Our paper, The evolution, challenges, and future of knowledge representation in product design systems, is #1 on Elsevier's Top 25 hottest articles in Computer-Aided Design for the year 2013. The C Design Lab congratulates all authors...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A group of Purdue University students who created a soy-based, renewable and recyclable filament for 3D printing won the top prize in the annual Student Soybean Product Innovation Contest. The awards were announced at a...

A new interactive system puts a touch screen on any large surface. Originally published: Aug 13 2013 - 1:45pm  By: Karin Heineman, ISTV Executive Producer When it comes to digital gadgets, most of us are pros at swiping and typing on touchscreen...

Posted: Friday, June 14, 2013 10:00 am | Updated: 10:26 am, Mon Jun 17, 2013. By LOGAN JUDY Summer Reporter Iron Man’s Tony Stark’s beloved computer Jarvis may be closer than we thought. Shape-It-Up, a project designed to effectively...

In a current movie blockbuster, “Iron Man 3,” the titular hero can be seen working in his lab, using only hand gestures to move, create and manipulate 3-D images with the help of movie magic and a CGI supercomputer. At Purdue...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A new design tool interprets hand gestures, enabling designers and artists to create and modify three-dimensional shapes using only their hands as a "natural user interface" instead of keyboard and mouse. The tool,...

FROM THE APRIL 2013 ISSUE Creating a Touch-Screen on a Countertop By translating shapes into computerized images, this system can turn any surface into a touch-screen. By Gregory Mone|Monday, March 18, 2013 The next step in touch-screens may be to...

Updated: Friday, 12 Oct 2012, 8:15 PM EDT Published : Friday, 12 Oct 2012, 6:33 PM EDT Holly Campbell PURDUE UNIVERSITY, Ind. (WLFI) - Imagine every surface you touch becoming an interactive touch screen. Mechanical Engineering Professor Karthik...

One of the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards we told you about was a gesture-control interface for computers that eliminated the need for mouses (mice?) and keyboards, relying instead on finger and hand motions. Perhaps it is to be expected...

Sundar Murugappan is a quintessential Chennaiite who talks briskly as if in no mood to stop unless interrupted. The 27-year-old is a PhD from Purdue University where he spent many months studying "interactions" between human beings and computers,...

Building 3D models is hard, and using a traditional point-and-click mouse doesn't really do anything to enhance or simplify the process. To solve that dilemma, we're starting to see new R&D efforts that push the boundaries of model development...

You can design anything from vases to pagodas with this easy Kinect gestural app. All it takes is a bit of waving in the air and a few seconds. Gestural interfaces like the Leap promise a world in which we'll all be driving cars and flying planes...

This Research in Action article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Computer users created these shapes with Handy-Potter, a new design tool developed at the C Design Lab in the Purdue University School...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers have developed a design tool that enables people to create three-dimensional objects with their bare hands by using a depth-sensing camera and advanced software algorithms to interpret hand movements and...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers have shown how to create morphing mechanisms, robotic forms and shape-shifting sculptures from a single sheet of paper in a method reminiscent of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. The new method,...

Dr. Srikanth Devanathan, an alumni of Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering and now working at Simulia a Dassault Systemes brand, and Professor Karthik Ramani, were awarded the 2011 Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE)...

Barry Kudrowitz, an assistant professor of product design at the University of Minnesota, talks Friday with a class of Purdue students about play in West Lafayette. (By Brent Drinkut/Journal & Courier) Creativity injected into engineering...

Event Date: September 10, 2009 Karthik Ramani has been named the recipient of the 2009 Outstanding Commercialization Award for Purdue University Faculty. The Outstanding Commercialization Award is given to a Purdue tenure-track faculty member in...

Event Date: September 1, 2009 Going back to the drawing board is much easier now that researchers have developed a new type of design program called FEAsy. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Going back to the drawing board is much easier now that researchers...

Event Date: May 31, 2009 Computer-Aided Design was among the top performers according to the ranking of computer science journals. The journals were ranked according to citations per paper based on data provided by Thomson Reuters Essential Science...

PRECISE Shapelab's Paper,"Three-dimensional shape searching: State-of-the-art review and future trends" was awarded for the most cited paper,which is referenced 42 times between the date of publication and December 31, 2007. Papers for this...

Event Date: July 6, 2007 Mumbai News: Forget word-based search engines. Cutting-edge algorithm can hunt through online catalogues using only a sketch; researchers say technology could become mainstream so consumers could just draw to find an exact...

Event Date: March 7, 2007 The Thomas French Achievement Award is presented to alumni who have distinguished themselves as educators. Thomas French, an 1895 graduate of The Ohio State University, served as a professor of engineering drawing at his...

Event Date: February 28, 2007 PRECISE Shapelab's Paper,"Three-dimensional shape searching: State-of-the-art review and future trends" was awarded for the most cited paper. Papers for this distinction are determined solely on the basis of the...

Event Date: February 27, 2007 He will receive the award in the 5th annual Engineering Faculty Recognition Banquet. Attachments Faculty Research Excellence Award_2007.pdf

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=105851&org=NSF&from=news Working with support from the National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, Imaginestics, a company located in West Lafayette, Ind.,...

Today research in product development, manufacturing and supply networks are converging driven by the potential use of information science and technologies. This research coupled with business insight will have a fundamental impact on your...