AI Engine - Cummins
AI for Engineering Drawings
Description:
This AI Engine project with Cummins focuses on using artificial intelligence to improve how engineering drawings are interpreted, reviewed, and understood. Cummins is a global power solutions leader headquartered in Columbus, Indiana, with technologies and services that support engines, power systems, components, distribution, and zero-emissions solutions through Accelera by Cummins. The company’s broader mission is to make people’s lives better by powering a more prosperous world, while innovating for customers to power their success.
The project, AI for Engineering Drawings, explores how AI can help identify important regions within engineering drawings, including views, tables, notes, title blocks, dimensions, and revision blocks. This drawing-structure focus supports faster recognition of how drawings are organized and where key information is located. The project also examines engineering-content understanding, including how AI capabilities could answer questions, extract dimensions, flag potential issues, and compare revisions.
Students will evaluate model approaches, document what works, and recommend practical next steps for creating a scalable drawing-understanding workflow. The work combines supervised learning on labeled drawings with broader AI reasoning over drawing content. The goal is to support faster, more consistent review of engineering drawings while helping students gain applied experience with AI methods in a real industrial engineering context.
Pre-requisite knowledge/skills:
- Open to sophomores through seniors
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