Empower Research Lab

Empower Research Lab

Ecosketch

Helping designers and engineers incorporate sustainability with user-friendly analytics and visualization tools for life cycle assessments.

Description

This project is creating more usable analytics and visualization tools to help product designers and engineers understand and act upon sustainability considerations. We focus on life cycle assessment (LCA), which evaluates the environmental impacts of a product throughout its life cycle, from extraction and processing of raw materials to manufacturing, distribution, use, and final disposal. We partner with Synapse Product Development and EarthShift Global to ensure our tools are tailored to the needs of real-world practitioners.

Publications

Examining the User Experience of Life Cycle Assessment Tools and Their Ability to Cater to Ecodesign in Early-Stage Product Development Practice

Tejaswini Chatty, Yingkun Qu, Hana H Ba-SabaaElizabeth L Murnane

Proceedings of the Design Society

sustainability

product design

designers

engineers

analytics

visualization

Do Better. Sustainable Product Design

Tejaswini Chatty, Will Harrison, Lina Cowen, Martine Stillman

Pages 1–51 · Synapse Product Development Inc. · 2020

sustainability

product development

designers

engineers

Perception of Sustainable Design Integration Benefits Among Industry Product Development Teams: A Case Study

**Tejaswini Chatty**, **Jeremy Faludi**

Proceedings of the Design Society (DESIGN) · Volume 1 · Pages 2475–2484 · Cambridge University Press · 2020

sustainability

product development

designers

engineers

Co-Creating a Framework to Integrate Sustainable Design into Product Development Practice: Case Study at an Engineering Consultancy Firm

Tejaswini Chatty, Will Harrison, Hana H Ba-Sabaa, Jeremy Faludi, Elizabeth L Murnane

Sustainability

sustainability

product design

designers

engineers

methodological framework

Date

2018 - 2023

Keywords

sustainability

visualization

designers

D-Pine
Murnane Research Group at Dartmouth College | Contact: empowerlab@dartmouth.edu | Last updated: March 2025
Thayer School of Engineering