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The Center for Design Research (CDR) was founded in the early 1980s by Prof. Larry Leifer. The lab was joined by Profs. Sheppard and Cutkosky in the mid 1980s. It employs two full-time research staff and approximately 20 graduate students.
- Research projects include the study of group design processes and the development of computer-aided tools to support design documentation, project coordination and concurrent engineering.
- Increasingly, CDR these tools are being tested in the design curriculum.
- CDR has joint projects with the Computer Science Department, the Manufacturing Modeling and Rapid Prototyping labs in ME, and industrial and government partners such as Xerox PARC and NASA AMES.
- CDR also maintains a series of in-house design projects in robotics and mechatronics that provide a rich source of design data.