Our Publications
Journal Publications
Budinoff, H.D. & Kramer, J. (2022). CAD as a virtual prototyping method: Uses and timing of computer-aided design artifacts in hardware design. International Journal of Engineering Education, 38(6), 1747–1760.
Kramer, J., Rao, V. & Agogino, A. (2022). Designing for cervical cancer screening in rural Nicaragua: A case study in complex human-centered service design. International Journal of Design, 16(2), 107-123. 10.57698/v16i2.08
Budinoff, H.D. & Kramer, J. (2022). ‘Earning your Scars’: An Exploratory Interview Study of Design for Manufacturing at Hardware Startups. Research in Engineering Design 33, 395–411. 10.1007/s00163-022-00396-x.
Kramer, J. (2021). Eradicating Cervical Cancer: Lessons Learned from Rwanda and Australia. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. 10.1002/ijgo.13601.
Li, N., Kramer, J., Gordon, P., & Agogino, A. (2018). Co-Author Network Analysis of Human-Centered Design for Development. Design Science, 4, E10. 10.1017/dsj.2018.1.
Gordon, P., Kramer, J., Dzombak, R., Martin, S., & Agogino, A. (2018). Building 21st Century Skills Through Development Engineering. International Journal of Engineering Education, 34(2B).
Zhang, C., Kwon, Y. P., Kramer, J., Kim, E., & Agogino, A. (2017). Concept Clustering in Design Teams: A Comparison of Human and Machine Clustering. Journal of Mechanical Design, 139(11), 111414. 10.1115/1.4037478
Gericke, K., Kramer, J., & Roschuni, C. (2016). An exploratory study of the discovery and selection of design methods in practice. Journal of Mechanical Design, 138(10), 101109. 10.1115/1.4034088
Young, M., Kramer, J., Chu, J., Hong, J., Sienko, K., & Johnston, C. (2016). A Cervical Cancer Screening Trainer for Use in Low-Resource Settings. International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship, 11(1), 1-18. 10.24908/ijsle.v11i1.6323
Agogino, A., Beckman, S., Castanos, C., Kramer, J., Roschuni, C. & Yang, M. (2016). Design Practitioners’ Perspectives on Methods for Ideation and Prototyping. International Journal of Engineering Education, 32(3B).
Kramer, J., Daly, S., Yilmaz, S., Seifert, C., & Gonzalez, R. (2015). Investigating the Impacts of Design Heuristics on Idea Initiation and Development. Advances in Engineering Education, 4(4).
Refereed Conference Publications
Wojciechowski, L., Himes, E., Cheruiyot, N., Turinayo, A.H., Niyonsaba, S., Kramer, J. (2023). Evaluating and Developing Human-Centered Design Workshops for Engagement of Co-Designers Living and Working in Sub-Saharan Africa. Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Boston, Massachusetts.
Syal, S. & Kramer, J. (2023). Design and Justice: A Scoping Review in Engineering Design. Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Boston, Massachusetts.
Luna Falcon, P., Budinoff, H.D., Kramer, J. & Bushra, J. (2023). Use of different prototype modalities for design communication in industry-sponsored, interdisciplinary capstone design teams during COVID-19. Proceedings of Harvey Mudd Design Workshop XII, Claremont, California.
Budinoff, H.D. & Kramer, J. (2021). CAD as a virtual prototyping method: Uses and timing of computer-aided design artifacts in hardware design. Proceedings of Harvey Mudd Design Workshop XI, Claremont, California.
Kramer, J., Poreh, D., & Agogino, A. (2017). Using theDesignExchange as a Knowledge Platform for Human-Centered Design-Driven Global Development. Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Design, Vancouver, Canada.
Winner of Reviewers’ Favourite Award.Zhang, C., Kwon Y.P., Kramer, J., Kim, E., & Agogino, A. (2017). Deep Learning for Design in Concept Clustering. Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Cleveland, Ohio.
Gordon, P., Kramer, J., Dzombak, R., Martin, S., & Agogino, A. (2017). Building 21st Century Skills Through Development Engineering. Proceedings of Harvey Mudd Design Workshop X, Claremont, California.
Kramer, J., Roschuni, C., & Agogino, A. (2016). Characterizing Competencies for Human-Centered Design. Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Staton, B., Kramer, J., Gordon, P., & Valdez, L. (2016). From the Technical to the Political: Democratizing Design Thinking. Proceedings of International Conference: From Contested Cities to Global Urban Justice, Madrid, Spain.
Gericke, K., Roschuni, C., & Kramer, J. (2015). Discovery and Evaluation of Design Methods in Practice: An Empirical Study. Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Boston, Massachusetts.
Roschuni, C., Kramer, J., & Agogino, A. (2015). Design Talking: How Design Practitioners Talk About Design Research Methods. Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Boston, Massachusetts.
Roschuni, C., Kramer, J., Zhang, Q., Zakskorn, L., & Agogino, A. (2015). Design Talking: An Ontology of Design Methods to Support a Common Language of Design. Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Design, Milan, Italy.
Winner of Reviewers’ Favourite Award.Agogino, A., Beckman, S., Castanos, C., Kramer, J., Roschuni, C., & Yang, M. (2015). Design Practitioners’ Perspectives on Methods for Ideation and Prototyping. Proceedings of Harvey Mudd Design Workshop IX, Claremont, California.
Kramer, J., Daly, S., Yilmaz, S., & Seifert, C. (2014). A Case-Study Analysis of Design Heuristics in an Upper-Level Cross-Disciplinary Design Course. Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Winner of Best of Design in Engineering Education.
Conference Publications and Presentations
Vallin, J., Wekesa, P., Kramer, J., Gitome, S., Himes, E., Liu, J., & ICAN-Kenya. (2022). Attention online shoppers! Utilizing a human-centered design approach to identify intervention opportunities to improve contraceptive access through an e-commerce platform in Kenya. Oral presentation at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), Pattaya City, Thailand.
Wekesa, P., Vallin, J., Okumu, S., Kramer, J., Ndunyu, L., Gitome, S., Kwena, Z. & Bukusi, E. (2022). “I don’t believe them it’s better to buy in person.” Facilitators and barriers of using an e-commerce platform to improve accessibility to contraception in Kenya. Oral Flash presentation at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), Pattaya City, Thailand.
Kramer, J., Gitome, S., Cheruiyot, N., Okumu, S., Kwena, Z., ICAN-Kenya, ICAN-UCSF, Bukusi, E., & Liu, J. (2022). Co-designing an e-commerce solution to improve access to contraception in Kenya. Poster Presentation at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), Pattaya City, Thailand.
Kramer, J., Gitome, S., Cheruiyot, N., Okumu, S., Kwena, Z., ICAN-Kenya, ICAN-UCSF, Bukusi, E., & Liu, J. (2022). Co-design in global health: Developing and applying a collaborative intervention design process to improve access to contraception in Kenya. Virtual Poster Presentation at the Seventh Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, Bogota, Colombia.
Challa, S., Omoluabi, E., Idiodi, I., Okoli, C., Jegede, A., Dimowo, S., Tijani, A., Nmadu, A.G., Suchman, L., Kramer, J., Osinowo, K., Diallo, R., & Liu, J. (2022). Providers’ perspectives on training and provision of self-injectable DMPA-SC in Lagos, Nigeria. Poster Presentation at Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Kramer, J., Kong, J., Staton, B., & Gordon, P. (2019). Applying Equity Design to Address Oakland‘s Homelessness Human Rights Crisis. Proceedings of Academy for Design Innovation Management Conference, London, U.K.
Kramer, J., Poreh, D., Kim, E., & Agogino, A. (2017). Teaching and Evaluating Design Competencies in the 21st Century. Poster presented at Harvey Mudd Design Workshop X, Claremont, California.
Kramer, J. & Young, M. (2017). Visualize: Training for Cervical Cancer Screening. Poster presented at World Health Organization Global Forum on Medical Devices, Geneva, Switzerland.
Kramer, J. & Young, M. (2016). Visualize: Training for Cervical Cancer Screening. Poster presented at Higher Education Solutions Network TechCon, Innovation Marketplace, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Yang, M., Agogino, A., & Kramer, J.. (2016). theDesignExchange: A Platform to Support Design for Global Development. Poster presented at Higher Education Solutions Network TechCon, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Castanos, C., Yang, M., Agogino, A., Roschuni, C., & Kramer, J.. (2016). Discovering Design Methods Online. Poster presented at 4th International Conference on Design Creativity, Atlanta, Georgia.
Agogino, A., Beckman, S., Castanos, C., Kramer, J., Roschuni, C., & Yang, M. (2015). Collaborative Research: TheDesignExchange, an Interactive Portal for the Design Community of Practice. Poster presented at NSF Sponsored Engineering Design and Systems Engineering Foundations Workshop, Clemson, South Carolina.
Kramer, J., Daly, S., Yilmaz, S., Seifert, C., & Gonzalez, R. (2014). Design Processes in an Upper-Level Design Course: An Evaluation of Design Heuristics. Poster presented at Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering at the University of Michigan, Eighth Annual Poster Fair, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Popular Press
Dzombak, R. & Kramer, J. (2017, June). Development Engineering: A Critical Overview. Berkeley Science Review [link]
Kramer, J., Daly, S., Yilmaz, S., Seifert, C., & Gonzalez, R. (2015, October). Leap of Imagination. ASEE PRISM. [link]
Kramer, J. (2015, September). The Problem with ‘Help’ in Global Development. Stanford Social Innovation Review. [link]