August 28, 2024 – Last month, the BID4R Lab had the opportunity to attend and present at the 2024 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC-CIE) in Washington, DC. The conference, held from August 25–28, 2024, featured networking events, workshops, the CIE Student Hackathon
competition, and over 500 technical presentations across 11 tracks.
Rogelio and Jessica participated in the ASME 2024 Student Hackathon – Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Mechanical Engineering, which was held virtually from August 16-24 and in-person on August 25. They worked on 2 problem sets provided by NIST and UES AFRL. Although they did not win the competition, both enjoyed working on the project and learned various methods of image processing.
Jessica presented her work on a new optimization approach with limited agent knowledge inspired by sandpiper food searching behavior in comparison with other well-known algorithm called the Firefly Algorithm. Besides that, Rogelio also presented his work on his simulation study exploring the transition from private to public transportation. He got multiple questions and had a nice discussion which was eventually stopped due to time constraints.
Moreover, Dr. Bryan Watson and Dr. Alexander Murphy from Florida Polytechnic University co-host the DTM Special Session 3, “Opportunities at the Boundaries between Systems Engineering and Design Theory,” featuring insightful contributions from Dr. Astrid Layton – Assistant Professor at Texas A&M, Diarny Fernandes – Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and Matthew Mueller – Manager of Education Innovation at PTC.
Papers or posters presented in the IDETC-CIE 2024 are the following:
- Sandpiper Food Search Algorithm: A New Optimization Algorithm with Limited Knowledge – Jessica Christa Wira Hadipoernomo, Dr. Bryan Watson
- Barriers to Sustainable System Evolution: A Simulation Study Exploring the Transition From Private to Public Transportation – Rogelio Gracia Otalvaro, Dr. Bryan Watson
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