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Karana
Motto:
Just do it
Contact:
Room | B-3-170 |
Phone | +31 (0)15 27 85726 |
Address | Landbergstraat 15 The Netherlands |
Present | Mon - Tue - Wed - Thu - Fri |
Dr. E. Karana (Elvin)
Assistant Professor
Design Engineering
Biography
Dr Elvin Karanais an Assistant Professor in the Department of Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. She commenced her bachelor degree in 1998 at the Industrial Design Department, of the Middle East Technical University (METU). In 2002, Elvin completed her studies with a ‘high’ honours degree, coming top in her year. She progressed onto her masters studies as a research assistant and assisted in a ‘materials and design’ course within the same department.
In 2009, she completed her PhD research at Delft University of Technology. In her PhD, she developed a ‘Meaning Driven Materials Selection Tool’ to support designers in their materials selection activities. She has presented her research at a number of international conferences and has run various workshops on the ‘meanings of materials’. She got the best paper award in the 1st Kansei Engineering and Emotional Research Conference held in Japan in 2006. She was a member of the organizing committee of the 4th International Design and Emotion Conference (Ankara, 2004), Meeting Materials (Gent, 2006) and the International Conference on Tools and Methods for Competitive Engineering (TMCE) (Izmir, 2007).
Dr. Karana is one of the founders of the Natural Fibre Composites (NFC) Design Platform in The Netherlands (2010). Her current research and education interests include teaching materials in design and designing and manufacturing with bio-based materials. She is the developer and the coordinator of the Materials Library: Made Of.. at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft.
Education
- 2009, PhD
Delft University of Technology, Industrial Design Engineering
Title:Meanings Of Materials - 2004, MSc
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Title: Guidelines for a materials selection sourcefor industrial design - 2002, BID
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Specialisation/field of research
- Materials Experience// Meanings of Materials// Sensorial Properties of Materials
- Materials Selection Tools and Methods in Design
- Teaching Materials in Design// Materials Library Integration to Design Education
- Designing with Bio-Based Materials// Meanings of Bio-based Materials
Lectures and/or coaches students on
- Advanced Embodiment Design
Coordinator - Materials For Design
Coordinator, Lecturer - Bachelor End Project
Coach, Expert - Design Experience
Coach
Publications
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