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Faculty and their research interests are profiled in brief below. Click on the faculty member's name to see their home page which contains more detailed information. Send inquiries directly to faculty members by clicking on their email addresses, or by visiting them during their current Office Hours. Information on Research Group Meetings, when open to non-lab
members, is posted at the end of each faculty member's profile. Professor Banny Banerjee is the Director of Stanford’s Joint Program in Design. He is interested in “Design Futures”: ways that design can help shape desirable futures involving technology, sustainability and the dynamics of change. He has a worked in the fields of architecture, design, structural engineering, energy, mechanical engineering, emerging economies, sustainability, and software design. He also maintains an active interest in interactive art. Office: Terman 513 Professor David Beach teaches the integration of design and manufacturing. As the Director of the Product Realization Laboratory, his interests include design and manufacturing processes, tools, and applications. Courses taught recently include Manufacturing & Design, Computer Aided Product Creation, Precision Engineering, and Good Products-Bad Products. Beach wants to help educate students who will create new products and the organizations that create them. Office: Terman 515 Consulting Professor Bill Burnett is the executive director of the Product Design Program focusing on the successful integration of technical, human, aesthetic, and business concerns for innovation in design. Office: Terman 565 Professor Ed Carryer has interests in the areas of design of Electro-Mechanical Systems (Mechatronics), measurement systems and engineering education. He teaches courses in the Smart Product Design program and is director of the Smart Product Design Laboratory. Office: Terman 511 Professor Mark
Cutkosky applies theoretical analyses, simulations and experiments
to the design and control of robotic hands and small, bio-inspired
robots. Prof. Cutkosky's work on sensitive mechanical hands is featured
in this Stanford
Magazine article. His bio-inspired robots have featured in
various popular media. In manufacturing, his work focuses on
the application of techniques from artificial intelligence to achieve
concurrent product and process design.Office: Terman 523 Professor Emeritus Daniel DeBra does research and teaching in the area of control systems. He has a strong interest in precision manufacturing and also in fluid power control. He is the Director of the Guidance and Control Laboratory. Office: Durand 277 Rolf Arne Faste ~ 1943-2003 Professor Chris Gerdes' research centers on the generation and simplification of dynamic models for mechanical systems and the use of these models in the design of complex systems. Of particular interest are the integrated design and control of mechanical devices (design for controllability) and the application of advanced analysis and control techniques to ground vehicle design. Prof. Gerdes Chris Gerdes was awarded a 2002 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) on May 5, 2004. Office: Terman 540 Professor Kos
Ishii's research develops methods and tools to improve the
life-cycle quality of mechanical and electromechanical systems.
He applies optimization and artificial intelligence techniques to
support design and manufacturing decisions with emphasis on robust
design for manufacture, serviceability and reliability design, and
environmentally conscious design and manufacturing. Prof. Ishii
is hosted a special short course on Ecodesign
in September 1999. Office: Terman 509 Professor David Kelley is interested in new product development methodology from inception to production with focus on the application of technology in satisfying user need. He teaches classes in the Product Design Program. Prof. Kelley is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Office: Terman 505 Professor
Thomas Kenny is interested in the design and development
of micromechanical sensors based on silicon micromachining and other
new fabrication technologies which are then used to improve the
sensing capabilities of integrated instruments. He is also interested
in the fundamental properties of micromechanical structures. He
teaches classes in the Smart Product Design Program. Office: Terman
540 Professor Larry
Leifer is the Director of the Center
for Design Research (School of Engineering). Leifer's design
thinking and informatics research is concerned with understanding,
supporting and improving design practice, including issues in research
methodology, team dynamics (local and global), innovation leadership,
interactive design spaces, collaboration technology, and design-for-wellbeing.
Office: Terman 507 Senior Lecturer Craig Milroy manages the Product Realization Lab and is developing courses in the Medical Device field. Office: Bldg 610 Consulting Professor Paul Mitiguy teaches Dynamic Systems and Advanced Dynamics and works in virtual product development. Office: Terman 550. Phone 650-725-1596. Professor Drew Nelson teaches courses in mechanical design, fatigue design and analysis, and experimental stress analysis. He is actively engaged in research in these areas for both governmental agencies and industry. Office: Terman 517 Professor Gunter Niemeyer is interested in the dynamics and control of nonlinear systems and especially of robotic systems. He leads the Telerobotics Lab, focusing on human-in-the-loop robotics and teleoperation, where a human operator becomes part of the feedback system. This includes the design and analysis of the user interface, haptic feedback, as well as the effects of delayed network transmissions, for example as found in Internet-based applications. Dr. Niemeyer's recent work at Intuitive Surgical, Inc., applied teleoperation to surgical applications, helping to develop the daVinci Minimally Invasive Surgical System. This telerobotic system is now being used in both cardiac and abdominal procedures at over 50 hospitals on three continents. Office: Terman 525 Consulting Associate Professor Matt Ohline assists with the Smart Product Design Lab and curriculum. Office: Terman 542 Professor Fritz Prinz conducts research addressing a wide range of problems related to intelligent design, rapid prototyping, manufacturing and rapid tool generation. His work focuses on geometric modeling, including non-manifold geometrics and geometric abstractions. He is also Co-Director of AIM (Alliance for Integrated Manufacturing at Stanford), where his research effort is in the rapid prototyping of tooling. He is currently Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department. Office: Bldg 530 Rm 114 Professor Bernard Roth conducts research on the theoretical aspects of kinematics, developing practical application of the theory in the design of machines and mechanisms. He is also actively engaged in research in the areas of robotics, and the application of computer-aided design techniques. He teaches machine design, kinematics, robotics, group processes, and the societal aspects of technology. He often co-teaches summer workshops on creativity in engineering education. Office: Terman 519 Professor Sheri Sheppard applies finite element methods to study design problems. Of particular interest are residual stresses and their relationship to fatigue performance. She is currently using the technique to study thermal fatigue in leadfree solder connections.. She teaches undergraduate design courses and a graduate course in engineering analysis, and is leading an NSF-funded longitudinal study of engineering student development. She also serves as a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading a study of the pedagogy associated with engineering education, and was the 2006-07 Chair of the Stanford Faculty Senate. Office: Terman 503 Professor Ken Waldron has broad research interests in machine design and robotic systems. He has a particular interest in mobile robotic systems, notably those that use legged locomotion. He is also active in haptic simulation of surgical procedures, and the design and application of haptic systems in general. In common with others in the Division, he has an active interest in design methodology. Office: Terman 521 Professor Emeritus Douglass Wilde continues to study design optimization, engineering geometry and the pyschology of creativity.
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