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The Center for e-Design is a cooperative research center to accelerate product realization by developing and applying intelligent strategies and tools that integrate, leverage, and enable the processes, personnel, and data of design and manufacturing enterprises.
The Center for e-Design integrates innovation and creativity with fundamental principles of science, mathematics, and engineering in the development, testing, and implementation of new methods and technologies for the design of products and systems focused on faster time-to-market, better product quality, and significantly reduced costs. It focuses its efforts in three major areas to deliver value to its industry and government partners:
James Lambert
Center Staff
+1 434 924 4270
lambert@virginia.edu
Kemper Lewis
Center Co-Director
+1 541 737 7035
kelewis@buffalo.edu
John Chandy
Center Staff
+1 860 486 3622
john.chandy@uconn.edu
Sundar Krishnamurty
Center Co-Director
+1 413 545 0297
skrishna@ecs.umass.edu
Kyoung-yun Kim
Center Co-Director
+1 313 577 4396
kykim@eng.wayne.edu
John Emmert
Center Staff
+1 513 556 4358
john.emmert@uc.edu
Yiorgos Makris
Center Staff
+1 972 883 2313
yiorgos.makris@utdallas.edu
Chris Hoyle
Center Co-Director
+1 541 737 7035
chris.hoyle@oregonstate.edu
Yunsi Fei
Center Staff
+1 617 373 3004
yfei@ece.neu.edu
Irem Tumer
Center Staff
+1 541 737 4933
irem.tumer@oregonstate.edu
Gul Okudan-Kremer
Center Co-Director
+1 515 294 0127
gkremer@iastate.edu
Houman Homayoun
Center Staff
+1 530 754 7700
hhomayoun@ucdavis.edu
John Salmon
Center Co-Director
+1 801 422 7135
johnsalmon@byu.edu
Daniel Finke
Center Director
+1 814 865 5178
daf903@psu.edu
Design education
The objective of design education research is to prepare and support students and practitioners to take on current and future challenges in engineering design. Research focuses on improving design pedagogy through training on new design tools and methods, integrating design thinking into engineering design processes, and providing training on and understanding decision-making under uncertainty in local, distant, and distributed learning environments. The ultimate goal is to prepare individuals for careers in intelligent product and system design, development, and realization.
Information infrastructure
The objective of information infrastructure research is to explore and develop new software, hardware, information modeling approaches (e.g., ontologies), and secure data handling processes and storage necessary to improve the product development processes that corporations and their supply chains use.
Innovation
The objective of innovation research is to develop new engineering design processes and methodologies to improve creativity and innovation in the design of products, systems, production systems, and supply chains. This research focuses on collaboration tools, measuring and improving creativity in the designs of products and service systems, and social-centric design processes.
Integration
The objective of integration research is to develop new methods and tools that more closely integrate engineering design with engineering analysis, manufacturing, supply chain, maintenance, sustainability, and the end user. Research focuses on the integration of information, knowledge, tools, and models across the product life cycle to enable innovative designs, decreased time to market, and reduced total life cycle costs.
Intelligence
The objective of intelligence research is to develop methods that enable better and faster decision-making through intelligent, data/information-driven, and model-based systems. Research in this area focuses on the development of tools, methods, and algorithms that enhance capabilities of the designers through collaboration with computing resources such as artificial intelligence, cloud-based digital design, data mining, sensor and sensor networks data science, and machine learning.
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