He believes that 21st century students’ design proposals tend to be example-driven, and therefore students’ research is often reduced to browsing for pre-existing solutions through search engines, which creates only surface-level problem solving skills instead of skills that use more in-depth critical thinking and method-driven design solutions. Professor Majumdar has received several national and international awards and has presented papers on design education, on sustainability in design, on mentoring, and on collaborative research projects at several distinguished national and international design conferences