# David Ullman (author)

David Gordon Ullman (born March 15, 1944, in Washington, D.C.) is an American author, professor, and a specialist on product design and decision making best practices. Ullman is best known for his textbook The Mechanical Design Process, used by universities globally. To date, Ullman's work has been cited more than 7,000 times with 2,000 citations. Ullman has a PhD in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University and was professor of mechanical design at Oregon State University for 20 years. He is a Life Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and founder of its Design Theory and Methodology committee.

## Publications
### Books

* The Mechanical Design Process, McGraw-Hill, NY, 6th Edition.
* Concurrent Engineering: The Product Development Environment for the 1990s, Mentor Graphics, 1991.
* "Mechanical Design Failure Analysis : D. G. Ullman : 9780824775346". www.bookdepository.com. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
* Ullman, David G. (21 March 2019). Scrum for Hardware Design: Supporting Material for The Mechanical Design. David Ullman LLC. ISBN 978-0999357842.

### Journals and papers

* Ullman, David (1995). "Taxonomy for classifying engineering decision problems and support systems". Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing. 9 (5): 427–438. doi:10.1017/S0890060400002742. ISSN 1469-1760. S2CID 14381708.
* Ullman, David G.; D' Ambrosio, Bruce (1995). "Taxonomy for classifying engineering decision problems and support systems". Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing. 9 (5): 427–438. doi:10.1017/S0890060400002742. ISSN 0890-0604. S2CID 14381708.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
* Herling, Derald E. "An Engineering Decision Support System (EDSS) with alternative-criterion pair evaluations". ir.library.oregonstate.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
* Monteiro, M. R.; Lees, B.; Branki, C. (1998), Jacucci, Gianni; Olling, Gustav J.; Preiss, Kenneth; Wozny, Michael J. (eds.), "A Review of Engineering Design Support Systems and models", Globalization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era of the 21st Century: Innovation, Agility, and the Virtual Enterprise, IFIP - The International Federation for Information Processing, Boston, MA: Springer US, pp. 857–868, doi:10.1007/978-0-387-35351-7_67, ISBN 978-0-387-35351-7
* Nagy, Richard L.; Ullman, David G.; Dietterich, Thomas G. (1996), Waldron, Manjula B.; Waldron, Kenneth J. (eds.), "A Data Representation for Collaborative Mechanical Design", Mechanical Design: Theory and Methodology, New York, NY: Springer, pp. 237–253, doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-2561-2_11, ISBN 978-1-4757-2561-2, retrieved 2020-11-24
* McGinnis, B. D.; Ullman, D. G. (1992-03-01). "The Evolution of Commitments in the Design of a Component". Journal of Mechanical Design. 114 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1115/1.2916917. ISSN 1050-0472.
* Ullman, D. (1992). "A taxonomy for mechanical design". Research in Engineering Design. 3 (3): 179–189. doi:10.1007/BF01580519. S2CID 111291051.
* Stauffer, Larry A.; Ullman, David G. (1991-01-01). "Fundamental Processes of Mechanical Designers Based on Empirical Data". Journal of Engineering Design. 2 (2): 113–125. doi:10.1080/09544829108901675. ISSN 0954-4828.
* Kuffner, Tom A.; Ullman, David G. (1991-01-01). "The information requests of mechanical design engineers". Design Studies. 12 (1): 42–50. doi:10.1016/0142-694X(91)90007-J. ISSN 0142-694X.
* Hwang, T. S.; Ullman, David G. (1990-01-01). "The Design Capture System: Capturing Back-of-the-envelope Sketches". Journal of Engineering Design. 1 (4): 339–353. doi:10.1080/09544829008901662. ISSN 0954-4828.
* "The Importance of Drawing". web.engr.oregonstate.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
* "A Model of the Mechanical Design Process". web.engr.oregonstate.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
* Stauffer, L. A.; Ullman, D. G. (1988-04-01). "A comparison of the results of empirical studies into the mechanical design process". Design Studies. 9 (2): 107–114. doi:10.1016/0142-694X(88)90036-1. ISSN 0142-694X.
* Ullman, D.G., T.G. Dietterich, "Toward Expert CAD," ASME, Computers in Mechanical Engineering ," Vol. 6, No. 3, Nov.-Dec. 1987, pp. 56–70