Technische Universität München

Matthew Campbell received his Bachelor of Science and his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1995 and 1997 from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. In 2000 he was awarded his Ph.D. degree also at Carnegie Mellon University (dissertation: The A-Design Invention Machine: A Means of Automating and Investigating Conceptual Design. Thesis Advisors: Prof. Jonathan Cagan, Prof. Kenneth Kotovsky).
Campbell joined the Manufacturing and Design program of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Texas at Austin as Assistant Professor in that same year and founded the Automated Design Lab. Since 2006 he has been working as an Associate Professor and William J. Murray Jr. Fellow at the Mechanical Engineering Department.

2005 National Science Foundation CAREER Award

2004 The Innovative Use of Instructional Technology Awards, Silver Award for Resource Development

2003 Best Paper Award, International Conference on Engineering Design, The Design Society

2003 Best Paper Award, Fourteenth Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium

2002 Best Paper Award in Mechanical Engineering, American Society of Engineering Education

1998 Xerox Best Paper Award, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers in Engineering Conference

More publications are available here.

J. Patel and M. I. Campbell, "An Approach to Automate and Optimize Concept Generation of Sheet Metal Parts by Topological and Parametric Decoupling", Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. in review, 2009.

T. Kurtoglu, M. I. Campbell, and J. Linsey, "An Experimental Study on the Effects of Computational Design Tool on Concept Generation", Design Studies, vol. in press, 2009.

T. Kurtoglu and M. Campbell, "An evaluation scheme for assessing the worth of automatically generated design alternatives", Research in Engineering Design, vol. 20, pp. 59-76, 2009.

M. I. Campbell and O. B. Nakhjavani, "A Deterministic Global Optimization Method for Multimodal Spaces", Journal of Global Optimization, vol. accepted, 2009.

R. Rai and M. I. Campbell, Q2S2: "A New Methodology for Merging Quantitative and Qualitative Information in Experimental Design", Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 130, p. 031103, 2008.

P. Sridharan and M. I. Campbell, "A Study on the Grammatical Construction of Function Structures, Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design", Analysis and Manufacturing, vol. 19, pp. 139-160, 2005.

C. W. King, M. I. Campbell, J. J. Beaman, and S. V. Sreenivasan, "Synthesis of Multistable Equilibrium Linkage System Using an Optimization Approach, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization", vol. 29, pp. 477-487, 2005.

J. Cagan, M. I. Campbell, S. Finger, and T. Tomiyama, "A Framework for Computational Design Synthesis: Model and Applications", Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, vol. 5, pp. 171-181, 2005.

A. Weas and M. I. Campbell, "Rediscovering AIDA, Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design", Analysis and Manufacturing, vol. 18, pp. 227-243, 2004.

M. Campbell, J. Cagan, and K. Kotovsky, "The A-Design approach to managing automated design synthesis", Research in Engineering Design, vol. 14, pp. 12-24, 2003.

Campbell’s research seeks to establish new computer-based methods and design tools to further increase the efficiency and quality of engineering design. By combining engineering innovations with methods from computer science and cognitive psychology, he is able to develop automated tools capable of solving design problems independent of a user, as well as interactive tools that bring the user and the computer together as a symbiotic design team.