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James R. Rinderle
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Program Director
Education:
- B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976
- M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
Research Interests:
Conceptual and configurational design are
focuses of Professor Rinderle's current research. Approaches and
methods which facilitate rational engineering selection among
configurations and the systematic reticulation and generation
of alternatives are central themes which couple a variety of approaches
and application areas. Methods are being developed which enable
functional and economic consequences of engineering physics to
be explicated early in the design process. The methods include
algebraic reasoning with constraints, design abstraction via transformation
and sub-structure identification, formal grammatical approaches
to design configuration generation, and design reasoning based
on the causal structure of devices. Specific techniques based
on these general methods are being integrated with existing CAD
tools. They are being used in a variety of engineering applications
ranging from the design of complex electromechanical assemblies
to the selection of molded product configurations.
Research Labs:
Research Sponsors:
- ARPA (Advanced Research Project Agency), DOD
- National Science Foundation
Selected Publications:
- M.D. Goodrich and J.R. Rinderle, "An Objective Approach
to Design Configuration Selection," Proceedings of the
ASME Design Theory and Methodology Conference, Sacramento, CA.
, September, 1997.
- J.R. Rinderle, "Using Attribute Grammars to Bridge Conceptual
and Parametric Design," Fourth International Conference
on Artificial Intelligence in Design, Grammatical Design Workshop,
June 1996.
- J.R. Rinderle, "Grammatical Approaches to Engineering
Design, Part II: Melding Configuration and Parametric Design
Using Attribute Grammars," Research in Engineering Design,
Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 137-146, 1990.
- S.P. Hoover and J.R. Rinderle, "Abstractions, Design
Views and Focusing," Proceedings of the Sixth ASME Design
Theory and Methodology Conference, Minneapolis, September, 1994
(Also accepted for publication in Journal of Mechanical Design).
Thesis Topics:
- Evaluation of Molded Product Configurations Models and Abstractions
in Mechanical Design
- An Objective Approach to Design Configuration Selection
- An Attribute Grammar Approach to the Design of Extruded Sections
- A Transformational Approach to Mechanical Design Using a Bond
Graph Grammar Interval Based Approaches to Design Refinement
- Abstractions, Design Views and Focusing
- Identifying Reformulations of Mechanical Parametric Design
Constraints
- Automated Bond Graph Modeling and Simplification to Support
Design
Contact Information:
- Office:
- ELAB 207C
- Mail:
- James Rinderle
- MIE Department
- 220 ELAB
- University of Massachusetts
- Amherst, MA 01003
- Phone:
- (413) 545-5901
- Fax:
- (413) 545-1027
- E-mail:
- rinderle@ecs.umass.edu
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