Faculty & Research
Faculty and their research interests are profiled in brief below. Click on the faculty member's name to see 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 Emeritus James Adams is interested in design and quality, creativity, and the interactions of society and technology. He is also involved in the relationship between design and manufacturing. Office: Terman 546
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 Assistant 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
Consulting 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 analyses, simulations, and experiments to the design and control of robotic hands, tactile sensors, and force-feedback devices for human/computer interaction. In manucturing, his work focuses on design tools for rapid prototyping. Recent applications of this work include small, biologically inspired robots with embedded sensors, actuators, and controllers. Office: Terman 523
Biomimetics Research Group Meeting:
F 11:15 in MERL 2nd floor conf. room (Bldg 660)
Haptics Research Group Meeting:
F 1:15 in MERL 132 (Bldg 660).
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
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. Check out this video of Shelley, an automous rally car developed by students at Stanford's Dynamic Design Lab and researchers at Volkswagen's Electrnoics Research Lab. Office: Terman 540
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
Kenny Research Group Meeting:
F 1:15, MERL Conf Rm (Bldg 660)
Non-regulars: Please email
in advance if you would like to attend
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
"Leifer's group" = "designX" meets W 5:30-7:00pm, 2nd floor
CDR (Bldg.560). Wine, cheese, and agenda-free discussion most weeks.
Senior Lecturer Craig Milroy is Co-Director of the Product Realization Laboratory. His concentration is on product conceptualization, and strategic planning during the design process. Craig teaches over four courses each year in design and engineering, including the first course at Stanford devoted solely to the development of medical devices. Office: Bldg 610
Consulting Professor Paul Mitiguy teaches Statics, Dynamics, Dynamic Systems, Classical & Advanced Dynamics, and Simulation of Biological structures and develops software for Computer-Aided Engineering. Office: Terman 527. Phone 650-346-9595.
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
Consulting Associate Professor Matt Ohline assists with the Smart Product Design Lab and curriculum. Office: Terman 542
Professor Fritz Prinz conducts research focusing on the design and fabrication of micro and nanoscale devices for energy and biology. Examples include fuel cells and bioreactors. He is interested in mass transport phenomena across thin membranes such as oxide films and lipid bi-layers. His research group studies electro-chemical phenomena with the help of Atomic Force Microscopy, Impedance Spectroscopy, and Quantum Modeling. He holds joint appointments in both Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering departments, and is currently the Robert Bosch Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department. Office: Bldg 530 Rm 114
Professor Bernard Roth conducts research on the application of design thinking, and on theoretical kinematics and its practical applications to the design of machines and mechanisms. He also researches in the area of robotics. He teaches design, kinematics, robotics, group processes, and the societal aspects of technology. He co-teaches summer workshops on design thinking and creativity. 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.
Lecturer Joe Hustein focuses on the interplay of law, business, and intellectual property and their effects on strategies in the design and commercialization of technology. He brings more than three decades of experience as an engineer, industrial designer, and business lawyer to his classes on technology licensing. Hustein has been the general counsel of several Silicon Valley companies and is currently at SVTC Technologies, an R&D semiconductor fab headquartered in San Jose, CA.
Lecturer David L. Jaffe has interests that include embedded microcomputer systems and alternative user interfaces. He teaches Perspectives in Assistive Technology, a winter quarter course that explores the broad spectrum of issues surrounding the design, development, and use of technology that benefits people with disabilities.
Consulting Associate Professor Jeffrey Schox is a Registered Patent Attorney and the founding member of Schox Patent Group, a boutique patent firm devoted to building patent portfolios that enable startups to increase value and attract funding. Drawing on his experience of over ten years in patent law and his degrees in both mechanical and electrical engineering, he has filed over 250 patent applications in a broad range of cutting-edge technologies. Jeffrey also teaches patent law in Stanford's law school.
Phillip Barkan ~ 1925-1996
Prof. Phillip Barkan's distinguished engineering career spanned nearly fifty years, both in the private sector and in academia. He was internationally recognized as a "master design engineer" in high-speed machinery. More recently, he became internationally well known for pioneering what is probably the first and most extensive graduate curriculum on design for manufacturability and the product design process.
Rolf Arne Faste ~ 1943-2003
Professor Rolf Faste's interest in design process and creativity extended to all areas of design engineering, art, product and architecture, as well as to the larger concerns of design technology and society. His scholarship was most recently focused on the interaction between creativity and culture. He was the Director of the Product Design Program. He co-lead many workshops on creativity (Stanford report article).
Henry Otten Fuchs ~ born 1907
Kosuke Ishii ~ 1958-2009
Professor Kos Ishii's research developed methods and tools for system design and management to improve the life-cycle quality of products and processes. He applied structured techniques to support “Design for X” decisions addressing robustness, reliability, serviceability, variety, flexibility, and sustainability. His recent research interests included Scenario-based Amorphous Design and Decision Analytical Scorecarding. He was a member of the Science Council of Japan and a fellow of the ASME. (Memorial Resolution)
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