Design and Manufacturing

Creating systems that perform. Designing products that matter.

Design and Manufacturing (D&M) research in ISE is at the forefront of advancing knowledge in emerging research areas that apply scientific methods to the conceptualization, refinement and realization of systems and products. The systems considered in D&M research fulfill specific human needs under physical, social, economic and environmental constraints, with implications in decision-making, design optimization, trade off analysis, and user-centered design. This area of research creates tools, methods and processes to optimize products or systems in a wide variety of domains with associated complexities:

• Bio-inspired compliant structures and mechanisms

• Robotics

• Co-design of physical and control systems 

• Sustainable product design 

• Global supply chain and product life cycle analysis

• Technology policy

D&M aims at forming a firm base for creating solutions that are adaptable, resilient and sustainable -  empowering industries to build smart products and more responsive systems that will serve to enhance the nation’s competency in a globally challenging environment.