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Made By Design Lab

Our Penn State Lab seeks to advance society’s understanding of how Additive Manufacturing (or 3D Printing) can revolutionize the field of engineering design

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The mission of the Made By Design Lab is to encourage informed and inspired engineering design using Additive Manufacturing technologies. We operate at the intersection of design, processes, and materials, to advance Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) research in 3 key areas:

Cognitive Workload

We seek to understand how cognitive demands emerge from task complexity, time pressure, and system design, and how these demands affect human performance in complex work environments.

Design Guidelines

We seek to understand how human factors research can inform design guidelines that ensure systems support human decision-making, resilience, and safety.

Design Thinking

We seek to understand how to use and teach human-centered design approaches in a way that meaningfully shapes how engineers approach complex problems.