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IDE has launched four new MOOC programmes centred around circularity on edX. The programmes include Sustainable Engineering Design,Sustainable Packaging, Sustainable Packaging, and Sustainable Design of Electronics. The team hopes that with the launch of these new programmes, people will gain a greater and more specialised knowledge on a range of topics related to sustainability and circularity.

IDE Assistant Professor Nazli Cila has received an honourable mention for her single-authored paper, ‘Designing Human-Agent Collaborations: Commitment, responsiveness, and support’, from the 2022 CHI papers committee. For this year conference, the CHI papers committee received 2,579 complete submissions. Of those 2,579, the committee accepted 638 papers following the revision and resubmission process. Of those accepted, a mere 5% of submissions received an honourable mention.

Imagine wanting to construct a personalised bike saddle, but the materials at your disposal are either too stiff for some parts of the buttocks or too soft for others… Creating a product that has different parts, each with unique requirements, often requires the use of different materials. But innovations in 3D printing are changing this by making it possible to create objects with spatial gradations in surface and volumetric properties – in other words, functionally graded materials (FGMs). These engineered metamaterials go beyond the characteristics found in naturally occurring materials. For his PhD, Tim Kuipers explored how toolpath generation and a manufacturing technique called fused filament fabrication (FFF) can be used to create more complex objects with varying material properties.

Algorithms are all around you. They are in your office building within computer-regulated thermostats, they help pilots land the planes you fly in, they help robots manufacture the goods you use every day. But how do designers know which process to use or what information their devices need? And how do they get the many algorithms, which control these devices, to work together? In his Ph.D. research, Sirasak Tepjit set out to create a framework to help designers with exactly that.

To kick off this year’s Open Education Week, We Like Sharing organised a photo competition around the theme ‘IMAGining Energy transition’. The competition was open to staff, students, and alumni. All of the images submitted were then added to the We Like Sharing image bank, meaning they can be used by staff and students under a Creative Commons License. To find out the story behind IDE’s José Hekkens’ winning photo (as seen above), the We Like Sharing platform, and how you could win a mystery prize click here.