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, 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...
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: 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, 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...
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...
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 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, 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...
Convergence Design Lab student Dee Devashri Vagholkar has been awarded the prestigious Grace Hopper Student Scholarship! https://anitab.org/
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
“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...
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.
October 7-8, 2019 at Armstrong Hall, Purdue University
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 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...
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
Click here for publications of Dr. Ke Huo.
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Congratulations to Ana, Luis, Terrell, and Xun for having passed the Ph.D. Area Exam!
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 25-26, 2018. The workshop is aimed at women graduate students and postdocs considering future careers...
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: 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,...
Download: Nature - Gauss's Law for networks directly reveals community boundaries
Yuanzhi Cao and Zhuangying Xu, representing the C Design team, have won the 'Best Implementation Award' (by judges) at the student contest of 2017 UIST.