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NMIS Internship: The Human-Machine Partnership: AI for Sustainable Engineering Processes

Brisco, Ross (Principal Investigator) McLaughlin, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Johnson, Isaac (Researcher)

An affordance is a design intention that guides user behaviour. It allows a designer to understand how to interact with an object or system. In the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and engineering design, AI affords a designer with greater data visualisations, design optimisations, predictive maintenance and smart products. Affordances bridge the gap between technical capabilities and practical user behaviour. By making AI technologies intuitive, transparent, and empowering, we can unlock their potential to drive a transition towards a circular economy, where resources are used efficiently, and waste is minimised.

As engineering designers begin to explore the potential of AI, they provide examples of appropriate and inappropriate use of AI throughout the design process. This project will work with established data sets, and company contacts in industry to build an understanding of the the state-of-the-art knowledge of engineering industry on the use of AI. Through the lens of sustainable engineering practices, which themselves have a vast dataset of standards and requirements, the Intern will be challenged with simplifying the design for sustainability process using AI. This may come in the form of guidance, or a prototype tool to demonstrate the possibilities.

02-Jan-2025 - 22-Jan-2025

DIGF-DIRF-06936

McLaughlin, Graeme (Principal Investigator)

07-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2025

DIGF-DIRF-05923

Ingram, Rory (Principal Investigator) Lynch, Robert (Co-investigator) McLaughlin, Graeme (Co-investigator) Sims, Ryan (Co-investigator)

09-Jan-2022 - 05-Jan-2022

DIGF_DIRF_05705

McLaughlin, Graeme (Principal Investigator)

29-Jan-2021 - 15-Jan-2022

DIGF_DIRF_05728

McLaughlin, Graeme (Principal Investigator)

13-Jan-2021 - 13-Jan-2021

AFRC_DIRF_1875

McLaughlin, Graeme (Principal Investigator)

15-Jan-2021 - 15-Jan-2021

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