Dr. Layton is a guest editor for an upcoming special issue on sustainability in design and manufacturing being published jointly between ASME’s journals of Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Science and Engineering. Drafts are due July 31, 2023.

This special issue is a joint effort between the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) and the Design Engineering Division (DED) as part of a collaboration to advance design and manufacturing research in sustainability. As the need grows for methodologies and tools capable of supporting sustainable systems, this collection welcomes new scientific approaches, data-driven techniques, informatics solutions, and case studies at the intersection of sustainability, design, and manufacturing. The call focuses on the main challenges the design and manufacturing communities face regarding sustainability and seeks to identify emerging research trends as well as current industry practices for integrating sustainability principles into the design and implementation of engineered systems and processes. Recent advances and future directions along the design-manufacturing continuum are welcome, including submissions on topics such as design decisions, manufacturing process development, manufacturing systems optimization, supply chain integration, sustainable energy systems, product user interaction, and product end-of-life analysis.

Topic Areas

• Circular Economy and Industry 5.0
• Artificial intelligence for sustainable design and manufacturing
• Sustainability analytics
• Sustainable additive manufacturing and additive remanufacturing
• Design for recycling, remanufacturing, and reuse
• CAD integration of sustainable design methods and techniques
• Sustainable energy systems
• Industrial ecology in design, manufacturing, and automation
• Environmental justice in design and eco-design approaches
• Human-centric design and manufacturing
• Remanufacturing and advanced recycling processes for critical materials
• System efficiency and Decarbonization