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| PROJECT TITLE | GRAND CHALLENGE (GC) | DESIGN RESEARCH THRUST (DRT) | PI, CO-PI & TEAM MEMBERS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active Flow Separation Control | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Experimental Design | PI: Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado (SUTD), Kenneth Tracy (SUTD), Christine Yogiaman (SUTD) |
| A Hybrid Magnetic Field Model for Axisymmetric Magnets | – | Experimental Design | PI: Dan Frey (MIT) Team Members: Foong Shaohui (SUTD), Faye Wu (SUTD) |
| A Pilot Project for Developing Smart Energy Management System Prototype | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Visualisation and Prototyping | PI: Yuen Chau (SUTD), Wayes Tushar (SUTD) |
| A Symphony of Designiettes: Exploring the Boundaries of Design Thinking in Engineering Education | – | Experimental Design | PI: Dan Frey (MIT) Team Members: Kristin Wood (SUTD), R. E. Mohan (SUTD), Sawako Kaijima (SUTD), Stylianos Dritsas (SUTD), S. Moreno (SUTD), Pey Kin Leong (SUTD) |
| Algorithm for Design of Compliant Mechanisms | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Design Computation | PI: Foong Shaohui (SUTD) co-PI: Tan U-Xuan (SUTD), Sun Defeng (NUS) Team Members: Soh Gim Song (SUTD) |
| Applying Social Science Methods to Analyze the Impact of Input Data on the Design Outcomes from Student Designers |
Design with the Developing World | Fostering Creativity | PI: Arlindo Silva (SUTD) co-PI: Nilanjan Raghunath (SUTD), Christine Yogiaman (SUTD), Matt McCambridge (MIT) Team Members: Marco Leite (University of Lisbon), Lillian Ng-Thamrin (Thales Solutions Asia) |
| Artificial Design: Design Decoder for Mapping the Genealogy of Design Ideas | Sustainable Built Environment | Design Computation | PI: Carlos Bañón (SUTD) co-PI: Felix Raspall (SUTD), Erwin Viray (SUTD) Team Members: Immanuel Koh (SUTD), Jeffrey Huang (EPFL), Paul Keel (MIT CSAIL), Luo Jianxi (SUTD) |
| Autonomous Nano Stepping Tool | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | – | PI: Ian Hunter (MIT) Team Member: Lynette Jones (MIT) |
| Consumer-Centric Energy Management for Buildings: Design Innovation Technique for Sustainability | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living, Sustainable Built Environment
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Visualisation and Prototyping, Fostering Creativity |
PI: Yuen Chau (SUTD) Co-PI: Wayes Tushar / (IDC; SUTD), Sumbul Khan (IDC; SUTD), Ryan Arlitt (IDC; SUTD) Team Members: Li Wen-Tai Li (SUTD), Benny Ng Kai Kiat (SUTD), Sanjana K. Viswanath (SUTD) |
| Code Like A PRO (CLAP) | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Design Computation | PI: Alexander Binder (SUTD) co-PI: Lu Wei (SUTD), Oka Kurniawan (SUTD), Mohan Rajesh Elara (SUTD) Team Member: Liu Junhua (SUTD), Sunardi (SUTD) |
| Cooking Fuels | Design with the Developing World | – | PI: J. Kim Vandiver (MIT), Jean Yong (SUTD) Team Member: Amy Banzaert (MIT) |
| Conceptual Design for Software and Other Complex Systems | – | – | PI: Daniel Jackson (MIT) |
| Collective Decision Making for the Design of New Products and Services | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Fostering Creativity | PI: Bige Tunçer (SUTD) co-PI: Niyazi Taneri, Arnoud De Meyer (SMU) Team Member: Ozge Tuncel (SUTD) |
| Covered Walkway Design for Improved Thermal Comfort | Sustainable Built Environment | Design Computation | PI: Bige Tuncer (SUTD) Co-PI: Alexander Binder (SUTD) Team Members: Ramanathan Subramanian (SUTD) |
| Crowd Sourced Water Quality Diagnostics | Design with the Developing World | – | PI: J. Kim Vandiver (MIT) Team Members: Jose Gomez-Marquez (MIT), Anna Young (MIT) |
| Defense Science and Technology (DSTA) | – | Decision Making | PI: Richard DeNeufville (MIT) Team Members: Dr. Donna Rhodes (MIT), Dr. Adam Ross (MIT) |
| Design – Build – Fly: A Competitive, Immersive Design Experience with Drones! | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Fostering Creativity | PI: Foong Shaohui (SUTD) |
| Design and Evaluation of an MRI Coil-Mounted Multi-Probe Robotic Positioner | – | Experimental Design | PI: Dan Frey (MIT) Team Members: Faye Wu (SUTD), Meysam Torabi (MIT), Atsushi Yamada (MIT), Alex Golden (MIT), M. Wehner (MIT), Gregory S. Fischer (MIT), Kemal Tuncali (MIT), Conor J. Walsh (MIT) |
| Design Education in the Developing World | Design with the Developing World | – | PI: J. Kim Vandiver (MIT), Jean Yong (SUTD) Team Member: Mark Jeunnette (MIT) |
| Design and Development of a Portable Utilitarian Vehicle | Sustainable Built Environment | Design Computation, Visualisation and Prototyping | PI: Soh Gim Song (SUTD) Team Members: Lee Jia Wen Jaron (FOM Innovation Pte Ltd.) Chen Yiliang Brandon (FOM Innovation Pte Ltd.) |
| Design and Development of Audio Source Localizing and Tracking Robot | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Design Computation, Visualisation and Prototyping | PI: Chen Jia Jia (SUTD) Co-PI: Mohan Rajesh Elara (SUTD) |
| Design as a Strategy for Sustainable Economic Growth | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | – | PI: Chris Magee (MIT) Team Member: Luo Jianxi (SUTD) |
| Design of a Low-Cost Autoclave for Developing World Health Clinics (Nepal Trials) | – | Experimental Design | PI: Dan Frey (MIT) Team Members: Greg Tao (MIT), Hallie Sue Cho (MIT), Amos G. Winter V (SUTD) |
| Design of Low Carbon Footprint Supply Chains | Sustainable Built Environment | Decision Making | PI: Niyazi Taneri (SUTD) co-PI: Saif Benjaafar (SUTD) Team Members: Karthik Natarajan (SUTD), Kristin Wood (SUTD), Lynette Cheah (A*Star & SUTD), Huang Shisheng (SUTD), David Simchi-Levi (MIT), Edgar Blanco (MIT), Feng Youyi (MIT) |
| Design of a Microfluidic Device and Method for Measurement of the Directed Cell Motility of White Blood Cells | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Experimental Design | PI: Roland Bouffanais (SUTD) co-PI: Ye Ai (SUTD) Team Members: Zhu Xiaoying (SUTD), Dick K.P. Yue (MIT) |
| Design of Spectrum Shaping Codes Based Reception Techniques for Dedicated Servo Recording Systems | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Fostering Creativity | PI: Cai Kui (SUTD), Zhao Rong (SUTD) |
| Design of the Last Mile Transportation System: What Does the Customer Really Want? | Sustainable Built Environment | Decision Making | PI: Karthik Natarajan (SUTD) Co-PI: Selin Damla Ahipasoglu (SUTD) Team Members: Ugur Arikan (SUTD), Anulekha Dhara (SUTD) |
| Design Under Uncertainty | – | Design Computation | PI: Karen Willcox (MIT), Tony Patera (MIT) Team Member: Ng See Kiong (SUTD) |
| Design Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Experimental Design | PI: Roland Bouffanais (SUTD) |
| Detecting Mistakes in Engineering Models: The Effects of Experimental Design | – | Experimental Design | PI: Dan Frey (MIT) Team Member: Troy Savoie (MIT) |
| Developing Human Capital for Development and Design: Innovations in Engineering and Design Education | – | Global Collaboration | PI: Susan Silbey (MIT) |
| Dimensional Analysis and Experimentation | – | Experimental Design | PI: Dan Frey (MIT) |
| Effective Policy for Engineering Education | – | Global Collaboration | PI: Susan Silbey (MIT), Yow Wei Quin (SUTD) |
| Efficiently Estimating Expectation Shift | Design with the Developing World | Experimental Design | PI: Dan Frey (MIT), Phillip Truscott (SUTD) |
| Electroencephalographic (EEG) Electrodes for Continuous Real-Time Cognitive Function Monitoring and Interventions | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Experimental Design | PI: Huang Shaoying (SUTD) Co-PI: Yu Wenwei (Chiba University), Low Hong Yee (SUTD), Tan Mei Chee (SUTD), Christine Yogiaman (SUTD) |
| Embodied Design Cognition | – | Visualisation and Prototyping | PI: Larry Sass (MIT) Team Member: Daniel Smithwick (MIT) |
| Empirical Evaluation of Procedures to Generate Flexibility in Engineering Systems and Improve Lifecycle Performance | – | Experimental Design | PI: Dan Frey (MIT) Team Members: Michel Cardin (MIT), Richard DeNeufville (MIT), Olivier de Weck (MIT) |
| Empowering Traditional Trades and Forging Sustainable Households with Smart Recycling Platform | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living, Sustainable Built Environment | Experimental Design | PI: Lyle Fearnley (SUTD) Co-PI: Corinne Ong (SUTD), Poon King Wang (SUTD) Team Members: Andy Zheng Cheng (SUTD) |
| Energy Efficient Compliant Actuator Designs | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Design Computation | PI: David Braun (SUTD) co-PI: Soh Gim Song (SUTD), Neville Hogan (MIT) |
| Evaluation of Net-Zero Energy Residential Buildings in Singapore | Sustainable Built Environment | Design Computation | PI: Yuen Chau (SUTD) Team Members: Lan Lan (SUTD) |
| Field Fab-Labs | – | Visualisation and Prototyping | PI: Dan Frey (MIT) Team Member: Daniel Smithwick (MIT) |
| Hygroscopic Assembly | Sustainable Built Environment | Design Computation, Visualisation and Prototyping, Fostering Creativity | PI: Kenneth Joseph Tracy (SUTD) Co-PIs: Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado (SUTD), Javier Gomez Fernandez (SUTD) |
| Improving Cognition of the Elderly by Design | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Fostering Creativity, Global Collaboration | PI: Yow Wei Quin (SUTD) co-PI: Lucienne Blessing (SUTD), Suranga Nanayakkara (SUTD) Team Member: Hyowon Lee (SUTD) |
| Incentive Mechanisms for Patient Routing to Control Crowding in Emergency Departments | Sustainable Built Environment | Decision Making | PI: Shrutivandana Sharma (SUTD) co-PI: Costas Courcoubetis (SUTD), Bikramjit Das (SUTD), Yow Wei Quin (SUTD), Tiah Ling (CGH), Chow Wai Leng (Eastern Health Alliance), Oh Hong Choon (Eastern Health Alliance) Team Members: Tin Aung Soe (Eastern Health Alliance), Reuben Ng (Yale University) |
| InnoGPS: A Data-Driven System for Design Opportunity Conception | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Design Computation, Visualisation and Prototyping, Fostering Creativity, Decision Making | PI: Luo Jianxi (SUTD) Co-PI: Subburaj Karupppasamy (SUTD) Team Members: Yan Bowen (SUTD), Srinivasan Venkataraman (SUTD), Jeffrey Alstott (SUTD-MIT), Song Binyang (SUTD), He Yuejun (SUTD), Cartus Guo (SUTD), Manuj Dhariwal (SUTD-MIT), Isabell Essien (SUTD-MIT) |
| International Design Center | – | Experimental Design | PI: Dan Frey (MIT) co-PI: Christopher Magee (MIT) Team Member: Pey Kin Leong (SUTD) |
| Leveraged Freedom Chair Indian Trial | – | Experimental Design | PI: Dan Frey (MIT) Team Member: Amos G. Winter V (MIT) |
| Making Sense: Intersecting Lines of Investigation in Design and Technology | Sustainable Built Environment | Experimental Design | PI: Thomas Schroepfer (SUTD), Suranga Nanayakkara (SUTD) |
| Matrix Product States and Machine Learning | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Design Computation | PI: Dario Poletti (SUTD) Co-PI: Lu Wei (SUTD) |
| Measurement Instrumentation Control Analysis (MICA) | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | – | PI: Ian Hunter (MIT) Team Member: Lynette Jones (MIT) |
| MEMS Energy Harvesting Video |
ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Fostering Creativity | PI: Kim Sang-Gook (MIT) |
| MPULSE: Urban Biosensor Kiosks | Design with the Developing World | – | PI: J. Kim Vandiver (MIT) Team Members: Jose Gomez-Marquez (MIT), Anna Young (MIT), Skylar Tibbits (MIT) |
| Multi Modal Design | – | Visualisation and Prototyping | PI: Larry Sass (MIT) Team Member: Daniel Smithwick (MIT) |
| New Spatial Audio Processing Algorithm for Audio Sources Isolation and Localization |
ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Visualisation and Prototyping | PI: Chen Jia Jia (SUTD) |
| Noise-based Prognostic Design for Real-Time Degradation Analysis of Nanodevice Dielectric Breakdown | – | Experimental Design | PI: Dan Frey (MIT) Team Member: Naga Nagarajan (SUTD), Pey Kin Leong (SUTD) |
| Optimisation Tools for Generative Methods in Architecture and Sustainable Design | Sustainable Built Environment | Design Computation | PI: Giacomo Nannicini (SUTD), Thomas Schroepfer (SUTD) |
| Passive Soft-Robots for Long-Term Marine Pollution Studies | ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living | Experimental Design | PI: Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado (SUTD) |
| Predicting Mechanical Behaviour of Composites with Long Natural Fibers |
Design with the Developing World | Experimental Design | PI: Arlindo Silva (SUTD) |
| Prototyping Concrete Sandwich Shells: A New Efficient Structural Typology Relying on Digital Design and Prefabrication | Sustainable Built Environment | Design Computation, Experimental Design | PI: Thomas Schroepfer (SUTD) Team Members: Aloysius Lian (SUTD) John Naylor (SUTD) |
| Research Equipment and Instrumentation for Digital Design and Manufacturing Initiative | – | – | PI: Martin L. Dunn (SUTD) |
| Robotic Arm | – | – | PI: Mark Goulthorpe (MIT) Team Members: Sawako Kaijima (SUTD), Stylianos Dritsas (SUTD) |
| Securing Cyber‐Physical Systems by Design [iTrust SCy‐Phy Systems Week 2017] | Design with the Developing World | Fostering Creativity | |
| Taking Designettes to the Next Level: Aerial Craft Design Workshop | Sustainable Built Environment | Experimental Design, Fostering Creativity, Global Collaboration | PI: Foong Shaohui (SUTD) |
| Technology Evaluation | Design with the Developing World | – | PI: J. Kim Vandiver (MIT) |
| Testbeds for Research in the Design of Secure Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) | – | – | PI: Aditya Mathur (SUTD) |
| The Charcoal Project | Design with the Developing World | – | PI: J. Kim Vandiver (MIT) co-PI: Amy Banzaert (MIT) |
| The Influence of Immersion and Presence in Early Stage Engineering Designing and Building | – | Experimental Design | PI: Dan Frey (MIT) Team Members: Daniela Faas (MIT), Qifang Bao (MIT), Maria C. Yang (MIT) |
| The Wheelchair Project | Design with the Developing World | – | PI: J. Kim Vandiver (MIT) Team Members: Amos G. Winter V (MIT), Mario Bollini (MIT) |
| Three-dimensional hierarchical NiCo2O4 Nanostructures for Flexible Asymmetric Supercapacitor |
Design with the Developing World | Experimental Design | PI: Yang Hui Ying (SUTD) |
| Towards a “Science” of Software Design | Design with the Developing World | Experimental Design | PI: Sun Jun (SUTD) |
| Uncertainty in Design for Environment | Sustainable Built Environment | Decision Making | PI: Lynette Cheah Wan Ting (SUTD) co-PI: Karen Willcox (MIT) Team Member: Cassandra Telenko (SUTD-MIT) |
| Urban Design in the Midst of Biodiversity Crisis: Visualisation and Biormorphic Formations | – | Global Collaboration | PI: Michael Fischer (MIT) |
| Water Resources | – | Decision Making | PI: Richard DeNeufville (MIT) Team Member: Melanie Wong (MIT) |
| – | – | Fostering Creativity | PI: Maria C. Yang (MIT) Team Member: Anders Haeggman (MIT) |
| – | Sustainable Built Environment | – | PI: Lionel C. Kimerling (MIT) Team Member: Vivek K. Singh (MIT) |