Journal of Mechanical Design

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Welcome from the Editor-in-Chief

The ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) serves the broad design community as a venue for scholarly, archival research on all aspects of the engineering design activity.  JMD has traditionally served the ASME Design Engineering Division and its technical committees, but it welcomes contributions from all areas of design with an emphasis on design synthesis.

Register for Joint Webinar: Advances in Design and Manufacturing for Sustainability

The Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) and the Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering (JMSE) invite you to attend a free webinar based on their February 2024 Joint Special Issues: Advances in Design and Manufacturing for Sustainability on April 2, 2024. Advance registration is required.

2023 Reviewer Awards & Recognition

The Editor and Editorial Board of the Journal of Mechanical Design would like to thank all of the reviewers for volunteering their expertise and time reviewing manuscripts in 2023. Serving as reviewers for the journal is a critical service necessary to maintain the quality of our publication and to provide the authors with a valuable peer review of their work.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Design by Data: Cultivating Datasets for Engineering Design

This special issue provides a platform for papers that investigate data-driven methods for design, provide insightful discussions about the data used, and publicly release their dataset. It also encourages submissions to address critical challenges in engineering dataset creation, such as multi-modality, handling missing information, managing diverse data types, navigating dependencies among attributes, ensuring data quality, and integrating complex data structures and real-time data.

Special Issue: The Role of Design Artifacts in Design

This collection of articles explores emerging topics in traditional areas of design theory and methods research. The articles fall into three primary categories: (1) enhanced communication via design artifacts, (2) technology-enabled design artifacts, and (3) collaborative design platforms that enable collective creation.
This special issue is a joint effort between the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) and the Design Engineering Division (DED) as part of a collaboration to advance design and manufacturing research in sustainability.

SPECIAL ISSUES Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS: Design by Data: Cultivating Datasets for Engineering Design

This special issue provides a platform for papers that investigate data-driven methods for design, provide insightful discussions about the data used, and publicly release their dataset. It also encourages submissions to address critical challenges in engineering dataset creation, such as multi-modality, handling missing information, managing diverse data types, navigating dependencies among attributes, ensuring data quality, and integrating complex data structures and real-time data.

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WEBINARS

The Journal of Mechanical Design Webinar Series is a series of webinars organized quarterly to feature interesting research work being published in the Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD). 

Webinar 1

DATA-DRIVEN APPROACHES FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN


Webinar 4

ROBOT DESIGN


Webinar 7

INTEGRATED DESIGN AND OPERATION OF ENGINEERING SYSTEMS WITH PREDICTIVE MODELING


Webinar 10

TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION


Webinar 2

TEAM SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING DESIGN


Webinar 5

DESIGN ENGINEERING IN THE AGE OF INDUSTRY 4.0


Webinar 8

CO-DESIGN OF ROBOTIC SYSTEMS


Webinar 3

DESIGN FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING


Webinar 6

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN ENGINEERING DESIGN


Webinar 9

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND METHODS FOR EARLY-STAGE PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

DIVERSITY EQUITY & INCLUSION (DEI)

The editorial board of the Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) endorses the commitment of ASME to support diversity and to create and ensure inclusive and ethical practices for publishing as well as the science and engineering professions.  Over the past few years, JMD has continuously expanded the geographic and gender diversity of its editorial board, with close to 30% of its editorial board being women or from underrepresented groups. JMD has championed and implemented the double-blind review option to promote objectivity in the review process and reduce bias based on the authors’ country, gender, and seniority. In addition, JMD has reached out to underrepresented groups, young researchers, and women to feature as JMD webinar organizers and speakers. For suggestions  to further improve  the journal’s DEI practices, please contact  JMD’s DEI advocate, Scott Ferguson at smfergu2@ncsu.edu.

ABOUT JMD

 ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD)

 Publishing Frequency: Monthly

 2022 Impact Factor: 3.300

2022 Five-Year Impact Factor: 3.800

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 Representative Topics

  • Design automation, including design representation, virtual reality, geometric design, design evaluation, design optimization, data-driven design, artificial intelligence in design, simulation-based design under uncertainty, design of complex systems, design of engineered materials systems, shape and topology optimization, engineering for global development, ergonomic and aesthetic considerations, and design for market systems;
  • Design of direct contact systems, including cams, gears and power transmission systems;
  • Design education;
  • Design of energy, fluid, and power handling systems;
  • Design innovation and devices, including design of smart products and materials;
  • Design for manufacturing and the life cycle, including design for the environment, DFX, and sustainable design;
  • Design of mechanisms and robotic systems, including design of macro-, micro- and nano-scaled mechanical systems, machine component, and machine system design;
  • Design theory and methodology, including creativity in design, decision analysis, preference modeling, user-centered design, design cognition, entrepreneurship and teams in design, design prototyping, and design synthesis.