Journal Publications
2026
The Random Prompts Method: A Novel Ideation Method for Improving Tactics Ideation by Ashworth, T. J., Sorensen, C. D., Anderson, M. L., and Mattson, C. A., (2026), Research in Engineering Design, Vol. 37, Issue 2, DOI:10.1007/s00163-026-00479-z.
Axiom-based aggregation functions for calculating variety, novelty, quality and quantity of ideation results by Sorensen, C. D., Ashworth, T. J., Stapleton, T., Mattson, C. A., and Anderson, M. L. (2026), Design Science, 12, E9. DOI:10.1017/dsj.2026.10051
Path Optimization From En Route 3DPrinted Aircraft Using Physics-Based Estimation Methods and Surrogate Models by Dickerson, T. J., Salmon, J. L., and Mattson, C. A., Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 148, No. 4, pp. 041704, 2026; DOI: 10.1115/1.4069685.
2024
Armstrong, A. G., Mattson, C. A., Salmon, J. L., Dahlin, E. C., Geilman, T. B., “Social Impact Evaluation Analysis: A Systematic Qualitative Method for Assessing Engineered Products,” Design Science, Vol. 10, E45, 2024. DOI:10.1017/dsj.2024.31.
Rice, S. E., Sannar, B. C., McKinnon, S. A., Humphrey, T. M., Mattson, C. A., Sorensen, C. D., and Anderson, M. L., “Product Architecture Strategies and Effects Matrices for Early Evaluation and Selection of Product Architectures,” Design Science, Vol. 10, E41, 2024. DOI:10.1017/dsj.2024.18.
Dickerson, T. J., Salmon, J. L., and Mattson, C. A., “Optimization of 3D Printing While Traveling En Route to Extend Range of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Multilocation Mission Scenarios.” Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 146, No. 12, pp. 121705, 2024; DOI: 10.1115/1.4065745.
Stevenson, P. D., Mattson, C. A., Salmon, J. L. and N. W. Hatch, “Optimizing Engineered Products for Their Social Impacts On Multiple Stakeholders,” Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 146, No. 9, pp. 091702, 2024, DOI: 10.1115/1.4064694.
Owens, T., Mattson, C. A., Sorensen, C. D., and Anderson, M. L., “A Formal Consideration of User Tactics During Product Evaluation in Early-Stage Product Development,” International Journal of Product Development, Vol. 28, No. 1/2, PP. 104-129, 2024, DPI:10.1504/IJPD.2024.137784.
Mattson, C. A., Geilman, T. B., Cook-Wright, J. F., Mabey, C. S., Dahlin, E., Salmon, J. L., “Fifty-Five Prompt Questions for Identifying Social Impacts of Engineered Products,” Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 146, No. 1, pp. 011402, 2024, DOI: 10.1115/1.4063453.
Mabey, C. S., Dickerson, T., Salmon, J. L., Mattson, C. A., “An Approach for Predicting Social, Environmental, and Economic Product Impacts and Characterizing the Associated Sustainability Tradespace in Engineering Design,” Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 146, No. 2, pp. 020904, 2024, DOI: 10.1115/1.4064041.
2023
Stevenson, P. D., Mattson, C. A., and Salmon, J. L., “Creating Predictive Social Impact Models of Engineered Products Using Synthetic Populations,” Research in Engineering Design, Vol. 34, pp. 461-476, 2023, DOI: 10.1007/s00163-023-00424-4.
Mabey, C. S., Peiffer, E., MacCarty, N., Mattson, C. A., “Simulating the Adoption and Social Impact of Improved Cookstoves in Uganda Using Agent-Based Modeling and Neural Networks,” Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 145, No. 12, pp. 1217011, 2023, DOI: 10.1115/1.4063237.
Richards, D., Stevenson, P., Mattson, C., and Salmon, J.L, “An Approach for Including Social Impact Measures in Systems Design Exploration,” Design Science, Vol. 9, E16, 2023. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1017/dsj.2023.13.
Mabey, C. S., Salmon, J. L., and Mattson, C. A., “Agent-Based Product-Social-ImpactModeling: A Systematic Literature Review and Modeling Process,” Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 145, No. 11, pp. 110801, 2023, DOI: 10.1115/1.4063004.
Burleson, G., Lajoie, J., Mabey, C., Sours, P., Ventrella, J., Peiffer, E., Stine, E., Stettler Kleine, M., MacDonald, L., Austin-Breneman, J., et al “Advancing Sustainable Development: Emerging Factors and Futures for the Engineering Field.” Sustainability 2023, Vol. 15, No. 10, pp. 7869. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15107869
Stringham, B, J., Mattson, C. A., Jenkins, P., Dahlin, E., and Okware, I., “Enabling Insights by Long-Term Evaluation of Social Impact Indicators of Engineered Products for Global Development using In-Situ Sensors and Deep Learning,” Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 145, No. 11, pp. 111401, 2023, DOI: 10.1115/1.4062944.
Richards, D., Salmon, J.L., Dickerson, T., Mattson, C., Neff, W., “A decision support system for multi-stakeholder exploration of the airship design space.” The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, 2023. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1177/15485129231164416
Liechty, J. C., Mabey, C. S., Mattson, C. A., Salmon, J. L., Weaver, J. M., “Trade-Off Characterization Between Social and Environmental Impacts Using Agent-Based Product Adoption Models and Life Cycle Assessment,” Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 145, No. 3, pp. 032001, 2023, DOI:10.1115/1.4056006.
Armstrong, A. G., Suk, H., Mabey, C. S., Mattson, C. A., Hall. J., and Salmon, J. L., “Systematic Review and Classification of the Engineering for Global Development Literature Based on Design Tools and Methods for Social Impact Consideration,” Journal of Mechanical Design, 2023, Vol. 145, No. 3, pp. 030801, DOI: 10.1115/1.4055325.
2022
Wixom, J. H., Dahlin, E., Child, C., Mattson, C. A., “Logics of Collaboration: An Ethnography of Engineering Co-design in the Brazilian Amazon,” International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship, 2022, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 1-13, DOI: 10.24908/ijsle.v17i2.15709.
Ottosson, H. J., Mattson, C. A., and Johnson, O. K., “Use of Simulation and Wear Prediction to Explore Design Improvements to the Cup Seal in the India Mark II/III Hand Pump System,” 2022, Development Engineering, No. 1, Vol. 7, pp. DOI:10.1016/j.deveng.2022.100092.
2021
Assessing Global Needs When Identifying Potential Engineering for Global Development Projects by Mabey, C. S., Mattson, C. A., and Dahlin, E., Journal of Mechanical Design, 2021, [In Press]
Factors Leading to Sustainable Social Impact on the Affected Communities of Engineering Service Learning Projects by Armstrong, A. G., Mattson, C. A., and Lewis, R. S., Development Engineering, 2021, Vol. 6
Nitrile cup seal robustness in the India Mark II/III hand pump system by Ottosson, H.J., Mattson, C.A., Johnson, O.K., Naylor, T.A., Development Engineering, 2021, Vol 6
Design of Remote Data Collection Devices for Social Impact Indicators of Products in Developing Countries by Stringham, B. J., and Mattson, C. A., Development Engineering, 2021, Vol. 6
Identifying high-potential work areas in Engineering for Global Development: Linking Industry Sectors to the Human Development Index by Smith, D., Mattson, C., and Dahlin, E., Journal of Mechanical Design, 2021, Vol. 143, Issue 6
2020
Evaluation of User Preferences for 3D Modeling and Design Reviews in Virtual Reality by Nysetvold, J. and Salmon, J.L., 2020
Structural Design Space Exploration Using Principal Component Analysis by Bunnell, S., Thelin, C., Bird, G., Salmon J.L. and Gorrell, S., Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 6., 2020
Single Pursuer and Two Cooperative Evaders in the Border Defense Differential Game by Salmon, J., Willey, L., Casbeer, D., Garcia, E., and Von Moll, A., Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, Vol. 17, No. 5., 2020.
Analysis of Perceived Social Impacts of Existing Products Designed for the Developing World, With Implications for New Product Development by Ottosson, H.J., Mattson, C.A., Dahlin, E.C., Journal of Mechanical Design, 2020, Vol 142, https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4044323
2019
Quantifying the Effects of Various Factors on the Utility of Design Ethnography in the Developing World by Wood, A. E. and Mattson, C. A., Research in Engineering Design
Over-Design Versus Redesign as a Response to Future Requirements by Allen, J. D., Stevenson, P. D., Mattson, C. A., and Hatch, N. W, Journal of Mechanical Design, 2019, Vol. 141 No. 3
Using a Product’s Sustainability Space as a Design Exploration Tool by Mattson, C. A., A. Pack, Lofthouse, V., and Bhamra, T., Design Science, 2019, Vol. 5, No. 1
2018
Incorporating Global and Local Customer Needs into Early Stages of Improved Cookstove Design by Thacker, K. S., Barger, K. M., and Mattson, C. A., International Journal of Product Development, 2018, Vol. 5, No 22
The Social Impacts of Products: A Review by M. Rainock, D. Everett, A. Pack, E. Dahlin, and C. A. Mattson, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 2018, Vol. 36, No. 3
Towards a Universal Social Impact Metric for Engineered Products that Alleviate Poverty by Stevenson, P., Mattson, C., Bryden, D., and MacCarty, N., Journal of Mechanical Design, 2018, Vol. 140, No. 4
2017
Village Drill: A case study in engineering for global development with five years of data post market-introduction by C. A. Mattson, A. E. Wood, and J. Renouard, Journal of Mechanical Design, 2017, Vol. 139, No. 6.
Design for excess capability to handle uncertain product requirements in a developing world setting by Allen, J. D., Thacker, K. S., Mattson, C. A., and Ferguson, S. M., Research in Engineering Design, 2017, Vol. 28
Experimenting with concepts from modular product design and multi-objective optimization to benefit people living in poverty by Wasley, N. S., Lewis, P. K., Mattson, C. A., and Ottosson, H. J., Development Engineering, 2017, Vol. 2
Balancing Technical and User Objective in the Redesign of a Peruvian Cookstove by Thacker, K. S., Barger, K. M., and Mattson, C. A., Development Engineering, 2017, Vol. 2
2016
Evaluation of System Evolvability Based on Usable Excess by Allen, J. D., Mattson, C. A., and Ferguson, S. M., Journal of Mechanical Design, 2016, Vol. 138, No. 9
Identifying and Mapping Excess Relationships in Engineered Systems by Cansler, E., White, S., Ferguson, S., and Mattson, C. A., Journal of Mechanical Design, 2016, Vol. 138, No. 8
Design for the Developing World: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them by Wood, A. E. and Mattson, C. A., Journal of Mechanical Design, 2016, Vol. 138, No. 3
Optimization of Excess System Capability for Increased Evolvability by Watson, J. D., Allen, J. D, Mattson, C. A., and Ferguson, S. M., Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2016, Vol. 53., No. 6
2015
L-Dominance: An Approximate-Domination Mechanism for Adaptive Resolution of Pareto Frontiers by Hancock, B. J., Nysetvold, T., Mattson, C. A., Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2015, Vol. 52, No. 2
Hybrid Bishop-Hill Model Combined Finite Element Analysis for Elastic-Yield Limited Design by Takahashi, R., Fullwood, D. T., Rampton, T. M., Skousen, D. J., Adams, B. L., and Mattson, C. A., Engineering Computations, 2015, Vol. 32, No. 6
Modular Product Optimization to Alleviate Poverty: An Irrigation Pump Case Study by Lewis, P. K., Mattson C. A., and Wood, C. D., International Journal of Product Development, 2015, Vol. 20, No. 1
2014
Nine Principles for Design for the Developing World as Derived from the Engineering Literature by Mattson C. A. , and Wood, A. E., Journal of Mechanical Design, 2014, Vol. 136, No. 12
A Model for Quantifying System Evolvability Based on Excess and Capacity by Tackett, M. W. P., Mattson, C. A., and Ferguson, S. M., Journal of Mechanical Design, 2014, Vol. 136, No. 5
Using Topology Optimization to Numerically Improve Barriers to Reverse Engineering by D. D. LeBaron and C. A. Mattson, Journal of Mechanical Design, 2014, Vol. 136, No. 2
Considering Dynamic Pareto Frontiers in Decision Making by Lewis, P. K., Tackett, M.W.P., and Mattson, C. A., Optimization and Engineering, 2014, Vol. 15, No. 4
2013
The Smart Normal Constraint Method for Directly Generating a Smart Pareto Set by Hancock, B. J., Mattson, C. A., Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2013, Vol. 48, No. 4
Usage Scenarios for Design Space Exploration with a Dynamic Multiobjective Optimization Formulation by Curtis, S. K., Hancock, B. J., and Mattson, C. A., Research in Engineering Design, 2013, Vol. 24, No. 4
An Optimization-Based Method for Designing Modular Systems that Traverse Dynamic s-Pareto Frontiers by Lewis, P. K. and Mattson, C. A., Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2013, Vol. 48, No. 5
Divergent Exploration in Design with a Dynamic Multiobjective Optimization Formulation by Curtis, S. K., Mattson, C. A., Hancock, B. J., and Lewis, P. K., Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 47, No. 5
Characterizing the Effects of Learning when Reverse Engineering Multiple Samples of the Same Product by Curtis, S. K., Harston, S. P., and Mattson, C. A., Journal of Mechanical Design, 2013, Vol. 135, No. 1
2012
Propagating Skewness and Kurtosis Through Engineering Models for Low-Cost, Meaningful, Non-Deterministic Design by Anderson, T. V. and Mattson, C. A., Journal of Mechanical Design, Special Issue on Design Under Uncertainty, 2012, Vol. 134, No. 10
A Differentially Driven Flapping Wing Mechanism for Force Analysis and Trajectory Optimization by George, R. B., Colton, M. B., Mattson, C. A., Thomson, S. L., International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, 2012, Vol. 4, No. 1
Design Space Exploration for Quantifying and Improving System Model Execution Reliability by Larson, B. H., and Mattson, C. A., Journal of Mechanical Design, 2012, Vol. 134, No. 4
A Method for Developing Systems that Traverse the Pareto Frontiers of Multiple System Concepts Over Time by Lewis, P. K., and Mattson, C. A., Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2012, 45(4)
Efficient Propagation of Error through System Models for Functions Common in Engineering by Anderson, T. V., Mattson, C. A., Larson, B. H., and Fullwood, D. T., Journal of Mechanical Design, 2012, Vol. 134
2011
Hybrid Bishop-Hill Model for Elastic-Yield Limited Design With Non-Orthorhombic Polycrystalline Metals by Takahashi, R., Prasai, D, Adams, B. L., and Mattson, C. A., Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, 134.1, 2011
The Fundamentals of Barriers to Reverse Engineering and their Implementation into Mechanical Components by Curtis, S. K., Harston, S. P., and Mattson, C. A., Research in Engineering Design, Vol 22, 2011
A Design Optimization Strategy for Creating Devices that Traverse the Pareto Frontier Over Time by Lewis, P. K., Murray, V. R., and Mattson, C. A., Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2011
2010
A Computationally-Assisted Methodology for Preference-Guided Conceptual Design by Barnum, G. J. and Mattson, C. A., Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 132, No. 12, 2010
Capitalizing on Heterogeneity and Anisotropy to Design Desirable Hardware that is Difficult to Reverse Engineer by Harston, S. P., Mattson, C. A., and Adams, B. L., Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 132, 2010
Metrics for Evaluating the Barrier and Time to Reverse Engineer a Product by Harston, S. P., and Mattson, C. A., Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 132, 2010
Optimization of Near-constant Force Springs Subject to Mating Uncertainty by Meaders, J. C., and Mattson, C. A., Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2010
2009
Case Studies in Concept Exploration and Selection with s-Pareto Frontiers by Mattson, C. A., Mullur, A. A., and Messac, A., International Journal of Product Development, Special Issue on Space Exploration and Design Optimization, Vol. 9, No.1/2/3, 2009
2007
Configuration Selection, Modeling, and Preliminary Testing in Support of Constant Force Electrical Connectors by Weight, B. L., Mattson, C. A., Magleby, S. P., and Howell, L. L., ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging, Vol. 129, No. 3, 2007