Welcome

DMI is an interdisciplinary center that integrates product design, materials processing, and manufacturing expertise with modern software and embedded systems technologies for defense and commercial applications.

Education

Faculty and staff affiliated with DMI are engaged in undergraduate and graduate education at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ and with Stevens Institute of Technology International.. DMI's research impact is on several graduate programs including:

  • Integrated Product Development (IPD)
  • Product Architecture Engineering (PAE)
  • Manufacturing Technologies and Product Management (MTPM)

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Research Areas

DMI's multi-disciplinary research thrusts and current projects:

  • Knowledge-based Design Process Automation
    * ACES: Automatic Concurrent Engineering Software
    * CONFIG: 3D Nesting and Layout Optimization
    * Product Costing Technologies for 3D CAD software
  • Engineered Materials and Composites
    * Process-Structure-Property Modeling and Characterization
    * Long term durability, thermo-oxidation and corrosion prediction
  • Multi-Disciplinary Optimization of Design and Processes
    * EDOT: Non-linear Local Optimization and Global (GA, SA) Optimization
    * Parallel Multi-Disciplinary Optimization Techniques
  • Remote Robotic Systems and Control
    * Distributed Control over Wireless Networks
    * Wireless Messaging Systems for CAN, Serial and remote operations
    * Remote robotics operation control stations
    * SMART: Sensor Manager for Adaptive Real Time Transmission
  • Micro-Scale Device Design and Manufacturing
    * MEMS Processing: Class 100 Cleanroom under construction
    * MEMS Scale design
    * Active Constraint Layer MEMS-Scale Structures
    * MEMS Durability and Reliability
  • Modeling and Simulation
    * Parallel Solutions for Transient Problems
    * Coupled Thermo-Chemo-Mechanical Solutions: Residual stresses and deformations, damage evolutions due to thermo-oxidation ...