About this journal

The Journal of Engineering Design is a leading international publication for dissemination of research across all areas of engineering design, focusing on design of engineered products and systems, as well as product realisation processes and fulfillment systems related to engineering disciplines such as industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, production engineering, operations engineering, service engineering, systems engineering, and engineering management.

The Journal publishes pioneering research and best practices on the principles of design, as well as design management, techniques and methodologies, rather than specific domain applications. Papers can be focused on fundamental research leading to new methods or adaptation and synthesis of existing methods for new problem formulations.

Submissions can take the form of original research contributions, technical notes or perspectives/editorials from all areas of engineering design. The journal also publishes state-of-the-art review and positioning papers. All articles are reviewed by independent expert referees.

We welcome papers that examine diverse topics within the scope of the journal, including, but not limited to:

• Design theory and methodology, including foundations of design theory; design rationale; creativity and innovation in engineering; marketing-engineering interface; design synthesis; design cognition; models of design processes; design ideation; product cost and design economics; product families, platforms and reuse in engineering; configuration design; as well as resilience, reliability and robustness in engineering design.
• Design automation and computational support, including knowledge and information management in engineering; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; design representation and languages; semantics in design of products, services and processes; generative design; feature-based design; shape grammars; product data management; virtual prototyping; cyber physical system prototyping; digital thread and digital twins; extended reality (XR); geometric design; engineering informatics; data-driven and data-informed design; machine learning and artificial intelligence in design; symbolic computing for design; simulation-based design; design decision support systems; augmented intelligence and design; integrated intelligent design environments; and big data analytics for design.
• Design optimisation and decision science, including design evaluation; engineering optimisation; multi-disciplinary optimisation; multi-attribute decision making; design decisions under uncertainty; reliability-based design; shape and topology optimisation; decision-based design; preference modeling; design for market systems; and behavioral economics in design.
• Design of product realisation systems with focus on planning, optimisation, control and management of processes, fulfillment and systems, including systems design and design complexity; integrated engineering design development; manufacturing systems design; design for changeable and reconfigurable production systems; supply chain design; design for logistics; operations engineering design; service delivery system design; integrated product and process development; global and distributed engineering design; and multi/inter/trans-disciplinary engineering design.
• Human frontiers in design, including engineering design aesthetics, style and form; emotive design and Kansei engineering; inclusive design and universal design; industrial design engineering and total design; user experience design; integration of customers in product/process design; user-centered design; behavioral design and smart nudging; multi-modal perception and psychology in design; ambience intelligence for human factors design; future of work at the human-technology frontier; workplace design; design collaboration and teamwork; creative behavior; design culture; and the design process of ergonomics.
• Design for product lifecycle and sustainability, including DFX (manufacturability, assembly, production, quality, maintenance, remanufacture, recycling, reuse, end-of-life); design for additive manufacturing; design for prognostic health management; sustainable/green/ecofriendly design; design considering carbon emissions and energy consumption; and design for circular economy.
• Design management and systems engineering, including collaborative design in engineering; design project planning and workflow management; requirement engineering; new product development and introduction process; product quality management and improvement; product lifecycle management; evolutionary design activities in engineering; model-based systems engineering; risk management; system of systems; as well as best practice and empirical studies.
• New and emerging engineering design trends, including smart and connected products; product-service systems; innovation design, product ecosystem design; inverse problem solving in design; design for digital transformation; design as strategic engineering; design and operation of human-cyber-physical systems (e.g., smart mobility or smart factories); design with smart sensing and AI technologies; design in Industry 4.0 and 5.0; product servitisation and XaaS (anything-as-a-service); design in the metaverse and Web3; platformisation for the sharing economy; open innovation and co-creation; crowdsourcing design; as well as digitalization and product development cycle.
• Design education, including design education and pedagogy in engineering; design thinking and design doing; complex sociotechnical systems; public policy design; design engineering epistemologies; design learning mechanisms and learning systems; design ethics; design diversity, equity and inclusivity; as well as design education assessment methods, instruments, and metrics.
• Design research methodology, including qualitative, quantitative, observational, participative and retrospective methods for investigating; verification and validation; and evaluating design processes, methods and tools, at the strategic as well as tactical levels.

All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous double anonymized peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees. Submissions can take the form of quality original research contributions as well as book reviews from all the major disciplines of engineering design.

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Editor-in-Chief:

Roger Jiao – Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Managing Editors:

Johan Malmqvist – Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Jianxi Luo – Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.

Senior Editors:

Jonathan Cagan - Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Jingshan Li – Tsinghua University, China

Ying Liu – Cardiff University, UK

Soh Khim Ong – National University of Singapore, Singapore

Timothy Simpson – Pennsylvania State University, USA

Joshua Summers – University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Amy J.C. Trappey – National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Bernard Yannou – Centrale Supelec, France

Chris Zhang – University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Associate Editors:

Shikui Chen - State University of New York at Stonybrook, USA

Chih-Hsing Chu - National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Scott Ferguson - North Carolina State University, USA

Petri Helo - University of Vaasa, Finland

Katja Hölttä-Otto - University of Melbourne, Australia

Ajay Joneja - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Carman K.M. Lee - Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Seung Ki Moon - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Antonella Petrillo - University of Naples Parthenope, Italy

Jitesh Panchal - Purdue University, USA

Charlie C. L. Wang - University of Manchester, UK

Chengen Wang - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Changxu Wu - Tsinghua University, China

Ali Yassine - Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Chunyang Yu - China Academy of Art, China

Yong Zeng - Concordia University, Canada

Linda L. Zhang - IESEG School of Management, France

Feng Zhou - University of Michigan at Dearborn, USA

Advisory Board:

Alain Bernard - Ecole Cent Nantes, France

Luciënne T.M. Blessing - Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

John Clarkson - University of Cambridge, UK

Hoda ElMaraghy - University of Windsor, Canada

Peihua Gu - Tianjin University, China

Imre Horvath - Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

George Huang - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Andrew Kusiak - University of Iowa, USA

Stephen C.-Y. Lu - University of Southern California, USA

Dimitris Mourtzis - University of Patras, Greece

Andrew Nee - National University of Singapore, Singapore

Panos Papalambros - University of Michigan, USA

Frank Piller - RWTH Aachen University, Germany

David Rosen - Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore

Tetsuo Tomiyama - International Professional University of Technology in Tokyo, Japan

Kristin Wood - University of Colorado Denver, USA

Book Editor:

Chris McMahon - University of Bristol, UK

Editorial Board:

Nabil Anwer - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Sacla, France

Anton Basson - University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Julian Booker - University of Bristol, UK

Monica Bordegoni - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Rafael A. Calvo - Imperial College London, UK

Gaetano Cascini - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Amaresh Chakrabarti - Indian Institute of Science, India

Chun-Hsien Chen - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Hae-Jin Choi - Chung-Ang University, Korea

Shuo-Yan Chou - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Nathan Crilly - University of Cambridge, UK

Ming Dong - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Claudia Eckert - Open University, UK

Boris Eisenbart - Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Benoit Eynard - Universite de Technologie Compiegne, France

Georgi Georgiev - University of Oulu, Finland

Kilian Gericke - University of Rostock, Germany

Wei Guo - Tianjin University, China

Xin Guo - Sichuan University, China

Liang Hou - Xiamen University, China

Sean Hanna - University College London, UK

Zhen Hu - University of Michigan at Dearborn, USA

Yangjian Ji - Zhejiang University, China

Pingyu Jiang - Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Tero Juuti - Tampere University, Finland

Kyoung-yun Joseph Kim - Wayne State University, USA

Michael Kokkolaras - McGill University, Canada

Mattias Kreimeyer - University of Stuttgart, Germany

Tobias Larsson - Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Ang Liu - University of New South Wales, Australia

Xin Lin - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Jiyin Liu - Loughborough University, UK

Yuqian Lu - University of Auckland, New Zealand

Xinggang Luo - Hongzhou Dianzi University, China

Anja Maier - University of Strathclyde, UK

Alison McKay, University of Leeds, UK

Chris McMahon - University of Bristol, UK

Beshoy Morkos - University of Georgia, USA

Giovanni Moroni - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Niels Henrik Mortensen - Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Yohanes Kristianto Nugroho - University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Nikolaos Papakostas - University College Dublin, Ireland

Hyungwook Park - Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Jean-Francois Petiot - Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France

Daniella Pigosso - Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Yoram Reich - Tel Aviv University, Israel

Dirk Schaefer - University of Lincoln, UK

Shana Smith - National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Martin Steinert - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Mario Storga - University of Zagreb, Croatia

Ashutosh Tiwari - University of Sheffield, UK

Zuoxu Wang - Beihang University, China

Kelvin KL Wong - University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Honorary Editors-in-Chief:

Derek Sheldon – Anglia Ruskin University, UK (Founding Editor, 1990-2006)
Alex Duffy – University of Strathclyde, UK (2006-2022)

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

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