After radically transforming the world of design and production in sectors such as automotive and aerospace, robotics is now entering the construction sector. That is why École des Ponts ParisTech, a ...

The technology behind 3-D printing is growing more and more common, but the ability to create designs for it is not. Any but the simplest designs require expertise with computer-aided design (CAD) ...

In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...

The aerospace and electronics industries have long applied computational models to not only design airplanes and chips, but also to simulate and optimize their performance. There have, until recently, ...

In mid-November architects, designers, digital fabricators, and innovators will gather in Calgary, Canada, and at the Banff Centre for the annual Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture ...

Nancy Hairston once used her 3D-animation, digital-sculpting and computer-aided-design skills to help Mattel make Bratz Dolls. Now the 57-year-old president, CEO and owner of Dallas-based MedCAD is ...

This course covers the systematic design of real-time digital systems and verification techniques using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The course presents a top-down design methodology, where ...