Introduction

Welcome to the Visual Design and Engineering Lab at Carnegie Mellon University Mechanical Engineering Department. Our primary objective is to create new theories and methodologies that enhance early phases of engineering design through novel computational technologies. Our current work involves research in geometric knowledge capture and reuse, 3D geometric design, design synthesis from examples, augmented reality, sketch recognition, and human cognition. The primary applications of our research are in the areas of computer-aided design, industrial product design, pen-based computer applications, surgical plannning and diagnosis tools, and educational technologies.

Director

Levent Burak Kara
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Mechanical Engineering Department
Scaife Hall 315
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
lkara@cmu.edu
Phone: (412) 268-2509

Lab Contact

Visual Design and Engineering Lab

Carnegie Mellon University
Mechanical Engineering Department
Hamerschlag Hall B121
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Phone: (412) 268-8850

Administrative Assistant

Nancy Beatty
Scaife Hall 422
nlbeatty@andrew.cmu.edu
Phone: (412) 268-2908

November 2009
Prof. Kara was featured in this news article that appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

October 2009
Luoting Fu, Mark Fuge and Gunay Orbay passed the PhD qualifiers.

May 2009
Prof. Kara was awarded the NSF CAREER award by the NSF Engineering Design and Innovation (EDI) program.

May 2009
Mark Fuge received the best poster award with his work titled "A testing method and cognitive model of human diagram understanding for automating design sketch recognition" at the CIT Honor's Research event.

May 2009
The final project expo of the Senior Design course took place. Click here to download pictures from the event [zip].

April 2009
Three papers by Luoting Fu, Gunay Orbay and Mark Fuge have been accepted to ASME IDETC 2009 conference in San Diego in Septmeber.

April 2009
Prof. Kara gave research talks at PTC and WPI Computer Science Department.

March 2009
Publication list is updated.

February 2008
Prof. Kara gave talks at NASA Ames and Palo Alto Research Center.

January 2009
Prof. Kara and Prof. Shimada, have been developing a software called SketchCAD for designing new cars.

September 2008
Prof. Kara was recently featured in an article that appeared in ASME's Mechanical Engineering magazine.