A center located at Stanford University, dedicated to the development of advanced tools and methods to promote superior design and manufacturing of products. A laboratory at Stanford University that houses the Shape Deposition Manufacturing process - capable of building fully-dense layered parts out of metals, ceramics and plastic. A 10,500 sq. feet class 100 clean room facility housing state-of-the-art lithography, etching and wet-processing equipment dedicated to the fabrication of nanostructures. It is affiliated with the Stanford Center for Integrated Systems. A National Science Foundation research center located at Carnegie Mellon University with a mission to create and disseminate cross-disciplinary design methodologies. Birthplace of the Shape Deposition process which houses a lab for continuing advanced research into 3D layered manufacturing - most notably - embedded electronics. Located at Carnegie Mellon University.