Dr. Chiradeep Sen is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He has been on the faculty of Florida Tech since 2014. His research interests are design theory and methodology, formal representations and reasoning in design, function-based design, and design & manufacturing automation. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, General Motors Company, United States Council for Automotive Research (USCAR), and the Kern Family Foundation.

Dr. Sen received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Clemson University’s CEDAR lab, and he was a post-doctoral scholar at the Design Engineering Lab at Oregon State University. His doctoral research on formal representation and reasoning in function-based design won the ASME Best Dissertation Award.

Dr. Sen has over thirteen years of industry experience in design, manufacturing, and design automation in heavy engineering, automobiles, tools and die, and consumer products.

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Research Topic: Evolutionary approach to function model synthesis

Amaninder has a Masters in Automotive Engineering from Clemson University (2017), a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University (2014), and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Punjabi University (2011). His research interests include design automation, function modeling, evaluation of design representations, and the use of evolutionary algorithms in the generation of design models.

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Research Topic: Formal representation of device states, state changes, and conjugate verbs to support causal and other reasoning in function-based design

Ahmed has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Florida Tech (2018). His research interests include formal representation and reasoning support for early-stage design, especially formal vocabularies and grammars for to model device states and state changes, and to support causal reasoning in function-based design.

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Research Topic: Dimensions of product similarity used to identify products as sources of analogy in design

Arnold earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Florida Tech (2018). His research interests include cognitive models of design, especially human perceptions of product similarity, and use of similarity dimensions in design-by-analogy.

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Research Topic: Generative computer-aided design of custom grippers for locating and immobilizing sheet metal parts for automotive applications

Jicmat earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Florida Tech (2019). His research interests include deep learning, especially applications in image processing, design automation, and knowledge-based systems in conventional and additive manufacturing processes.

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Thesis: A Feature-Based Approach to Function Modeling and Reasoning for Thermal-Fluid Systems Engineering

Graduated: 2020

Currently: Project Engineer at DEMACO, Melbourne, FL (as of 2020)

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Dissertation: Semantic and Qualitative Physics-Based Formal Reasoning for Functional Decomposition in Mechanical Design

Graduated: 2019

Currently: Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at Nanjing University of Science and Technology (as of 2020)

Thesis: Empirical Study of In-Plane Shrinkage and Bulging of Circular Cylinders Fabricated with the Fused Deposition Modeling Additive Manufacturing Method

Graduated: 2016

Currently: Application / Design Engineer at Bansbach Easylift Inc., Melbourne, FL (as of 2020)

Thesis: An Empirical Examination of Cognitive Chunking and Information Generation in Freehand Sketches during Design Ideation

Graduated: 2016

Currently: Prototype Build Engineer, Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), Detroit, MI (as of 2020)

Research Area: Human-subject studies, encoding and analysis of qualitative data, cognitive chunking

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Currently: MBA student at University of Central Florida (as of 2020)