Abstract

The challenge of holistically integrating environmental sustainability considerations with design decision-making requires novel representations for design and sustainability-related data that allow designers to understand correlations among them. Challenges such as (1) lack of suitable data & information models, (2) methods that simultaneously consider environmental sustainability as well as design constraints, and (3) uncertainty models for characterizing subjectivity in environmental sustainability-based decision making, pose serious impediments towards this goal.

Keywords

Decision Making, Design for Environment, Environmentally Conscious Product Design, Information Visualization, Sustainability Education, Sustainable Design

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Mechanical Engineering

First Advisor

Karthik Ramani

Committee Member 1

Fu Zhao

Committee Member 2

John W. Sutherland

Committee Member 3

Niklas Elmqvist

Date of Award

January 2015

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