Dr William Wood
 Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250
Office: Engineering 214
Phone: (410) 455-3314
Fax: (410) 455-1052
Email: bwood@umbc.edu
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Academic Preparation
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Duke University, 1989
B.S., Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Duke University, 1985 |
Employment History
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1998 Onwards
Research Associate, Center for Design Research, Stanford University 1996-1998
Systems Consultant - SFCU - Stanford, CA 1996 - 1998
Consultant - Sargent & Lundy Engineers, Chicago, IL 1993
Research Engineer - Nortel - RTP NC 1988
Control Systems Engineer - CRS Sirrine, RTP, NC 1985 - 1987 |
Research Areas
I am interested in design theories for modeling and improving conceptual design. These must not only strike a balance between design experience and normative methods but also apply throughout the design process from initial abstract requirements to manufacturable parts.
Modern design requires considering the needs of an expanded set of design customers in evaluating an increasingly rich set of possible designs. Conceptual design is the foundation of the design process, good decision-making early in the design process is critical to its overall success. In the Intelligent Design Lab, our research focuses on the coupled problem of generating and evaluating design options. Computational synthesis
provides the mechanism for creating new designs, but the underlying knowledge must balance engineering first principles with real-world experience. Decision-based conceptual design adapts theoretically sound decision methods to the process of conceptual design.
In concert, these approaches attack conceptual design as a coupled problem where the design and the model used to evaluate it co-evolve.
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Courses Taught at UMBC ME
ENME444 - Systems Design (every semester)
ENME610 - Systems Optimization (each Spring)
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Selected Publications
Decision-Based Conceptual Design: Modeling and Navigating Heterogeneous Design Spaces, 2004,Wood, W. and A. Agogino, A., to appear Journal of Mechanical Design.
Toward Case-Based Functional Design: Matching Reverse Engineering Practice with the Design Process, 2004, Verma, M. and W. Wood, to appear Design Studies.
Decision-Based Design: A Vehicle for Curriculum Integration, 2004, Wood, W., International Journal of Engineering Education, 20(2).
Functional Modeling: Toward a Common Language for Design and Reverse Engineering, 2003, Verma, M. and W. Wood, ASME International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, DETC2003/DTM-
48660.
Issues in Integration of Design and Manufacturing for Mechatronics, 2003, Dong, H. and W. Wood, ASME Design for Manufacture Conference, DETC2003/DFM-48134.
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