Thursday 26th of April 2012
The 2nd International Conference on Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes (MMEP 2012), organised by the Special Interest Group of the Design Society, will be held 29th – 30th November 2012 at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
On behalf of the Special Interest Group MMEP of the Design Society this event is being organised by the Engineering Design Centre at Cambridge University. Following the research roadmapping work carried out in 2009-2010 the organisers would encourage researchers and colleagues from industry to submit papers within the following areas:
- Metrics & ROI & Value of process modelling
- Human factors in process modelling and management
- Uncertainty in process modelling
- Visualization of design processes
Furthermore we also would like to welcome papers addressing the following topics:
- Theoretical foundation of modelling and management of engineering processes and achievements in theory
- Experiences from management practice using various modelling methods and tools and their future challenges
- New perspectives on modelling methods, techniques and tools
Papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in an edited book available for the conference.
Important dates:
- 15 March 2012 Call for Papers
- 15 June 2012 Submission of full paper (12 pages)
- (One of the reviewers will be from industry)
- 31 July 2012 Notification of paper acceptance
- 30 September 2012 Deadline for camera-ready version
- 31 August 2012 Advance registration ends
- 15 November 2012 Late registration ends
- 29-30 November 2012 2nd International MMEP 2012 Conference
A poster session will be held showing the contributions of the other contributors.
The conference website will be set up shortly.
Thursday 26th of April 2012
The 4th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD'13) will be held 7-9 January 2013, at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India.
The theme for ICoRD'13 is "Global Product Development".
ICoRD'13 is the fourth in a series of conferences intended to be held every two years in India to bring together the international community from diverse areas of design practice, teaching and research, to: showcase cutting edge research about design to the stakeholders; aid the ongoing process of developing and extending the collective vision through emerging research challenges and questions; and provide a platform for interaction, collaboration and development of the community in order for it to take up the challenges to realise the vision.
The conference is an endorsed event of the Design Society. The organising committee invites submissions of research papers in all areas of design. This includes all dimensions, e.g., people, product, tools, processes and environments of design, with research results contributing to its understanding and support.
Important Dates:
Abstracts Due: 30 May 2012
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 6 June 2012
Full Papers Due: 22 July 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 23 September 2012 Final Papers Due: 7 October 2012 Copyright Transfer Form Due: 15 October 2012
Please see the events section of the Design Society homepage or the ICoRD 13 homepage for more details.
more info: www.icord2013.iitm.ac.in
Friday 23rd of March 2012
The aim of the Design Society is to support building a truly world-wide community for all aspects of development and design. The Society feels obliged to help scientists and practitioners from developing countries to join in.
For this reason, in 2010 a completely new membership fee structure was introduced: The Design Society’s membership fees are differentiated according to the gross national income (GNI) per capita of the member’s home country, using the World Bank Atlas method (for details see the World Bank homepage). This means:
- Members and Fellows: A membership fee of 100/75/50/25 GBP for countries in the World Bank categories “high income”/”upper middle income”/”lower middle income”/”low income”
- Associate Members and retired Members: A membership fee of 40/30/20/10 GBP for countries in the World Bank categories “high income”/”upper middle income”/”lower middle income”/”low income”
The World Bank updates its data around the beginning of each year. The Design Society follows these updates, with revisions valid beginning from the next period of membership renewal (01/07 of the respective year).
Please see the membership section of the Design Society’s homepage for further information, the current table of countries, their allocation according to the World Bank Atlas method classification, and the related Design Society membership fee.
Notable changes (countries where we have or have had Members) for 2012 are:
- China, now “upper middle income”, fee 75/30 GBP for Members/Associate Members
- Ghana, now “lower middle income”, fee 50/20 GBP for Members/Associate Members
- Poland, now “high income”, fee 100/40 GBP for Members/Associate Members
Please contact membership(at)designsociety(dot)org if you have any questions.
more info: www.designsociety.org/membership_informa...
Tuesday 14th of February 2012
The 9th Workshop on Integrated Product Development (IPD 2012) is again organised by the Chair of Information Technologies in Mechanical Engineering at the Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sándor Vajna).
It will take place on 05.-07.09.2012 at the Hotel "Elbresidenz" in Magdeburg, Germany.
The bi-annual IPD Workshops are events endorsed by the Design Society.
Based on discussions at ICED 11 and at other events, it seems to make a lot of sense to discuss the issue of fundamentals of Integrated Design Engineering (IDE) and their significance in an international context. IDE is the further development of IPD (IPD 2.0), based on eight equivalent product dimensions.
Of course, also other topics of IPD are welcome for presentation.
As in previous IPD workshops the focus will be both on presentations and content-related discussions. Young scientists are especially encouraged to present their research results.
Deadline for submission (full papers): 15.08.2012
For more information please contact Mr. Andreas Wünsch (andreas.wuensch@ovgu.de).
more info: www.ipd-workshop.de
Tuesday 31st of January 2012
As intended by its founder Prof. Meerkamm, the conference series “Symposium Design for X” is continued by Prof. Paetzold, Prof. Wartzack and Prof. Krause in collaboration.
The 23rd DFX symposium will take place 04.-05.10.2012 in Bamberg, Germany, and will be hosted by the chair of engineering design KTmfk of the University of Erlangen (Prof. Wartzack).
As before, the 23st Symposium offers a platform to young postgraduates to present and discuss their new approaches in the field of product development. Industry representatives and professors will enrich these discussions with their manifold experience.
Main topics of this year’s symposium are
- human-centered design,
- tolerances/ robust design,
- lightweight design and
- knowledge-based engineering.
In addition to these topics, of course all contributions from the broad field of “Design for X” are welcome.
Main conference language will be German, nevertheless contributions in English will be gladly accepted. Contributions to the DfX-Symposium 2012 can be submitted until June 1st, 2012 as an extended 3-page abstract.
Important dates:
01.06.2012 Deadline for the submission of contributions (extended / 3-page abstracts)
29.06.2012 Notification of acceptance including reviews
27.07.2012 Deadline for the submission of final contributions (full papers)
04.-05.10.2012 Conference in Bamberg, Germany
Please visit the homepage of the event (see below) for further information.
more info: www.dfx-symposium.de
