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Welcome Letters

IDETC/CIE

13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN EDUCATION (DEC)
On behalf of the Design Education Committee we welcome you to the we received 32 submissions. The acceptance rate is about 72%. Refer to
13th annual International Conference on Design Education. The focus of the conference Technical Program for the times and locations for the
this conference is on design education among educators, practitioners, sessions.
and researchers.
A Best Paper has been selected for the 2016 DEC Conference. It is
We have three special events this year. Our keynote presentation is by DETC2016-59038 Understanding the Impact of Expertise on Design
Kristin Wood, who will speak on “Pulses Styles and Innovations in Design Outcome: Approach Based on Concept Inventories and Item Response
Education.” He plans to present a broad perspective on various pedagogi- Theory, by Murtuza Shergadwala, Karthik N. Kannan, and Jitesh H.
cal themes and discuss the application and development of the Big-D Panchal. It is scheduled at 2:00pm on Monday, August 22.
design approach and curriculum at The Singapore University of Technolo-
gy and Design. Big-D design encompasses all types of technical design
We extend special appreciation to our technical session Review Coordina-
that include the art and science of design. The keynote will be Monday at
tors: Xiaoping Du, Beshoy Morkos, Jacquelyn Nagel, Robert Nagel, Linda
4:00pm; check the Technical Program for the location.
Schmidt, Zahra Shahbazi, Zahed Siddique, Joshua Summers, and Janet
Allen. We also give our sincerest thanks to all the reviewers of technical
Our second special event is “The Designing for the Future Competition,” papers; they have ensured the quality of this year's conference.
which has been organized to showcase undergraduate capstone design
experiences. The DEC believes that encouraging the undergraduates in
The DEC technical committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 23,
design activities is critical to its mission of improving education in the art
at 6:00pm, where we present many of the DEC Awards and plan for next
and the science of mechanical engineering design. Four capstone teams
year’s conference. Everyone is welcome to attend. Our meeting is
of finalists will present their work. All conference attendees are invited to
streamlined to respect members' participation on other committees.
support and enjoy the student presentations scheduled for Tuesday at
2:00pm; check the Technical Program for the location. We are grateful to
Jitesh Panchal and Zahed Siddique for facilitating this competition. We welcome you to ASME’s 13th International Conference on Design
Education, which has been designed for you to have a successful and
useful conference in Charlotte.
Our third special event is a panel session organized by Farrokh Mistree
and Janet Allen called “Being a Professor is the Best Job in the World.”
DTM and DAC are co-sponsors of this panel. In this panel session, the
emphasis is on how to be happy and successful in pursuing a career in
academia. The hope is that early career professors are encouraged that

they have made the right decision and that those contemplating pursuing

careers in academia will be inspired that being a professor is the best job

in the world. The panel session will be Tuesday at 9:00am.
Janet Allen Zahra Shahbazi
Conference Chair Program Chair
The emphasis of the DEC technical sessions is on research in design
University of Oklahoma Manhattan College
education and best practices in the field. This year's DEC Program consists
of five technical sessions organized by topic areas: Designing Engineering Purcell, OK, United States Riverdale, NY, United States
Design Courses, Extensions to the Engineering Design Curriculum, Design janet.allen@ou.edu zahra.shahbazi@manhattan.edu
Education in the Curriculum, Evaluation and Assessment in Design
Education, and Short Papers in Engineering Design Education. This year

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