The Stanford Center for Design Research 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. The affiliated research labs that comprise the Center for Design Research are headed by Professors Larry Leifer (Director), Mark Cutkosky, Sheri Sheppard, and Chris Gerdes

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.

Sponsors and partners in CDR research and projects include:
  • Apple Computers
  • BMW
  • Boeing
  • Bosch
  • Cisco Systems
  • DaimlerChrysler
  • DARPA
  • Ford Motor Company
  • General Electric
  • General Motors
  • Hasso Plattner Foundation
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • IBM
  • Intel
  • Komatsu
  • Lockheed
  • Matsushita
  • Mettler AG
  • Mitsubishi Electric
  • Mitsui
  • NASA
  • National Science Foundation
  • NEC
  • NTT
  • Office of Naval Research
  • Panasonic
  • Paramount Bed
  • Seabed
  • Sekisui
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Tampere
  • Toshiba Corporation
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Volkwagen

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