News
Federal Council elects Innosuisse Board for 2025–28
Prof. Kristina Shea was elected as a new board member. Please see more information on the external page website of Innosuisse.
"Solar-powered thermo-pneumatic actuators for passively controlled adaptive shading"
Our research is published external page online in Smart Materials and Structures.
"Computational design of 4D printed shape morphing lattices undergoing large deformation"
Our research is published external page online in Smart Materials and Structures.
Summer School "Computational Design for Additive Manufacturing"
Summer School has successfully finished. Read more on our website.
Looking for a focus project for 2024/25?
Register now and join our info event on May 30th at 16.15 at CLA E4 to learn more about the Mechatronic Mouse Enclosures for Machine Vision Based Welfare Monitoring (ARGOS) project.
Link for registration: external page https://forms.gle/YTuyBPbBu6dwCbv68
For more information, please see the Download slides (PDF, 604 KB) of the ARGOS project.
Computational Design for Additive Manufacturing Summer School
The summer school is taking place on July 1st to July 5th, 2024 at ETH Zurich. For more information and application please visit the website of external page IDEA League.
"Computational Design of 2D Lattice Structures Based on Crystallographic Symmetries"
Our research is published external page online in the Journal of Mechanical Design.
EDAC at Kangaroo goes Science
Collaboration with incon.ai
We are collaborating with incon.ai in our research project "A Low-Cost Sustainable Design and Fabrication Process for Mortarless Compressed Earth Block Dwellings". Please read the external page Linkedin post.
Welcome to
Nicolas Hochuli who joins our group as doctoral student!
"Shape reconfiguring bistable structures using heat activated fibers"
Our research is published external page online in Engineering Structures.
New Announcement for Doctoral Position is online
Please see the announcement.
Congratulations to Yu Zhang on being selected as Spotlight Article author
The external page promoting article is published on the Linkedin page of the journal Developments in the Built Environment.
"A template design and automated parametric model for sustainable corbel dwellings with interlocking blocks"
Our new research is published external page online in Developments in the Built Environment.
"Computational design and fabrication of active 3D-printed multi-state structures for shape morphing"
Our new research is published external page online in Smart Materials and Structures.
"3D-printing textiles: multi-stage mechanical characterization of additively manufactured biaxial weaves"
Our new research is published external page online in Materials & Design.
"EDAC participates in the annual “Schülerinnentag"
Please read the article published on ETH MAVT News.
"Artificial neural network supported design of a lattice-based artificial spinal disc for restoring patient-specific anisotropic behaviors"
Our new research is published external page online in Computers in Biology and Medicine.
Congratulations to Cosima du Pasquier
for receiving the ETH Medal for her outstanding doctoral thesis.
"EDAC is granted a ETH4D Research Challenge project on Low-Cost Sustainable CEB Dwellings"
Please find more information on the website of ETH for Development.
"Call for Tutors"
We are looking for tutors for 151-0321-00L Engineering Design and Material Selection (EDMS) to help during the fall semester and we would be very happy if you are interested. We encourage women to apply.
Your tasks would be:
- Support the students during the exercises
- Clarify and discuss open questions
- Give a quick intro/overview at the beginning of each exercise session
- Give qualitative feedback about their work to students (no grading)
- Support EDMS-team to run the course (logistics, solve issues, etc.)
More information you can find Download here (PDF, 726 KB). If you have questions please contact Martin Schütz.
"EDAC research is recognized as a external page Feature Article in the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design"
"Auxetic structures used in kinesiology tapes can improve form-fitting and personalization"
Our new research is published external page online in Scientific Reports.
"Mechanical properties of topological metamaterials"
Our new research is published external page online in Extreme Mechanics Letters.
"Computational design synthesis for Fabrication-Aware assembly problems using building objects with dimensional variations"
Our new research is published external page online in Advanced Engineering Informatics.
Prof. Shea and former lab member Dr. Tian Chen give talks on “Architected Matter” in the Computational Fabrication Seminar online.
Please see the talk external page here .
"Co-Design of the Morphology and Actuation of Soft Robots for Locomotion"
Our new research is published external page online in Journal of Mechanical Design.
The breathe team visits a hospital in South Africa
Leonie and Thomas from the breathe team visited a rural hospital in the Mpumalanga province in South Africa to learn more about the context in which the breathe ventilator could be used and to collect feedback on our latest prototype from local doctors. Learn more on the breathe website.
"A nonlinear optimization method for large shape morphing in 3D printed pneumatic lattice structures"
Our new research is published external page online in Smart Materials and Structures.
Welcome to
Maxime Escande and Christos Vasileiou who join our group as scientific assistants!
"Industrial evaluation of design heuristics for additive manufacturing"
Our new research is presented in the external page article published in Design Science.
"Method for identification and integration of design automation tasks in industrial contexts"
Our new research is presented in the external page article published in Advanced Engineering Informatics.
"Algorithmic design of origami mechanisms and tessellations"
Our new research is presented in the external page article published in Communications Materials.
"The Application of a Multi-Material Flexible Chain Mail for the Design of an Artificial Spinal Disc to Reproduce Natural Nonlinear and Anisotropic Rotational Behavior"
Our new research is presented in the external page article published in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing.
"Validation of a nonlinear force method for large deformations in shape-morphing structures"
Our new research is presented in the external page article published in Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.
Winners of the model car design competition
Another successful iteration of the Model Car Design Competition. We thank all the participated students and the wonderful designs. Read more
Welcome to
Milena Overhoff who joins our group as PhD student!
"breathe" ventilator at the ETH Industry Day 2021
Please see the article published by ETH for Development
Designing with 3D and 4D Printing: Explorations in Tunable Structures, Shape Morphing and Passive Machines
Prof. Kristina Shea presented at "Additive Around the World seminar series" on April 13, 2021. Please see the video external page here
Welcome to
Rafaela Louis and Marc Wirth who join our group as PhD students!
Welcome to
Dr. Cyril Picard who joins our group as Postdoc!
Summer School: Computational Design for Additive Manufacturing
Summer School has successfully finished. Read more here
Congratulations to former EDAC lab member, Dr. Jochen Mueller, for being appointed Assistant Professor
Please read the news here
Congratulations to former EDAC lab member, Dr. Tian (Tim) Chen, for being appointed Assistant Professor
Please read the news here
Summer School: Computational Design for Additive Manufacturing
In collaboration with colleagues from TU Delft, Politecnico di Milano, and Penn State, EDAC is offering the 2nd edition of the Summer School. Please find more information here
"Exploring the property space of periodic cellular structures based on crystal networks"
Our new research is presented in the external page article published in PNAS (Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America). The work is featured on the cover page for Volume 118, issue 7 of PNAS.
Dialogue Series: Innovating in Times of Crisis
Please see the Interview with the Swiss Ambassador to the US, His Excellency Jacques Pitteloud:
Congratulations to former EDAC lab member, Dr. Jochen Mueller, for wining the Lopez-Loreta Prize 2020.
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/events/eth-day/eth-day-2020.html#industryprizes
Summer School: Computational Design for Additive Manufacturing
Summer School has successfully finished. Read more here
Welcome to
George Birchenough, Joël Chapuis and Andreas Walker who join our group as a PhD students!
"breathe" ventilator from ETH wins federal funding
Please read the article published on ETH News.
Please see the external page video on Twitter.
FDFA supports ETH Zurich project to produce affordable ventilators for developing countries
Please read the external page press release of FDFA.
The website "breathe" is online now.
Working at the Heart of the Action
Article published external page here
Summer School: Computational Design for Additive Manufacturing
Confirmed funding as exemplary case in which three universities collaborated in the organization.
"Card Decks Leverage Additive Creativity"
Please read the external page article published on the Additive Manufacturing blog.
"Design Heuristics for Additive Manufacturing Cards and Objects"
Can now be downloaded from our website.
"From 3D Printing to 4D Design: The New Frontier"
"Focus: Folded Solar Panel Opens Without Power Source"
Please read the external page article published in Physics.
"Autonomous Deployment of a Solar Panel Using Elastic Origami and Distributed Shape-Memory-Polymer Actuators"
In the external page article published in the journal Physical Review Research our new research is presented.
"Design and Computational Modeling of a 3D Printed Pneumatic Toolkit for Soft Robotics"
Our new research is presented in the external page article published in the journal Soft Robotics.
"4D Druck: Kommt Zeit, kommt Form"
Talk at Treffpunkt Science City on March 17, 2019
Please find the detailed presentation here.
4D Design at the World Economic Forum 2019 in Davos
Technical Drawing and CAD
A short movie of model car design, fabrication and racing as a part of the "Technical Drawing and CAD" course (Fall Semester 2018) is online now!
"Revolutionizing Design with 3D and 4D Printing"
Welcome to
Yu Zhang who joins our group as a PhD student!
We are welcoming
Prof. Dr. Daniel McAdams, visiting professor from Texas A&E University to our lab!
The paper "Origami Sensitivity – On the Influence of Vertex Geometry" by Zimmermann, Shea and Stankovic made the cover of the 7OSME, the 7th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education. Congratulations to Luca and Tino!
"Die 4. Dimension"
An interview with Prof. Shea is published in the magazine Download LadiesDrive (PDF, 1.8 MB).
"An Autonomous Programmable Actuator and Shape Reconfigurable Structures Using Bistability and Shape Memory PolymersRobots"
external page Article published in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing makes the cover! Congratulations to Tim!
"Harnessing Bistability for Directional Propulsion of Soft, Untethered Robots"
Our new research is presented in the external page article published in PNAS (Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America). Read more
"The Digital Factory Podcast #8: 4D Printing”
Take a listen to the external page podcast given by Prof. Dr. Kristina Shea.
Technical Drawing and CAD
A short movie of model car design, fabrication and racing as a part of the "Technical Drawing and CAD" course (Fall Semester 2017) is online now!
Winners of the model car design competition
Another successful iteration of the Model Car Design Competition. We thank all the participated students and the wonderful designs. Read more
“I am excited about 4D printing and our new work in this area including designing reconfigurable and active systems”
This external page article is published on the website WOMEN IN 3D PRINTING.
"The flatpack structure which just pops up"
The article is published on the website of Engineers Australia. external page Read more
"Fabrication technology in the fourth dimension"
Our research is presented in the article published on ETH website.
Technical Drawing and CAD
A short movie of model car design, fabrication and racing as a part of the "Technical Drawing and CAD" course is online now!
Brain food from the World Economic Forum 2017 in Davos
Kristina Shea presented insights into EDAC’s research on computational design methods for 3D and 4D printing at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Watch her 5-minute talk at the ETH Ideas Lab, which has just been released online.
Winners of the model car design competition
Another successful iteration of the Model Car Design Competition. We thank all the participated students and the wonderful designs. Read more
"Das begehrte Wissen über den 4D-Druck"
Our research and an interview with Kristina Shea is included in the latest "Wissenschafts-Magazin". You can read the external page article and listen to the external page program published on February 4, 2017 in SRF Wissenschafts-Magazin.
Successful Workshop at EDAC: Home-made skis on the slopes
Skis built in the Integrative Ski Design and Fabrication Workshop
New workshop in Fall Semester 2016 for Focus Specialization in Design, Mechanics and Materials
Download Integrative Ski Design and Fabrication Workshop (PDF, 263 KB)
DESIGN 2016 (DESIGN Conference):
Outstanding Contribution
The paper "Estimating the Potential of State the Art Design Automation – Tasks, Methods, and Benefits" authored by E. Rigger, C. Münzer, K. Shea was rated in the top 5% papers based on reviewers' scores.
Focus-Project TourBo
New testing of the innovative ski touring boot:
Best Paper Awards
Dr. Tino Stanković, Jochen Müller, Dr. Paul Egan, Prof. Kristina Shea
Best paper award at ASME 2015 IDETC Conference, Boston, USA
"Optimization of Additively Manufactured Multi-Material Lattice Structures Using Generalized Optimality Criteria" e-citations
Fabio Modica, Fritz Stöckli, Prof. Kristina Shea
Best paper award at 2015 Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium – An Additive Manufacturing Conference, Austin, USA
"Design of Passive Dynamic Walking Robots for Additive Manufacture" e-citations
Corinna Königseder, Dr. Tino Stanković, Prof. Kristina Shea
Reviewers' favourite award at ICED 2015 Conference, Milan, Italy
"Improving Generative Grammar Development and Application Through Network Analysis Techniques" e-citations
Winners of the model car design competition
Another successful iteration of the Model Car Design Competition. We thank all the participated students and the wonderful designs. Read more
"Der 3D-Druck ist real in der ETH angekommen"
Article published in "Technische Rundschau", issue 8/2015 Download pdf (PDF, 291 KB)
News of the Focus-Projects
Ein Herz für Strandkunst und Skitouren
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014, the Focus roll-out of the Focus-Projects 2013/2014 was held in the hall of the ETH main building.
Introductory Lecture
The recording of the Introductory Lecture is online here