Journal History
2017 |
The inaugural issue was released. Designs was published as a quarterly journal. |
2018 |
Designs announced the first edition of the Travel award. |
2020 |
Designs was indexed in Scopus. |
2021 |
Designs received its first CiteScore (2020) of 2.1, ranked CiteScore - Q2 in "Engineering, miscellaneous". |
2022 |
Designs adopted a bimonthly publication schedule. |
2023 |
Designs announced the first edition of the Best Paper award. |
2024 |
Designs was indexed in Ei Compendex (Elsevier). |
Editor-in-Chief
2017–2021 |
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Hamid Reza Karimi |
2022–present |
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Joshua M. Pearce |
Section Editor-in-Chief
2020–present |
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Thiede for the section on Smart Manufacturing Systems and Factories |
2021–present |
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Wenbin Yu for the section on Mechanical Engineering Design Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. King Jet Tseng for the section on Electrical Engineering Design Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Carlos Chastre for the section on Civil Engineering Design Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Ruxandra Botez for the section on Vehicle Engineering Design Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Mohammad Hassan Khooban for the section on Energy System Design |
2022–present |
Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Elisabetta Sieni for the section on Bioengineering Design |