Daniel A. McAdams

Educational Background

Design theory and methodology with specific focus on functional modeling; innovation in concept synthesis including computational methods; bio-inspired design methods; design for disability, and technology evolution as applied to product and system design.

Department of MEEN - Industry Advisory Council Faculty Mentoring Award
2020 ASME Design Theory and Methodology Award
2018 Texas A&M Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Individual Student Relations.
2018 Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Multifunctional Materials and Structures, Ventura, CA, January 2018.
2017 Best Paper Award, ASME IDETC Design Theory and Methodology Conference for “Guanglu Zhang, Daniel A. McAdams, Milad Mohammadi Darani, Venkatesh Shankar, “Product Performance Evolution Prediction by Lotka-Volterra Equations,” 2017 ASME IDETC/CIE Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, DETC2017-67369.
2017 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award; Texas A&M Department of Mechanical Engineering
2016-2017 Herbert H. Richardson Faculty Fellow Award
2015 Mechanical Engineering Industrial Advisory Council Outstanding Faculty Contribution Award
2014-2015 Herbert H. Richardson Faculty Fellow Award
2014-2015 Dwight Look College of Engineering Dean’s Fellow
2012 Design Studies Award, for the best paper published in the journal Design Studies

Hyeonik Song, Daniel Selva, and Daniel A. McAdams, “Patent Mining to Understand Functional Evolution of Engineered Products,” Proceedings of the ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, St. Louis, MO, DETC2022-89405.
Devesh Bhasin, David Staack, and Daniel A. McAdams "Bioinspiration of Product Architecture: Trading-off System Effectiveness for System Robustness," the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, April 2022 (online), pp. 1-27, https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4054246.
Maulik C. Kotecha, Ting-Ju Chen, Daniel A. McAdams and, Vinayak Krishnamurthy “Design Ideation Through Speculative Fiction: Foundational Principles & Exploratory Study,” the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. August, 2021, Vol. 143, No. 8, pp. 080801-1-080801-16, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4049656.
Devesh Bhasin, Daniel A. McAdams, and Astrid Layton, "A Product Architecture-Based Tool for Bioinspired Function-Sharing," the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, August 2021, Vol. 143, No. 8, pp. 081401-1-081401-10, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4049151.
Guanglu Zhang, Douglas Allaire, Daniel A. McAdams, and Venkatesh Shankar, "Generating Technology Evolution Prediction Intervals Using a Bootstrap Method," the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol 141, No. 6, January 31, 2019, 9 pages, Paper No: MD-18-1341; doi: 10.1115/1.4041860