Biorobotics and Dextrous Manipulation Laboratory (BDML)
Center for Design Research (CDR)
Design Informatics Laboratory (DIL)
Dynamic Design Lab (DDL)
Manufacturing Modeling Laboratory (MML)
Product Design Loft
Product Realization Laboratory (PRL)
Rapid Prototyping Laboratory for Energy and Biology (RPL)
Smart Product Design Laboratory (SPDL)
Stanford Micro-Structures & Sensors Laboratory (SMSSL)
Telerobotics Lab

The Biorobotics and Dextrous Manipulation Laboratory (Prof. Mark Cutkosky, PI) is affiliated with the Center for Design Research. BDML research activities include: modeling and control of dextrous manipulation with robotic and teleoperated hands; force and tactile feedback in telemanipulation and virtual environments; design and control of compliant "biomimetic" robots with embedded sensors and actuators.

The Center for Design Research (Prof. Larry Leifer, Director) is a community of scholars focused on understanding and augmenting engineering design innovation and design education. We are dedicated to facilitating individual creativity, understanding the team design process, and developing advanced tools and methods that promote superior design and manufacturing of products. We develop concepts and technical solutions for design thinking, concurrent engineering, distributed collaborative design, and design knowledge capture, indexing and re-use. We focus on methods and tools for improving the design of specific engineering systems, with research in structural integrity evaluation and system modeling, virtual design environments, biomimetic robots, haptic controls and telemanipulation, vehicle dynamics, and driver assistance systems

The Design Informatics Laboratory (Prof. Larry Leifer, PI) provides methods and tools for investigating the information handling behavior of individual design engineers and design teams. Areas of investigation include information systems that can respond to design inquiries, evolution of complex design language, and risk management via innovative exploration of the conceptual design space. With a special focus on globally distributed design teams, we seek to develop objective measures of design team performance, under various structured methodology conditions and using a variety of computational tools.

The Dynamic Design Lab (Prof. Chris Gerdes, PI) focuses on the use of dynamic modeling as a means of integrating mechanical design with automatic control and diagnostics. Many of the sponsored projects have an automotive application and the lab has a small fleet of full-scale and 1:4 scale vehicles for experimentation. The DDL is located in the back lab of Building 500.

The Manufacturing Modeling Laboratory (Prof. Kos Ishii, PI) is located in the Thornton Center for Engineering Management. MML research on design and manufacturing integration includes the fields of life-cycle engineering design, supply chain management, agent-based concurrent engineering, and design for manufacturability.

The Product Design Loft (Prof. David Kelley, Program Director) is a unique facility in which students in the Product Design Program develop their design projects.

The Product Realization Laboratory (Prof. Dave Beach, Director) is an invaluable Stanford resource offering prototype fabrication facilities in support of student design activities. "The Shops" offer traditional machining, woodworking, foundry, plastics molding, welding, finishing, and metrology tools. Additionally, state-of-the-art computer-aided drawing, manufacturing, and prototyping systems are available. Students do all of their own fabrication. All PRL resources, including instruction and coaching by staff, are available to Stanford affiliates as are a number of quarter-long courses which make use of the shop.

The focus of the Rapid Prototyping Laboratory for Energy and Biology (Prof. Fritz Prinz, PI) is on the design and fabrication of micro and nanoscale devices for energy and biology. Examples include fuel cells and bioreactors. Interest is in mass transport phenomena across thin membranes such as oxide films and lipid bi-layers. This research group studies electro-chemical phenomena with the help of Atomic Force Microscopy, Impedance Spectroscopy, and Quantum Modeling.

The Smart Product Design Laboratory (Prof. Ed Carryer, Director) supports microprocessor application projects related to ME218abcd.

The Stanford Micro-Structures and Sensors Laboratory (Prof. Tom Kenny, PI) is the setting for efforts to develop and fabricate novel mechanical structures. Basic research on the non-classical phenomena exhibited by micro structures is emphasized as well.