[C-Blog] Purdue Engineering Blog – What the Media Gets Wrong about Robots – by Dr. Karthik Ramani

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Mar 8, 2019 | C-Blog, Karthik Ramani

The media paints a grim picture of an America in which automation is, in the words of a recent New York Times article, “flushing workers without a college degree out of productive industries.” This feeds the overwrought narrative — brought to life vividly by film,...

Lafayette Mini Maker Faire at Sunnyside Intermedite School on March 2nd 2019, 10am-3pm

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Feb 28, 2019 | News

On March 2 2019, C Design Lab will participate in Lafayette Mini Make Faire at Sunnyside Intermediate School from 10am to 3pm. The address is: 530 N 26th Street, Lafayette, IN 47904 More information about Lafayette Mini Maker Faire can be found here:...

Ana, Luis, Terrell, and Xun passed the Ph.D. Area Exam

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Feb 28, 2019 | News

Congratulations to Ana, Luis, Terrell, and Xun for having passed the Ph.D. Area Exam!  

Shape Structuralizer: Design, Fabrication, and User-driven Iterative Refinement of 3D Mesh Models

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Feb 11, 2019 | 2019, Featured Publications, Karthik Ramani, Recent Publications, Subramanian Chidambaram, Yunbo Zhang

Current Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools lack proper support for guiding novice users towards designs ready for fabrication. We propose Shape Structuralizer (SS), an interactive design support system that repurposes surface models into structural constructions using...

Manufacturing Research Seminar Series – Smart Manufacturing February 15

by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Feb 8, 2019 | Karthik Ramani, News

Professor Karthik Ramani is going to provide an invited lecture at University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in Smart Manufacturing on February 15 2019. Click here for more details…