Research Projects
Indo-US Joint Center on Design of Sustainable Products, Services and Manufacturing Systems: Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, India (link): August 2013 to July 2015
PI's: Ameta G., Washington State University, Pullman WA, USA and Chakrabarti A, Indian Institute of Science, Banglore, India.
Partners: Davidson C., Syracuse University, USA; Dornfeld D., University of California, Berkley, CA, USA; Krishnan S.S., Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy, Banglore, India; and Gupta A., Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
State of the art and current industry practices for modeling and exchange of composites information in PLM: NIST, USA: Funds awarded - $31,000: Summer 2012
Publication in this project: Ameta G., Brown C., Lubell J. and Lipman R., "A Survey of Standards for the Lifecycle Management of Composite Structural Products", Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineering- International Design Engineering Technical Conference-2013/ Computers and Information in Engineering-12655, Portland, OR, USA, Aug 4 - 7.
Sample Course Projects
ME 574: Kinect CSG CAD
Basic CAD operations through Microsoft Kinect. Hand gestures are used to (a) create simple sketches, (b) extrude sketches and (c) translate/rotate primitives. The primitive data is automatically fed to OpenSCAD to create the resultant 3D shape.
Sample screen shots
 Kinect+C++SkeletonDemo+OpenSCAD Kinect as parameter input and menu selection |  Kinect+C#+SharpGL+OpenSCAD Kinect used to obtain primitive parameters |
ME 502: Sustainable designs
All the design (a) follow the structured design process, (b) conduct life-cycle/sustainability assessment of the completed designs and (c) are created for our community partners in the Washington State.
Drip irrigation and harvesting mechanism for potatoes | Wind resistant high tunnel hoop design for crop production |
- Portable kitchen for farmers
- Storm water/Green roof system
- Underwater cleanup ROV Project
ME 316: Baja Car Suspension Test System - Spring 2012
ME 316: Device to clean water bodies - Fall 2011
Service Projects
Kinect CAD with CS Capstone Design team
Cougar Quest Workshop (101: Engineering Design - An Immersive Experience)
A Kinect based CAD user experience initiated in Summer 2012 for Grades 7-12. The first workshop demonstrated through Kinect about basics of CAD, such as sketching, booleans and extrudes. OpenSCAD was used to visualize the 3D models created. Use of 3D printer was also demonstrated to the participants. A link to the past description of the project.
Facebook Sustainability What If app
Developed in Collaboration with the EECS software design course.