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Welcome Letters

IDETC/CIE

29TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN THEORY AND METHODOLOGY (DTM)

On behalf of the ASME Design Theory and Methodology Committee, we would like to welcome you to the 29th International Conference on
Design Theory and Methodology (DTM). Our conference focuses on fundamental design theory and methodologies, and to apply them in an
engineering context, with contributions provided by both researchers and practitioners. This 2017 DTM conference includes 46 technical papers
and 8 technical presentations presented in 12 sessions across eight topics areas below:

• DTM-1 Creativity Ideation • DTM-10 Prototyping and Design Representation

• DTM-3 User Preferences • DTM-11 Design of Complex Systems

• DTM-5 Human Behavior in Design • DTM-12 Entrepreneurship and teams in design

• DTM-6 Sustainability in Design - (Design and Energy) • DTM-14 New and Emerging Trends in Design Theory

We would like to thank the authors for submitting their research to the conference. There were 74 full length technical papers submitted to the
DTM Conference for peer review, of which 46 were selected for publication in the conference proceedings. The paper review process is essential
to the success of the conference, and this year we are indebted to an excellent group of reviewers for committing their time and considerable
expertise. As always, this peer review process was successfully managed by several DTM Review Coordinators: Alice Agogino, Saeema
Ahmed-Kristensen, James Allison, Marco Aurisicchio, Jesse Austin-Breneman, Jon Cagan, Amaresh Chakrabarti, Claudia Eckert, Scott Ferguson,
Katherine Fu, Dan Jensen, Barry Kudrowitz, Julie Linsey, Erin MacDonald, Scarlett Miller, Jitesh Panchal, Li Shu, Deborah Thurston, Christine Toh,
Douglas Van Bossuyt, Noe Vargas Hernandez, Vimal Viswanathan, and Kristin Wood. We sincerely appreciate the time and effort these
individuals contributed to maintaining the high quality of this DTM conference.

This year, five papers were nominated for the DTM Best Paper Award:

• IDETC2017-67261: Divergent Thinking Ability + Interest = Creative Ideas: Exploring the Relationships between Cognitive Creativity
Assessments and Product Design Idea Generation by Jieun Kwon, Luke Bromback, and Barry Kudrowitz.

• IDETC2017-67369: Product Performance Evolution Prediction by Lotka-Volterra Equations by Guanglu Zhang, Daniel A. McAdams,
Milad Mohammadi Darani, and Venkatesh Shankar.

• IDETC2017-67513: Object Reorientation and Creative Performance by A. M. Oltețeanu and L. H. Shu.

• IDETC2017-68127: The Design of the Crowd: Organizing Mass Collaboration Efforts by Zachary Ball and Kemper Lewis.

• IDETC2017-68366: Design Preference Prediction with Data Privacy Safeguards: A Preliminary Study by Alexander Burnap and
Panos Papalambros.

Each one of these papers is of the highest quality, but the committee selected IDETC2017-67369 Product Performance Evolution Prediction
by Lotka-Volterra Equations by Guanglu Zhang, Daniel A. McAdams, Milad Mohammadi Darani, and Venkatesh Shankar as the DTM Best Paper.
The Best Paper will be presented on Tuesday afternoon at 4pm in DTM 11-1: Design of Complex Systems.

On Wednesday at 1:15pm, there will be a new type of session featuring technical presentations, or short “lightning talks”, about visions for future
research in design theory and methodology. These technical presentations will not appear in the proceedings, so the only opportunity to learn
about them will be during this session. Finally, we invite you to participate in the DTM Technical Committee Meeting on Tuesday evening. This
year, the ASME Design Theory and Methodology Award will be presented to Dr. Alice Agogino.

We welcome you to Cleveland, Ohio and the 29th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology!

Chair Program Chair
14 Greg Mocko Maria Yang
MIT
Clemson University