Date of Award
January 2015
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
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.
Recommended Citation
Ramanujan, Devarajan, "Data Representation Methods For Environmentally Conscious Product Design" (2015). Open Access Dissertations. 1297.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1297