[edit] Our Philosophy
| Welcome to the Clemson Engineering Design Applications and Research (CEDAR) Group in Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Our research group is dedicated to exploring issues related to mechanical engineering design. We explore topics ranging from informatics to design education, creativity to decision making, collaboration to solid modeling, metrology to optimization, and packaging to complexity. As a research group we are dedicated to excellence and integrity. We are actively publishing the results of our work in internationally recognized journals and conferences to share our findings - we feel that it is our moral duty and responsibility; not for or own betterment. Our group's philosophy is to push the state of the art in design while graduating design practitioners, design researchers, and design tool developers. We realize that our main contribution in moving the field of design forward does not come from commercialization of our published research. Rather, our most important impact, our most valuable product, is our students. We strive to train our students to contribute significantly once they enter industry. This training includes academic, research, and social training. We seek to create a true "Renaissance Man (or Woman)" that is capable of looking at seemingly unsolvable problems, finding the core essence of the problems, creating an approach to resolving the problem, and finally to intelligibly communicate the solution to the customer.
We welcome all opportunities for collaboration, be that with companies through sponsored project development, with federal agencies through sponsored research, with indusry through internships, or with individuals through consulting. If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please contact the lab directors:
March 2012 Newsletter
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NSF Workshop 2011 August 27, 2011 @ Washington, DC (preceding ASME IDETC and CIE Conference)
Wind tunnels for Elementary Schools
- CEDE 2011 - Winter December 9, 2011 @ Clemson University - Fluor Daniel Engineering Innovation Building
- CEDE 2011 - Spring April 29, 2011 @ Clemson University - Fluor Daniel Engineering Innovation Building
CEDE 2010 May
[edit] Featured Work
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 Dr. Summers and Ajit Kanda speak to elementary children at "Paws for Safety" |
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[edit] Current Announcements
May 13, 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Greg Mocko for being promoted with tenure to Associate Professor (effective Aug. 15, 2012)
April 20, 2012: Congratulations to Eric Owensby for successfully defending his MS Thesis.
March 20, 2012: Thanks to Shraddha Joshi, Aravind Shanthakumar, and Dani George for helping with a wind tunnel lesson for the third graders at Anderson Midway Elementary.
March 14, 2012: Congratulations to David Griese for sucessfully defending his MS Thesis.
January 9, 2012: Congratulations to Beshoy Morkos for sucessfully defending his PHD Dissertation.
January 6, 2012: Congratulations to Vikrant Rayate for successfully defending his MS Thesis.
December 14, 2011: Congratulations to Michael Miller for successfully defending his MS Thesis.
November 29, 2011: Congratulations to Ben Caldwell for successfully defending his PhD Dissertation.
October 24, 2011: Congratulations to Prabhu Shankar for successfully defending his PhD Dissertation.
September 5, 2011: Congratulations to Chiradeep Sen for successfully defending his PhD Dissertation.
July 19, 2011 : Congratulations to Jun Hu, David Griese, Ben Caldwell, James Mathieson, and Vikrant Rayate for receiving the NSF/ASME Design Essay Travel Stipend.
April 22, 2011 : Congratulations to Jesse Schultz and James Mathieson for successfully defending their MS Thesis.
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Past Announcements
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[edit] Upcoming Conferences
SAE World Congress: April 2-14, 2011, Detroit, MI (paper due: Sept. 30, 2010)
- 2 abstracts subitted (Namouz, Mocko, Ju, Summers)
ICoRD'11: Jan. 10-12, 2011, Bangalore, India (abstracts due: April 15; papers due: July 1)
International Conference on Manufacturing Automation: Dec. 13-15, 2010, Hong Kong (papers due: May 30)
- 2 papers (Mathieson, Wallace, Namouz, Mocko, Summers)
ASME Congress: Nov. 12-18, 2010, Vancouver, Canada, (full papers due: May 31, 2010)
- 1 paper submitted (Ju, Summers)
ANNIE: Nov. 1-3, 2010, St. Louis, Mo (abstracts due: April 23; full papers due: May 28)
Virtual Concept: Oct. 20-22, 2010, Bordeaux, France (full papers due: May 14, 2010)
- 1 paper submitted (Morkos, Summers, Fadel)
ASME IDETC/CIE Conference: Aug. 15-18, 2010, Montreal, Canada (submissions completed)
- 16 papers (McLellan, Mathieson, Berglind, Schultz, Palmer, Shankar, Sen, Caldwell, Morkos, Joshi, Kolla, Ma, Ju, Mocko, Summers, Fadel, Ziegert)
Capstone Conference: June 7-9, 2010, Boulder, CO (submissions completed)
- 2 papers (Morkos, Joshi, Summers)
ASME WinVR Conference: May 12-14, 2010, Ames, IA (submissions completed)
- 1 paper (Mathieson, Summers)
SAE World Congress: April 13-15, 2010, Detroit, MI (submissions completed)
- 8 papers (Ma, Ju, Summers, Fadel, Berglind, Reeves, Mathieson, Kolla)
Tools and Methods for Competitive Engineering: April 12-16, 2010, Ancona, Italy (submissions completed)
- 5 papers (Caldwell, Lamar, Morkos, Joshi, Hannah, Sen, Mocko, Summers)
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[edit] Recent Papers
- Sen, C., Caldwell, B., Summers, J., Mocko, G., (2010), "Evaluation of the Functional Basis Using an Information Theoretic Approach", Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis, and Manufacturing, vol. 24, no.1, pp. 87-105, doi:10.1017/S0890060409990187 link.
- Summers, J., Shah, J., (2010), "Mechanical Engineering Design Complexity Metrics: Size, Coupling, and Solvability", Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 132, no. 2, pp. 021004-1, doi:10.1115/1.4000759 link.
- Shankar, P., Morkos, B., Summers, J., (2010), “A Hierarchical Modeling Scheme with Non-Functional Requirements”, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, CIE-CAPPD, Montreal, Canada, August, 2010, DETC2010-28544.
- Shankar, P., Ju, J., Summers, J., (2010), “Design of Sinusoidal Auxetic Structures for High Shear Flexure”, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, CIE-AMS, Montreal, Canada, August, 2010, DETC2010-28545.
- Kolla, A., Ju, J., Summers, J., Fadel, G., Ziegert, J., (2010), “Design of Chiral Honeycomb Meso-structures for High Shear Flexure”, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Montreal, Canada, August 15-18, 2010, IDETC 2010/DAC-28557.
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