Awards

DTM Award

The DTM award was developed to recognize sustained contributions to research, education, training, service, and overall leadership in advancing the field of Design Theory and Methodology. The award is intended for ASME members with primary affiliation with the DTM technical committee within the Design Engineering Division.

DTM Young Investigator Award

The DTM Young Investigator Award was established to recognize meritorious contributions to research, education, service, training of researchers or practitioners, overall leadership in advancing the field, or any combination of these in the field of Design Theory and Methodology by young investigators.

2023: John Gero
2022: Timothy Simpson
2021: Warren Seering
2020: Daniel McAdams
2019: Deborah Thurston

2018: Kris Wood
2017: Alice Agogino
2016: Jon Cagan
2015: Clive Dym

2023: Jessica Menold
2022: Kosa Goucher-Lambert
2021: Christopher McComb
2020: Kate Fu

DTM Best Paper Award

2020s

Gender-Based Social Revolutions and Their Effect on Technology Evolution: A Case Study of the Sewing Machine. Samantha Kang and Andy Dong. DETC2023-114613
Objects of Collaboration: Roles of objects in spanning knowledge boundaries in a design company. Eric Brubaker, Sheri Sheppard, Panela Hinds, and Maria Yang. MD-22-1365
Toward Computer Aided Visual Analogy Support: Augmenting Designers Through Deep Learning. Zijian Zhang and Yan Jin. DETC2021-70961
Method Selection in Human-Centered Design Teams: An Examination of Decision-Making Strategies. Vivek Rao, Euyoung Kim, Jieun Kwon, Alice Agogino and Kosa Goucher-Lambert. DETC2020-22669

2010s

Evaluating Crowdsourced Design Concepts with Machine Learning. Bradley Camburn, Yuejun He, Sujithra Raviselvam, Jianxi Luo, Kristin Wood. DETC2019-97285
A Makerspace Is More Than Just a Room Full of Tools: What Learning Looks Like for Female Students in Makerspaces. Megan Tomko, Amanda Schwartz, Wendy Newstetter, Melissa Alemán, Robert Nagel, Julie Linsey. DETC2018-86276
Product Performance Evolution Prediction by Lotka-Volterra Equations. Guanglu Zhang, Daniel A. McAdams, Milad Mohammadi Darani, Venkatesh Shankar. DETC2017-67369
Design Roadmapping: A Framework and Case Study of Planning Development of High-Tech Products in Silicon Valley. Euiyoung Kim, Jaewoo Chung, Sara Beckman, Alice M. Agogino. DETC2016-59392
Balancing Design Freedom and Brand Recognition in the Evolution of Automotive Brand Styling. Alex Burnap, Jeffrey Hartley, Yanxin Pan, Richard Gonzalez and Panos Y. Papalambros. DETC2015-47908
The Impact of Sustainability on Consumer Preference Judgments of Product Attributes. Kosa Goucher-Lambert and Jonathan Cagan. DETC2014-34739
The Influence of Timing in Exploratory Prototyping and Other Activities in Design Projects. Anders Häggman, Tomonori Honda and Maria C. Yang. DETC2013-12700
The Meaning of "Near" and "Far": The Impact of Structuring Design Databases and the Effect of Distance of Analogy on Design Output. Katherine Fu, Joel Chan, Jonathan Cagan, Kenneth Kotovsky, Christian Schunn and Kristin Wood. DETC2012-70420
Understanding of Emotions and Reasoning During Consumer Tradeoff Between Function and Aesthetics in Product Design. Brian Sylcott, Jonathan Cagan and Golnaz Tabibnia. DETC2011-48173
Potential Limitations of Verbal Protocols in Design Experiments. Ivey Chiu and Li H. Shu. DETC2010-28675

2000s

The Characteristics of Innovative, Mechanical Products. Matthew N. Saunders, Carolyn C. Seepersad and Katja Hölttä-Otto. DETC2009-87382
Overcoming Blocks in Conceptual Design: The Effects of Open Goals and Analogical Similarity on Idea Generation. Ian Tseng, Jarrod Moss, Jonathan Cagan and Kenneth Kotovsky. DETC2008-49276
An Evaluation of the Pugh Controlled Convergence Method. Daniel D. Frey, Paulien M. Herder, Ype Wijnia, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Konstantinos Katsikopoulos and Don P. Clausing. DETC2007-34758
Identifying Customer Needs: Disabled Persons as Lead Users. Pia Hannukainen and Katja Hölttä-Otto. DETC2006-99043
Affordances in Product Architecture: Linking Technical Functions and Users' Tasks. Adriano B. Galvao and Keiichi Sato. DETC2005-84525
Insights on Designers' Sketching Activities in New Product Design Teams. Shuang Song and Alice M. Agogino. DETC2004-57474
Combinatorial Laws for Physically Meaningful Design. Vasu Ramaswamy and Vadim Shapiro. DETC2003/DTM-48654
Creative Stimulation in Conceptual Design. Oren Benami and Yan Jin. DETC2002/DTM-34023
Product Development Process Modeling Using Advanced Simulation. Soo-Haen Cho and Steven Eppinger. DETC2001/DTM-21691
A Model for the Flow of Design Information in Design. Steven B. Shooter and Simon Szykman. DETC2000/DTM-14550

1990s and Earlier

Product Architecture Development with Quantitative Functional Models. Robert B. Stone, Kristin L. Wood, and Richard H. Crawford. DETC99/DTM-8764
Agent-Based Synthesis of Electro-Mechanical Design Configurations. Matthew I. Campbell, Jonathan Cagan, and Kenneth Kotovsky. DETC98/DTM-5673
Creative Design Methodology and the SIT Method. Roni Horowitz and Oded Maimon. DETC97/DTM-3865
HVAC CAD Layout Tools: A Case Study of University /Industry Collaboration. Jonathan Cagan, Richard Clark, Pratip Dastidar, Simon Szykman, and Paul Weisser. 96-DETC/DTM-1505
Generalized Models of Design Iteration Using Signal Flow Graphics. Steven D. Eppinger, Murthy V. Nukala, and Daniel E. Whitney. DETC1995-0175
Optimal Tolerancing : The Link Between Design and Manufacturing Productivity. Mark Iannuzzi and Eric Sandgren. DETC1994-0004
Wavelet Transforms in Fractal-Based Form Tolerancing. Kristin L. Wood and R. S. Srinivasan. DETC1993-0007
Fractal-Based Geometric Tolerancing for Mechanical Design. R. S. Srinivasan and Kristin L. Wood. JMD 117(1)
An Intelligent Real Time Design Methodology for Component Selection.
S. R. Bradley and A. M. Agogino. DETC1991-0049
Representing and Recognizing Features in Mechanical Designs. Susan Finger and Scott A. Safier. DETC1990-0103
Quantitative Inference in a Mechanical Design Compiler. Allen C. Ward and Warren P. Seering. DETC1989-0011