The Resident Industrial Fellow (RIF) program gives direct access
to CDR's multicultural, multidisciplinary research environment.
Confronted with rapidly evolving design, development, and manufacturing
enterprise technologies, real solutions are found through direct
participation in both targeted and on-going research in our laboratories:
Design Research Lab
Haptics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab
Dynamic Design Lab
Engineering Education Lab
The RIF program at CDR was created to promote personal collaboration
between corporate staff and their academic counterparts, to develop
new enterprise research and development tools and a deeper understanding
of the technical culture that produces new products.
Corporate staff from research, development, manufacturing, and
management sectors are invited to work with CDR faculty, staff,
and PhD candidates at the interface between product-driven corporate
R&D and process-driven academic research.
Resident Fellows are provided with office space at the Center
for Design Research, in the center of the Stanford University
Campus and immediately adjacent to the Mechanical Engineering
Research Labs, which houses research in areas ranging from controls,
to nanotechnology, to biomechanical engineering. Fellows receive
the full support of CDR adminstrative, technical, and research
staff. Additionally, Fellows have access to Stanford University's
extensive library system, as well as to all athletic and recreational
facilities.
At CDR, projects include a combination of engineering design,
design tool development, and design process research. Your collaboration
in any or all of these areas is eagerly welcomed. Projects generally
last from 6 months to 2 years. Based on an initial proposal, the
research team is expected to refine the problem definition, develop
prototypes, and deliver a functional pre-beta product. Intellectual
property rights are shared between the University and the corporate
sponsor.
If you have specific questions regarding affiliation opportunities at the
Center for Design Research, please contact:
Judy Lee (judy at cdr.stanford.edu)
Administrative Coordinator
Center for Design Research
Bldg 02-560, 424 Panama Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-2232
Phone: (650) 723-9233
Fax: (650) 725-8475
