Interdisciplinary Design with Manufacture Integration (Dr. Schaefer, Dr. Fathianathan)
Many products encompass mechanical as well as electrical engineering components. In order to design such products, mechanical end electrical engineering CAD systems are used. Subsequently, the designed parts are manufactured. Obviously, design modifications on both the mechanical CAD and electrical CAD side influence the associated manufacturing processes. The idea of this project is to develop a framework that would allow integrating the mechanical with the electrical manufacturing process in order to automatically respond to design changes on either side.