by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Sep 1, 2018 | Karthik Ramani, News
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 in...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Sep 1, 2018 | Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, News, Tianyi Wang
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, June 9-13, 2018,...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Sep 1, 2018 | Ayan Sinha, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, News
Download: Nature – Gauss’s Law for networks directly reveals community boundaries
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Aug 22, 2018 | 2018, Ayan Sinha, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications
The study of network topology provides insight into the function and behavior of physical, social, and biological systems. A natural step towards discovering the organizing principles of these complex topologies is to identify a reduced network representation using...
by Convergence Design Lab Admin | Aug 21, 2018 | 2018, Devarajan Ramanujan, Karthik Ramani, Publications, Recent Publications
This study explores the use of mini-fabrication exercises for helping students learn design for rapid prototyping in computeraided design and prototyping courses in engineering curricula. To this end, we conducted mini-fabrication exercises in ME444—an undergraduate...
by Tianyi Wang | Jun 23, 2018 | 2018, Fabrication, Karthik Ramani, Karthik Ramani, Ke Huo, Pratik Chawla, Recent Publications, TANGIBLE, EMBEDDED & EMBODIED INTERFACES, Tianyi Wang
The growing makers’ community demands better supports for designing and fabricating interactive functional objects. Most of the current approaches focus on embedding desired functions within new objects. Instead, we advocate repurposing the existing objects and...
