Research Laboratory at USC

The IMPACT laboratory at USC is a joint research center of the Departments of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME), Industrial and System Engineering (ISE) and Computer Science (CS). It was founded by Professor Stephen Lu in 1995, and is now the home base for the Inspiring Technology research in the USA.

IMPACT stands for Improving Manufacturing Productivity with Advanced Collaboration Technology. As the name suggests, its research focuses include computer-based theories, methodologies, and tools to enable better collaborations of engineering teams across the Internet on various product design and manufacturing tasks. The Inspiring Technology is one of the current research focuses at IMPACT.

The Inspiring Technology research team at IMPACT at USC is currently conducting an extensive research on innovative product development methodologies, fractal/holistic human systems modeling approaches, advanced sensor technologies, and various energy applications.

The research team at IMPACT at USC is led by Professor Stephen Lu. Other team members include: Mr. (Bill) Hongzhong Jia (PhD student) and Mr. Frank Zhang (Undergraduate student). 

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