Design Theory and Methodology

The Design Theory and Methodology (DTM) Technical Committee sits within ASME's Design Engineering Division (DED).

Awards

2024 Best Paper

Reading Users’ Minds from What They Say: An Investigation into LLM-based Empathic Mental Inference. Qihao Zhu, Leah Chong, Maria Yang, Jianxi Luo. DETC2024-143961

2024 DTM Award

Maria Yang

2024 DTM Young Investigator Award

Faez Ahmed

Leadership

2024-25 Technical Committee

2024-25 Program Committee

Next Annual Meeting

TBD Time at IDETC 2025

TBD Location at IDETC 2025

ASME IDETC-CIE 2025

August 17-20, 2025 | Anaheim, California

About

The Design Theory and Methodology (DTM) conference promotes research, dissemination of knowledge, and debate in topics including scientific theories of design, creativity and innovation in design, formal design methods, product modeling, design pedagogy, and design management. We welcome inter-disciplinary perspectives that extend the understanding of and application of design. Authors and presenters are invited to participate in this event to expand international cooperation, understanding, and promotion of efforts and disciplines in the area of Design Theory and Methodology. Dissemination of knowledge by presenting research results, new developments, and novel concepts at DTM serves as the foundation upon which knowledge in this field advances. Scholarly papers describing rigorous research in all areas of design theory and methodology are invited.

Mission

The mission of the Design Theory and Methodology Committee is to facilitate and enhance the development of design theories and the methods that grow from them.