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    Joint Special Issue on Advances in Design and Manufacturing for Sustainability (Series 2)

    Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering  
    Journal of Mechanical Design 
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    ASME’s Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) and Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering (JMSE) are pleased to announce Series 2 of the Joint Special Issue on Advances in Design and Manufacturing for Sustainability. This cross-journal initiative is organized under the joint leadership of ASME’s Design Engineering Division (DED) and Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED).

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    This special issue seeks to accelerate the publication of high-impact, sustainability-driven research from the ASME community. It provides an opportunity to publish journal-quality papers presented at the Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC), including but not limited to the Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) Track, and at the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference, including those from the Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle (DFMLC) Conference, Design Automation Conference (DAC), Design Theory and Methodology (DTM) Conference, among others. The issue also welcomes new submissions aligned with the goals of sustainable product and process innovation. Submissions may include research papers, technical briefs, design innovation papers, review articles, and expert view articles, as defined by ASME.

    Topic Areas

    THE SCOPE OF THIS ISSUE INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:

    • Sustainable design optimization and trade-off analysis 
    • Design for reuse, repair, remanufacturing, and recycling
    • Circular economy strategies for sustainable industrial ecosystems
    • AI-driven methods and digital tools for sustainability
    • Experimental or field validation of sustainable manufacturing models and design tools
    • Sustainable manufacturing process innovation and assessment
    • Intelligent systems and robotics for sustainable manufacturing
    • Manufacturing systems in energy-restricted environments
    • Systems modeling, simulation, and analysis for resilient and sustainable supply chains
    • Life cycle assessment, techno-economic analysis, and decision support frameworks

    Special Issue Publication Dates


    Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2026
    Initial review completed: August 1, 2026
    Publication date: January 2027

    Submission Instructions

    Papers should be submitted electronically to the journal through the ASME Journal Tool. If you already have an account, log in as an author and select Submit Paper. If you do not have an account, you can create one here. 

    Once at the Paper Submittal page, select either Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering or Journal of Mechanical Design, and then select the Joint Special Issue on Advances in Design and Manufacturing for Sustainability (Series 2).

    Papers received after the deadline or papers not selected for the Special Issue may be accepted for publication in a regular issue.

    Guest Editors

    JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN:
    Abigail Clarke-Sather, University of Minnesota Duluth (abbie@d.umn.edu)
    Sara Behdad, University of Florida (sarabehdad@ufl.edu)
    Albert E. Patterson, Texas A&M University (aepatterson5@tamu.edu)
    Yaoyao Fiona Zhao, McGill University (yaoyao.zhao@mcgill.ca)

    JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING:
    Muyue (Margaret) Han, North Carolina A&T State University (mhan@ncat.edu)
    Karl Haapala, Oregon State University (karl.haapala@oregonstate.edu)
    Sidi Deng, State University of New York at Binghamton (sdeng6@binghamton.edu)
    Nehika Mathur, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (nehika.mathur@nist.gov)