The Center for Innovation in Product Development (CIPD) unites industry representatives with leading research faculty to investigate the end-to-end product development process—from engineering concept to market launch and beyond. Founded in 1996 as a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, CIPD pursues pioneering research into product development theory and practice.
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News

Chris Magee CIPD's Director and Heebyung Koh, a postdoctoral researcher, have won the 2006 Elsevier prize for Best Paper in T echnological Forecasting and Social Change for their paper "A Functional Approach for Studying Technological Progress: Application to Information Technology."

Chris Magee, CIPD's Director and Professor of the Practice, Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems, received the 2005 Joseph A. Martore Excellence in Teaching Award

CIPD Virtual Customer Initiative honored INFORMS Society of Marketing Science, John D. C. Little Best Paper Award
Fast Polyhedral Adaptive Conjoint Estimation
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Daniel E. Whitney, Senior Research Scientist
Newly Released Book
Mechanical Assemblies: Their Design, Manufacture, and Role in Product Development
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Recent White Papers

A Bayesian Truth Serum for Subjective Data Download >>
D. Prelec

Architecting and Innovating Download >>
R. Campbell

Establishing Quantitative Economic Value for Features and Functionality of New Products and New Services (CHAPTER N) Download >>
K. Otto, V. Tang, W. Seering

Organizational Languages Download >>
B. Wernerfelt

Product Development Processes,
Three Vectors Of Improvement
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R. Campbell, M. Holmes

Modularizing Product Architectures Using Dendrograms Download >>
K. Hölttä, V. Tang, W. Seering

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