge, UK (PhD). After leading the Design Synthesis group at the EPSRC funded Centre of Excellence called the\u00a0Engineering Design Centre\u00a0at the University of Cambridge for a decade, he returned to IISc, pioneering design research in India. He founded\u00a0IDeASLab\u00a0\u2013 India\u2019s first Design Observatory. His interests span design synthesis, creativity, sustainability, AI, informatics, and Industry 4.0. He has authored 35 books, over 300 peer-reviewed articles, and holds...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dm.iisc.ac.in\/dm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dm.iisc.ac.in\/dm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dm.iisc.ac.in\/dm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dm.iisc.ac.in\/dm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dm.iisc.ac.in\/dm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dm.iisc.ac.in\/dm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26512,"href":"https:\/\/dm.iisc.ac.in\/dm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26510\/revisions\/26512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dm.iisc.ac.in\/dm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dm.iisc.ac.in\/dm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dm.iisc.ac.in\/dm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dm.iisc.ac.in\/dm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}