ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) was proud to join with IEEE and the U.S. Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus to bring industry leaders together on Capitol Hill to discuss America's future workforce development needs in the...
Purdue professor foresees AI as catalyst for transformation in manufacturing and workforce
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – In the midst of rapid artificial intelligence expansion, Purdue engineering professor Karthik Ramani offers a positive perspective. He believes AI holds immense potential for bolstering manufacturing competitiveness,...
Convergence Master’s Thesis Graduate and Veo Co-founder Edwin Tan officially launches the Veo fleet at Purdue University
Veo is a Purdue-connected micromobility company with locations in over 50 cities. The cofounders were Purdue students when they created the company and worked with Purdue Research Foundation to launch their startup. Join the cofounders Candice Xie...
Dr. Jitendra Malik discusses whether Computer Vision and Robotics are amenable to ChatGPTification in a panel moderated by Dr. Karthik Ramani
Dr. Jitendra Malik, a renowned computer vision and machine learning researcher, recently joined Purdue University faculty in a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Karthik Ramani, on the topic of "Is Computer Vision and Robotics amenable to...
Purdue Table Tennis Club ping-pongs closer to a national title!
The Purdue Table Tennis Club recently placed first in the NCTTA Fall Divisional Tournament, strengthening the team's chances of competing in the regional and national competitions. "Anyone in the community can play," Karthik Ramani, the Donald W....
GesturAR publication receives the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at UIST 2021!
"GesturAR: An Authoring System for Creating Freehand Interactive Augmented Reality Applications" receives the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award (Top 5% of the accepted paper) in the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software &...
Terrell Glenn earns First Place Price for his presentation at the National GEM Consortium’s 45th Annual Board Meeting and Conference
Terrell Glenn, one of our lab's senior Doctoral Candidates, traveled to Houston, TX where the National GEM Consortium hosted its 45th Annual Board Meeting and Conference on September 9-11, 2021, at the JW Marriott Houston by the Galleria. While at...
National Manufacturing Day: Professor Karthik Ramani writes an op-ed
Professor Karthik Ramani authored an opinion piece investigating how manufacturing has changed, its impact on economies and how it might impact educating and training future generations. This op-ed was published on National Manufacturing Day, and...
MAYU strives to inspire ethical choices, responsibility and sustainability within luxury fashion without compromise
Featuring Mayura Davda-Shah, a C Design Lab undergraduate alumni and the Co-founder & Creative Director at MAYU. MAYU’s mission is to inspire ethical choices, imbibe responsibility and sustainability within luxury fashion and lifestyle without...
Orlando Murcia Perdomo from the Nexo Global Program completes 6 months of AR-IoT research
Orlando Murcia Perdomo from the Nexo Global Program has completed his visit to the United States and left back to Colombia. Orlando was supervised by Terrell Glenn and worked in the C Design Lab, where he made many invaluable contributions to...
Veo Raises $16 Million in Funding to Scale Across the U.S., Paving the Way to Profitable, Sustainable Micromobility
Veo, the first profitable micromobility company, today announced the closing of a $16 million Series A funding round led by Autotech Ventures, with participation from UP.Partners, FJ Labs, and Interplay Ventures. Veo will use the funds to expand...
Dee Devashri Vagholkar is awarded the Grace Hopper Student Scholarship
Convergence Design Lab student Dee Devashri Vagholkar has been awarded the prestigious Grace Hopper Student Scholarship! https://anitab.org/
Professor Karthik Ramani participates in Chronicle’s Remote and Hands On: Trends in a New Way to Learn Panel
Professor Karthik Ramani participated in The Chronicle for Higher Education's Remote and Hands On: Trends in a New Way to Learn panel on February 26th, 2021. The event is a little over an hour. The entire program is available online and requires a...
Digital Engineering 24/7 : Purdue University Uses Machine Learning to Classify Mechanical Objects
Professor Karthik Ramani was interviewed by Kenneth Wong of Digital Engineering 24/7 regarding the recent release of the Mechanical Component Benchmark dataset. You can listen to Professor Ramani's interview on Digital Engineering's web site:...
Inside Indiana Business: Purdue’s Convergence Design Lab’s AR/VR Future of Work & Training SkillXR System
WEST LAFAYETTE - A Purdue University team has entered into a $5 million cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation to create an augmented and virtual reality experience prototype called Skill-XR. The university says the technology...
Seminar: Augmenting Humans in Design Fabrication, Robotics, and Workflows Through Spatially Aware Interfaces
Karthik Ramani Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University November 6, 2020 1PM – 2PM (CDT) Seminar will be presented via Zoom (https://auburn.zoom.us/j/4465550646) Augmenting Humans in Design...
U.S. Army to use Vizseek (Lab Spinoff) technology to locate critical data in engineering drawings
One of our Lab's spinoffs, VizSeek, is helping play a significant role in helping the Department of Defense manage its digital assets to protect the United States. Imaginestics LLC, a software company headquartered in the Purdue Research Park West...
Seminar: Augmenting Humans in Design Fabrication, Robotics, and Workflows Through Spatially Aware Interfaces
Karthik Ramani Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University Friday, October 16, 2020 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm Seminar will be presented via Zoom Augmenting Humans in Design Fabrication, Robotics, and Workflows...
SkillXR: Augmented reality to provide new skills for manufacturing workforce education
Workforce education in manufacturing has traditionally been very low-tech: in-person teaching sessions, one-on-one apprenticeship, written manuals, and perhaps a video. But to keep pace with an increasing skills gap, some manufacturers are now...
Congratulations to Subramanian Chidambaram for receiving the 2020 Graduate School Mentoring Award for Graduate Students
Subramanian Chidambaram was named a co-recipient of the 2020 Purdue Graduate School Mentoring Award for Graduate Students. His impressive work with peer mentoring was recognized by the Graduate School. Purdue University appreciated the commitment...
Hands-on with augmented reality in remote classrooms
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — During the COVID-19 pandemic, remote education has forced teachers to use every tool in their toolbox. But augmented reality, which allows both visual and hands-on instruction from any setting, remains out of reach for most...
2019-20 Engineering Graduate Program Awards
Congratulations are in order! Two of the C-Design Lab Team Members, Subramanian Chidambaram and Terrell Glenn, were recently recognized for some of their contributions to the greater Purdue community. Sub was awarded the Magoon for his...
Sketch Making for Design Thinking
The C-Design Lab has made course material from ME553 available to the world. Have you ever wanted to take your ideas and communicate them visually? Do you have an idea you want to iterate on? Our Sketch Making for Design Thinking series of videos...
Professor Karthik Ramani Ratified as Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor
Professor Karthik Ramani elevated to Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor by Board of Trustees on Friday (Feb. 7). Below is Distinguished Professor Karthik Ramani's statements at the February 7th Board of Trustees meeting about Purdue, the...
Four paper submissions are accepted in CHI 2020
This year, four paper submissions from Convergence Design Lab were accepted in the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). The four papers are listed below and the full papers will be released later. For more information about...
C Design Lab at UIST 2019, New Orleans
From Oct 21 to Oct 23, Professor Ramani, the C Design Lab members, and two alumni Ke Huo (currently works at Facebook) and Sang Ho Yoon (currently works at Microsoft) attended the 32nd ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST...
The New Factory Floor
“A lot of these technologies have become much cheaper, while sensors and electronics are much more powerful,” says Karthik Ramani, a mechanical engineering professor at Purdue University. “Now we are bringing them down [in cost] for people to...
The visitors of EDSE workshop visited C Design Lab and the toy museum with Professor Ramani on Sunday
Last Sunday, Professor Ramani gave the visitors to the 2019 Workshop for NSF Engineering Design and Systems Engineering (EDSE) a warm reception and showed them around the Convergence Design Lab and the toy museum.
2019 NSF Workshop for Engineering Design and Systems Engineering (EDSE)
October 7-8, 2019 at Armstrong Hall, Purdue University
APMS 2019 Conference Keynote: Redesigning Manufacturing Machines, Design Tools, and Robotics for Smart Human Augmented Spatial Interfaces
Redesigning Manufacturing Machines, Design Tools, and Robotics for Smart Human Augmented Spatial Interfaces - by Dr. Karthik Ramani Abstract: The convergence of many factors such as low-cost sensors, electronics, computing, fabrication, and more...
William Bernstein, one of the C Design Lab Alumni, receives ASME 2019 CIE Young Engineer Award
William Bernstein is recognized as a promising young investigator who is making outstanding contributions to the progress in the application of computers in engineering. Click here for more information about the award. Click here for William...
CIE Keynote: Professor Karthik Ramani – Redesigning Manufacturing Machines, Design Tools, and Robotics for Smart Human Augmented Spatial Interfaces
IDETC-CIE Conference: https://event.asme.org/IDETC-CIE Keynote Speakers: https://event.asme.org/Events/media/library/resources/idetc-cie/IDETC-Keynote-Speakers.pdf
Congratulations to Dr. Ke Huo for receiving his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering!
Click here for publications of Dr. Ke Huo.
Signal Processing Advances Consumer Electronics: New Research Impacts and Improves the Way Users Interact with Mobile and Wearable Devices in Daily Life
The Special Report "Signal Processing Advances Consumer Electronics" in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (Volume 36, Issue 3, May 2019) talked about "iSoft", a soft, stretchable sensor developed by one of the C Design Lab alumni, Sang Ho Yoon....
Toy Fair celebrates Purdue’s 150th anniversary
Officially, the ME444 class is called “Computer-Aided Design,” but everyone knows it as the Toy Design class. Students learn concept generation, CAD design, finite element analysis, and rapid prototyping, and other skills necessary to work in...
Toy Fair to showcase ‘Purdue 150’ toys designed by engineering students
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Remember when your parents told you to “share your toys” with others? Now, Purdue mechanical engineering students are sharing their toys with the public as part of an annual toy fair that coincides with Purdue’s 150th...
Purdue engineering student recruiting kids to pursue STEAM careers
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – It’s only a matter of time before Terrell Glenn achieves his doctoral degree in engineering. However, he noticed that in his lab group there was a shortage in people that looked like him. “Not only am I the only American, I’m...
Congratulations to Pawan Rao for receiving the 2019 Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award
Pawan Rao receives the 2019 Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching for his contribution as TA for ME444 (Fall-18) and ME553 (Spring-18 & 19). This award recognizes outstanding Teaching Assistants and Instructors in...
C Design Lab at the Greater Lafayette Mini Maker Faire 2019
One more year the C-Design Lab is part of the Greater Lafayette Mini Maker Fair, an event that attracts hundreds of children and makers. This year, people were able to have a feeling of design methods, fabrication techniques, and digital...
Lafayette Mini Maker Faire at Sunnyside Intermedite School on March 2nd 2019, 10am-3pm
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...
Ana, Luis, Terrell, and Xun passed the Ph.D. Area Exam
Congratulations to Ana, Luis, Terrell, and Xun for having passed the Ph.D. Area Exam!
Manufacturing Research Seminar Series – Smart Manufacturing February 15
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...
Tech Knowledge Is Power – by Mung Chiang, Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University
"As our world is re-engineered, more people need to learn how engineers analyze, design and operate. Engineering concepts such as modular design and feedback control can become part of citizens' vernacular, just like inflation and trade deficit...
Manufacturing a Future – Indiana Chamber of Commerce BizVoice highlights NSF Factory of the Future project in Jan/Feb 2019 publication
Indiana Chamber of Commerce BizVoice (Click here to open the website) highlights NSF Factory of the Future project in January/February 2019 publication. The goal of Factory of the Future is to develop new technologies that will allow manufacturers...
Alumni Success Story – You Wu – Robot Daisy and Pipe Leak Detection
This little robot swims through pipes and finds out if they’re leaking Lighthouse, U.S. winner of the James Dyson Award, looks like a badminton birdie and detects the suction of water leaving pipes–which is a lot of water that we could put to...
Convergence Design Lab to prepare manufacturers, workers for the ‘factory of the future’
Factory of the Future and the Future of Work WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Today's manufacturers struggle to keep pace with rapid changes in technology because of the inability to adapt and the new skills required of their workforce. The Future of Work...
Purdue Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series – Professor Neil Gershenfeld
Prof. Neil Gershenfeld is the Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. His unique laboratory is breaking down boundaries between the digital and physical worlds, from creating molecular quantum computers to virtuosic musical instruments....
Ana Villanueva has been accepted into the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop at MIT
Ana Villanueva has been accepted into the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 25-26, 2018. The workshop is aimed at women graduate students and postdocs considering future careers...
2017 ASME Editors’ Choice Award to ‘The Design for Additive Manufacturing Worksheet’ Publication
ASME's Journal of Mechanical Design has given its 2017 Editors' Choice Award to The Design for Additive Manufacturing Worksheet by Joran Booth, Jeffrey Alperovich, Pratik Chawla, Jiayan Ma, Tahira Reid, and Karthik Ramani. Four criteria were used...
Plain2Fun Publication Receives an Honorable Mention at DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) Conference
Plain2Fun: Augmenting Ordinary Objects with Interactive Functions by Auto-Fabricating Surface Painted Circuits; receives an honorable mention among 400+ total submissions at the proceedings of the 2018 DIS Designing Interactive Systems Conference,...