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Susan Finger
Associate Professor, CivE (Adjunct)

No longer a member of RI.

Email address: sfinger@cmu.edu

For more information, see my personal homepage.

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Research interests

My research focuses on creating computer-based design systems. My interest is in creating systems that support designers by representing the relationships between behavioral and physical attributes for designed objects.

Research interest keywords

manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and tissue engineering

Past Labs & Groups

Shape Deposition Lab - A solid freeform fabrication process which systemically combines material deposition with material removal processes.

Tissue Engineering - Applying the principles of biology and engineering to develop tissue substitutes to restore, maintain, or improve the function of diseased or damaged human tissues.

Past Projects

Rapid Design Through Virtual and Physical Prototyping - Rapid design and generation of parts and assemblies

Recent publications [View all 12 publications]

• Designing and Prototyping Interactive Fluid Dynamics Exhibits for the Carnegie Science Center: An Undergraduate Team Project Experience
  S. Finger and C. Amon
  ASEE / IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Vol. 1, November, 1997, pp. 366 - 370. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [622 KB] copyrighted

• Shape Deposition Manufacturing With Microcasting
  C. Amon, S. Finger, R. Merz, F.B. Prinz, K. Schmalz, and L. Weiss
  Journal of the Japan Welding Society, Vol. 66, No. 4, June, 1997, pp. 64-69.

• Investigation of Transport Phenomena in Microcasting Shape Deposition Manufacturing via Experiments Designed using Optimal Sampling
  K. Schmaltz, N. Leoni, P. Padmanabhan, C. Amon, S. Finger, and L. Weiss
  Symposium on Manufacturing and Materials Processing, ASME-HTD, Vol. 347, No. 9, 1997, pp. 241-250. [Abstract]

• Rapid Design and Manufacture of Wearable Computers
  S. Finger, M. Terk, E. Subrahmanian, C. Kasabach, F.B. Prinz, D. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, J. Stivorek, and L. Weiss
  Communications of the ACM, Vol. 39, No. 2, February, 1996.

• Integration of Design Education, Research and Practice at Carnegie Mellon University: A Multi-disciplinary Course in Wearable Computer Design
  C.H. Amon, S. Finger, D. Siewiorek, and A. Smailagic
  Journal of Engineering Education, 1996, pp. 279 - 285. [Abstract]

• Reflections on a Concurrent Design Methodology: A Case Study in Wearable Computer Design
  S. Finger, J. Stivoric, C. Amon, L. Gursoz, F.B. Prinz, D. Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, and L. Weiss
  Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 28, No. 5, 1996.

• Modeling of Novel Manufacturing Processes
  C. Amon, S. Finger, F.B. Prinz, and L. Weiss
  Manufacturing Science and Engineering, ASME-PED, Vol. 68, No. 2, 1994, pp. 535 - 546.

• Concurrent Design
  S. Finger, M.S. Fox, F.B. Prinz, and J. Rinderele
  Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 6, 1992, pp. 257 - 283. [Abstract]
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• Design Fusion: An Architecture for Concurrent Design
  M.S. Fox, S. Finger, E. Gardner, D. Navin-Chandra, S. Safier, and M.J. Shaw
  Knowledge-aided Design, Green, M., ed., Academic Press Ltd, London, 1992, pp. 157 - 195.
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• Integration of economic information with design and manufacturing systems
  A. Kutay and S. Finger
  Technology Management : the New International Language, October, 1991, pp. 779. [Abstract]
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