Research groups
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This page lists research groups and laboratories whose research is related to DDWiki topics. This page is incomplete and requires attention.
Automated Design Laboratory
Institution: University of Texas at Austin
Director: Matthew Campbell
Center for Innovation in Product Development
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Director: Steven Eppinger
Decision Systems Laboratory
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Director: Thurston, Deborah
Design Decision Support Laboratory
Institution: University of Maryland
Director: Shapour Azarm
Design Decisions Laboratory
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Director: Jeremy Michalek
The Design Decisions Laboratory develops theories and tools to understand and assist decision-making in design and product development. The group is interested in the preferences and economics that drive design tradeoff decisions as well as the impact of those decisions on public and private stakeholders. Drawing upon research in economics, marketing, psychology, and public policy as well as engineering and design optimization, the lab pursues three primary thrust areas:
- Provide designers with a better understanding of how diverse consumer preferences and economics affect their decisions so that designs can be optimized with business objectives, such as profitability, in mind;
- Provide policymakers with methods to identify and predict probable market design responses to regulation and identify potential impacts on producers, users, society, and the environment; and
- Develop fundamental theory and mathematical algorithms with application to systems, design, and the above objectives.
Design of Open Engineering Systems
Institution: University at Buffalo
Director: Kemper Lewis
Engineering Design and Optimization Group
Institution: Penn State
Director: Timothy Simpson
Enterprise Systems Laboratory
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Director: Harrison Kim
Green Design Institute
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Director: Lester Lave
The Green Design Institute is a major interdisciplinary research effort to make an impact on environmental quality through green design. The central idea of the institute is to form partnerships with companies, government agencies and foundations to develop pioneering design, management, manufacturing, and regulatory processes that can improve environmental quality and product quality while enhancing economic development.
Carnegie Mellon researchers are working to address the regulatory issues that shape the global marketplace. Our research partners will have access to policy and management tools for environmentally conscious manufacturing and product and process design, as well as opportunities to explore comprehensive solutions to problems such as hazardous emissions, use of toxic materials and inefficient energy usage.
The institute has roots in two existing Carnegie Mellon centers: The Engineering Design Research Center, an internationally recognized NSF center of excellence established in 1986 to support more efficient and cost-effective designs in industry; The Environmental Institute, a university-wide organization bringing together faculty, research staff and students to work on environmental and educational activities.
Through the Green Design Institute, we are solving problems and building tools that help businesses accomplish more with less. Our focus is on developing practical pollution prevention technologies and lowering costs, by recycling scarce resources, using fewer raw materials and creating better products. Creative engineering and science can produce products and processes that both cost less and pose fewer threats to workers, consumers and the environment. By joining in partnership with Carnegie Mellon, businesses will gain the tools they need to be competitive in the new environmental era.
Integrated Design Automation Laboratory
Institution: Northwestern University
Director: Wei Chen
Integrated Design Innovation Group
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Director: Jonathan Cagan
Optimal Design Laboratory
Institution: University of Michigan
Director: Panos Papalambros
The Optimal Design Lab is dedicated to research in design methods and tools that improve the design process and the quality of designed artifacts. Our design process paradigm uses decision-making models to describe design alternatives, and mathematical methods that search the design space for the best design among all possible design options – the "optimal" design.
More recently our research has focused on design methods for large complex systems, including decomposition and coordination strategies, surrogate model approximations, product families, and integrated artifact design and control. In the context of a quantitative approach to product development, we study how engineering design interfaces with industrial design, art, conceptual design, artificial intelligence, finance, organizational design, marketing, and psychology. Application domains include automotive design, specifically hybrid and alternative vehicles, structural design, electromagnetic design, specifically antennas, and architectural design.
Whatever term of fashion may have come upon us over time to describe our research, our commitment has remained the same: to study design as a process conducted by humans aiming at improving the human condition, and to employ a pragmatic but rigorous approach as best we know how.
Product Development Research Laboratory
Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Director: Yassine, Ali
Systems Realization Laboratory
Institution: Georgia Tech
Director: Farrokh Mistree
