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Machine Design, Computer Aided Design

At OSU since 1984.
Office: Rogers 212
Telephone: 737-2336
E-mail ullman@engr.orst.edu

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Experience

Professor (Associate Professor, September, 1984 to 1992, tenured September, 1988, Full Professor, 1992)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
Responsible for graduate and undergraduate courses in Mechanical Design and Computer Aided Design. Established Design Process Research Group funded by NSF, Shclumberger, Tektronix, SDRC and Hewlett Packard. Additional research in mechanical power transmission and energy storage. Responsible for the funding and development of the School of Engineering's Computer Aided Design (CAD) Facility. Responsible for bringing industrial design problems into the classroom as a major teaching tool. Sabbatical leave 9/91-8/92 at the University of Twente, the Netherlands; University of Trondheim, Norway; and Cambridge University, U.K.

Vice President and Technical Director, Chairman (January, 1992; President, January, 1992 - December, 1994)

BikeE Corporation, Corvallis, Oregon.
Founder and first president of bicycle manufacturing company. Developed products, financing and business plan. Sales in 1994 of $500K with seven employees. Recruited new president and CEO in 1994. Continued involvement in new product development and board direction.

Manager of Engineering Design (June, 1982 - January, 1984)

Oxygen Enrichment Company, Schenectady, New York.

Visiting Associate Professor (July, 1981 - June, 1982)

Center for Interactive Computer Graphics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

Assistant Professor (September, 1977 - June, 1981), Adjunct Professor (June, 1981 - June, 1984)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Union College, Schenectady, New York.

Systems Analyst (June, 1973 - September, 1977, part-time after September, 1974)

Battelle-Columbus Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio.

Professional Activities

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Fellow, 1993

Design Theory and Methodology Technical Committee of the Design Division

Organizer, 1987
Chairman, 1987-1990

Editorial Boards

The International Journal for Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, U.K.

Journal of Engineering Design, U.K.

Research in Design Engineering, U.S.

Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design and Manufacturing, U.S.

Design Studies, U.K.

Patents

Securement System for a Rollable Mobility Aid, Patent No. 5,344,265, Ullman, D.G., Hunter-Zaworski, K., Herling, D., Clark, G., Zaworski, J., September, 1994, Assignee Oregon State University.

Publications

Books

Ullman, D.G., The Mechanical Design Process , McGraw-Hill, NY, 1992.

Carter, D.E. and Baker, B.S., Concurrent Engineering: The Product Development Environment for the 1990s, Mentor Graphics, 1991. (Contributed to Chapter 2 and total organization of the book.)

Ullman, D.G., Mechanical Design Failure Analysis, Marcel Dekker, Inc., NY, September, 1986.

Refereed Journals or Papers

Ullman D.G. and B. D'Ambrosio, "A Taxonomy for Engineering Decision Support Systems", Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design and Manufacture, AI EDAM, #9, pp 427-438, 1995.

Ullman D.G. and B. D'Ambrosio, "A Taxonomy for Classifying Engineering Decision Problems and Support Systems", ASME 1995 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Vol 2, 1995, pp 627-637.

Herling, D., Ullman, D.G., and B. D'Ambrosio, "Engineering Decision Support System (EDSS)", ASME 1995 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Vol 2, 1995, pp 619-626.

Ullman, D.G. and R. Paasch, "Issues Critical to the Development of Design History, Design Rationale and Design Intent Systems", ASME Design Theory and Methodology Conference, DTM94, Minneapolis, September, 1994, pp 249-258.

Nagy, R.L., D.G. Ullman, "A Data Representation for Collaborative Mechanical Design," Research in Engineering Design, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1992, pp. 233-242.

McGinnis, B., D.G. Ullman, "The Evolution of Commitments in the Design of a Component," Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 144, March, 1992, pp. 1-7.

Ullman, D.G., "A Taxonomy for the Mechanical Design Process," Research in Engineering Design, Vol. 3, 1992, pp. 179-189.

Stauffer, L.A., D.G. Ullman, "Fundamental Processes of Mechanical Designers Based on Empirical Data," Journal of Engineering Design, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1991, pp. 113-126.

Kuffner, T., D.G. Ullman, "The Information Requests of Mechanical Design Engineers," Design Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, January, 1991, pp. 42-50.

Hwang, T.S., D.G. Ullman, "The Design Capture System: Capturing Back-of-the-Envelope Sketches," Journal of Engineering Design, Vol. 1, No. 4, 1990, pp. 339-353.

Ullman D.G., S. Wood, D. Craig, "The Importance of Drawing in the Mechanical Design Process," Computers and Graphics, Special Issue on Features and Geometric Reasoning, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1990, pp. 263-274.

Ullman D.G., T.G. Dietterich, L. Stauffer, "A Model of the Mechanical Design Process Based on Empirical Data," Academic Press, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design and Manufacturing, 2(1), 1988, pp. 33-52.

Stauffer, L., D.G. Ullman, "A Comparison of the Results of Empirical Studies into the Mechanical Design Process," Design Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, Butterworths Ltd., April, 1988.

Ullman, D.G., T.G. Dietterich, "Toward Expert CAD," ASME, Computers in Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 3, Nov.-Dec. 1987, pp. 56-70.