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Kiran Ghadge

Kiran Ghadge

Assistant Professor

About

Kiran is an Engineer tuned into Design and Innovation. His doctoral thesis focused on Knowledge Management for Innovation in Manufacturing R&D projects. He has a strong background in Design for sustainability, having co-developed and validated a tool that offers guided decision-making for design of sustainable products, services and manufacturing systems. He also played a key role in setting up the smart-factory research facility of IISc.

Kiran enjoys learning and teaching Design because it is more hands-on and favourable to creativity. His pedagogical approach draws from Kolb’s learning cycle and Bloom’s taxonomy, prioritising higher order thinking skills. As a continuous learner, he seeks to learn from his students as they learn from him.

Work aside, he is an avid trekker, with experience of over a hundred treks in the Western ghats, Himalayas, and abroad. Incidentally, he also contributes to citizen science on iNaturalist by clicking plants and insects.

The best designs are those that dissolve into behaviour. -Naoto Fukasawa

Shakuntala Acharya, Kiran Ghadge, B. S. C. Ranjan, Suman Devadula, and Amaresh Chakrabarti. “Evaluating the Effectiveness of InDeaTe Tool in Supporting Design for Sustainability”. In: AI EDAM 34.1 (Feb. 2020), pp. 45–54.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0890060419000337

Shakuntala Acharya, Tejaswini Chatty, B. S. C. Ranjan, Kiran Ghadge, Pabba Annu Bharath, and Amaresh Chakrabarti. “InDeaTe 3.0: An Ontology Based, Generic Design Process Guidance Web-tool”. In: DS 92: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference. International Design Conference. Vol. 15. DESIGN. Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2018, pp. 137–148.

Link: https://doi.org/10.21278/idc.2018.0456

Amaresh Chakrabarti, Shakuntala Acharya, B. S. C. Ranjan, Suman Devadula, Kiran Ghadge, N. Madhusudanan, Praveen Uchil, V. Srinivasan, Gaurav Ameta, and Sudarsan Rachuri. “InDeaTe—A Computer-Based Platform with a Systematic Design Template and a Database of Methods and Tools”. In: Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2. ICoRD 2017. International Conference on Research into Design. Ed. by Amaresh Chakrabarti and Debkumar Chakrabarti. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. Guwahati, India: Springer Singapore, 2017, pp. 277–289.

Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_24

Kiran Ghadge, Saritha Vishwanathan, Suman Devadula, Quinn Langfitt, Shuk Han Chan, Arvindbhai Patel, Gaurav Ameta, Anil Gupta, Sudarsan Rachuri, and Amaresh Chakrabarti. “Application of InDeaTe Design Tool for Designing Sustainable Products—Case Study of a Natural Water Cooler”. In: Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2. ICoRD 2017. International Conference on Research into Design. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. Springer, Singapore, Jan. 9, 2017, pp. 291–300.

Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_25

Kiran Ghadge and Amaresh Chakrabarti. “A Framework for Knowledge Management in Manual Assembly Processes”. In: Procedia CIRP. 13th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering. Vol. 88. Gulf of Naples, Italy: Elsevier, July 17–19, 2019, pp. 94–97.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.05.017

Knowledge Management in Research and Development Projects: Mapping intellectual Assets for Innovation in Manufacturing.

InDeaTe 3.0: An Ontology Based, Generic Design Process Guidance Web-tool.

Research Interests

Engineering Design, Knowledge Management, Innovation in Manufacturing, Design for Sustainability , Circular Economy and Inclusivity.

Distinguished paper award for the paper titled ‘Application of InDeaTe Design Tool for Designing Sustainable Products—Case Study of a Natural Water Cooler’ in ICoRD’17, an international Design conference.

NTSE (National Talent Search Exam) Scholarship, 2000.

Kiran Ghadge

Assistant Professor

PhD

School of Design and Innovation

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