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AboutUMass e-Design As a founding member, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been involved with the National Science Foundation Center for e-Design since 2003. Our group, consisting of members from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the Department of Computer Science, has concentrated our efforts in developing new methods for distributed knowledge management. NSF Center for e-Design The Center serves as a national center of excellence in information technology (IT)-enabled design realization of discrete manufactured products. It operates based on the notion that information is the lifeblood of an enterprise and that collaboration is what seamlessly integrates the design, development, testing manufacturing, and servicing of products around the world. The Center serves as a revolutionary integration environment with the goal to research, develop, and test technologies that enable the evolution of a collaborative and interoperable service-oriented design paradigm. The National Science Foundation (NSF) initially established the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for e-Design and Realization of Engineered Products and Systems at the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Additional industry and university information can be found at e-design University of Massachusetts Partners |