Friday, December 3, 2004
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Professor
Karthik Ramani
School
of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue
University
ÒAt the Heart of it All
New Ideas - New Technologies - New Markets - New ResearchÓ
Abstract:
The rapid development of
products and services fueled by the convergence of information systems and
other technologies marks the beginning of a new age. The explosion in
information and network-based innovations taking place over the next decade
will dwarf all previous market forecasts. The effects of this new age on
engineering, especially in product design and manufacturing: from concept through development with
suppliers, delivery and maintenance services are only at the beginning. PRECISE
is now positioned to play a key role in innovating for this new age, through
research, development and technology transfer at the interface of information
technologies, product-process and value chain design. Our research includes
development of frameworks and architectures for advice during early design,
product shape search, next generation product configuration, and mass
customization. We are also actively participating in acting as a catalyst to
building design- manufacturing networks and communities. Faculty with various background work
with the center based on project needs. They include management, computer
engineering and science, psychology, human-computer interfaces and
computational linguistics.