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The Smart Product Design Lab is headed by Prof. Ed Carryer.
• The lab occupies new space in the Thornton Center.
• The emphasis is on projects that integrate mechanical, software and electronic hardware design and teach students how to make appropriate trade-offs among these technologies.
• The Smart Products courses at the graduate and undergradute levels are consistently highly rated and have become a dominant element of the design curriculum.
• A course involving industry-sponsored projects has recently been added to the graduate program.