August 2003
CDR researchers present at ICED '03
Director Larry Leifer, Associate Director Ade Mabogunje, Research Associate Özgür Eris, and PhD candidates Andrew Milne and John Feland attended the 14th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED '03), in Stockholm. Papers co- or solely-authored by CDR's entourage:
- Distributed Team Innovation - A Framework for Distributed Product Development (Mabogunje, Leifer, et al)
- Asking Generative Design Questions: A Fundamental Cognitive Mechanism in Design Thinking (Eris)
- The iLoft Project: A Technologically Advanced Collaborative Design Workspace as Research Instrument (Milne, Winograd)
- Innovation Impact Map: An Opportunity Evaluation Tool (Feland)
A copy of the proceedings will be online soon.
August 2003
Undergrads show how it's done
A team of undergraduate students under the tutelage of CDR PhD candidate Wendy Ju has culminated a very productive summer with the presentation of their project, the Map News Table, an interactive international news reader that makes use of several technologies to present a live view of the news as it is presented around the world. Lora Oehlberg, Corina Yen, Joanna Gubman, and Monica Miller presented their work to the assembled DesignX grad students and faculty, conducted user studies, and left us in awe. Congragulations! For a peek at the project, see their project homepage at http://ix.stanford.edu/.
July 2003
Will Provancher, PhD signs on as CDR PostDoc
Following an illustrious career as PhD candidate in Mark Cutkosky's Dexterous Manipulation Lab, Dr Provancher has decided to remain with us a little longer in the capacity of Post-Doctoral researcher. He will be focusing primarily on sensorized feet for the RiSE project, to develop climbing robots for unstructured environments. Will's dissertation is available online.
July 2003
Weston Griffin, PhD
We are pleased to announce that Wes Griffin of the Dexterous Manipulation Lab has completed his PhD and will be pursuing his career with GE Research in upstate New York. Just in time to enjoy the leaf show. His dissertation is available online.
February 2003
Joint Project with U. Strathclyde
With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF, US) and the The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC, UK), CDR has engaged in a multi-year project to "fundamentally change the way design engineering is taught by combining the use of digital libraries with virtual design studios". The DIDET project, for Digital Libraries for Distributed Innovative Design Education and Teamwork, is staffed at CDR by Larry Leifer (Stanford PI), Ade Mabogunje, and Özgür Eris, with Dr. George Toye as consulting Chief Technologist. Visit the main website for the DIDET project.
October 2002
Research in Engineering Education
Prof Sheri Sheppard is the Stanford PI and leads the Longitudal Studies segment of a multi-year, multi-university project whith undertakes to improve engineering education. The Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE) is headquartered at the University of Washington. Partners in this NSF-funded, multi-university endeavor include the Colorado School of Mines, Howard University, Stanford, and the University of Minnesota.
September, 2002
Özgür Eris, PhD, is CDR's newest Research Associate
Following successful defense of his disssertation last month, Ozgur has accepted a full-time staff position as Research Associate. Özgür's dissertation will be published shortly in book form by Kluwer Academic Publishers.