Engineering System Design Lab @UIUC

Welcome to the Engineering System Design Lab at the Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, directed by Professor James Allison. Our mission is to play a leading role in the transformation of engineering system design.

The complexity of engineered systems has risen dramatically in recent decades, but conventional system design methods have failed to keep pace, resulting in regular cost and time overruns. Interactions between system components contribute to complexity, and at the ESDL we study advanced design methods that can fully account for system interactions and capitalize on synergistic relationships to improve system performance and reduce complexity of the design process. We are particularly interested in ways better system design can have positive impact on humanity, such as improving energy efficiency and energy sustainability.

Please visit our research and publications pages to learn more about our work. You may also be interested in visitng Professor Allison's YouTube Channel and MATLAB Central Profile for videos and MATLAB code associated with teaching and research relevant to the ESDL. If you have more questions, are interested in joining the ESDL, or are considering collaboration or sponsoring our research, please contact Professor Allison.

James Allison was awarded the Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising (April 2012).
James Allison presented the paper 'Engineering System Co-Design with Limited Plant Redesign' at the 8th AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Specialist Conference on April 24th 2012.
Welcome to Mike Guevara who joined the ESDL in January 2012 as an undergraduate researcher.
Congratulations to Dan Herber who graduated with his B.S. in General Engineering on 12/17/11.
A new special topics course (GE 598 - Dynamic System Modeling and Design) will be offered Spring 2012. It will address the interfaces between modeling, simulation, control, design, and optimization aspects of dynamic system design.
Welcome to Dan Herber and Allen Kaitharath who joined the ESDL in October 2011 as undergraduate researchers.