We conduct and facilitate workshops and outreach programs with our extended partners including museums, university programs such as GERI, and libraries. We help children learn science and engineering through designing, making and playing with toys. C Design labs focusses on toy design as a way to have both fun and also learn engineering through experiencing basic concepts in physics. Various forms of prototyping to design and make including 3D printing, laser cutting, and use of everyday materials are emphasized. We also regularly conduct sketch makers workshops.
MakerFaire Bay Area
The C-Design Lab at the MakerFaire (Bay Area), an event that attracts thousands of individuals from different parts of the United States. In collaboration with ZeroUI, we showcased the lab’s research on gesture based virtual pottery, clay modeling, and...
Franklin Township Middle School Outreach – February 23rd, 2013
The workshop was part of an “introduction to engineering” tour conducted for Franklin Township Middle School on Friday, April 26, 2013. Around 50 students attended, and on the design leg of their tour, were introduced to sketching, aspects of toy design,...
Makers’ Faire 2012
In 2012, our lab represented Purdue for the first time at the annual Makers’ Faire in San Mateo, California. We taught sketching workshops for well over 200 people over 2...
NERF Blaster Dissections
In 2012, we were invited to lead a workshop in ME 297 (How Stuff Works) for NERF blasters. We brought blasters for the students to take apart. After the students took the blasters apart, they created a function tree to describe how it works. They were then shown...
