The objectives of this multi-university research center are:

• To serve as a revolutionary integration environment to research, develop, and test technologies that enable the evolution of
  collaborative service-oriented design paradigm with capability for interoperability, trust-support infrastructure, systems engineering
  approach to design, pro-activeness of analysis, virtual prototyping, lean product data management, multidisciplinary constraints & preferences capturing, and instant distributed access & visualization
• To provide a testbed to benchmark, verify, and validate the performance of vendors’ software intended to function within an e-Design
  environment with specified parameters for interoperability and collaboration
• To nurture and cultivate a new breed of engineers, scientists, technologists and business leaders in e-Design products and systems
  through a closely dovetailed university/industry collaboration