Mechanical Engineering Faculty Profile:

Dr. Linda Schmidt
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Joint Appointment with the Institute for Systems Research
System and product design theory and methodology; developing designer assistance tools for system and product design; engineering student team training; preser- vation of proprietary design knowledge; conceptual design processes

(301) 405-0417 | lschmidt@umd.edu | website | Room 3139, Bldg 088, Glenn L. Martin Hall

Education
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1995

Recent Publications
Li, X., L. Schmidt, W. He, L. Li, and Y. Qian, “Transformation of an EGT Grammar: New Grammar, New Designs,” CD-ROM Proceedings of DETC’01 2001 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2001/DTM-21716, September 9-12, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001.

Schmidt, L.C., H. Shetty, and S. Chase, “A Graph Grammar Approach to Mechanism Synthesis,” Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 122, pp. 371-376, 2000.

Chen, W., K. Lewis, and L.C. Schmidt, “The Open Workshop on Decision-Based Design: Origin, Status, Promise, and Future,” Engineering Valuation and Cost Analysis, Vol. 3, pp. 57-66, 2000.

Schmidt, L.C., and J. Cagan, “Optimal Configuration Design: An Integrated Approach Using Grammars,” Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 120, No. 1, pp. 2-9, 1998.

Schmidt, L.C., and J. Cagan, “GGREADA: A Graph Grammar-Based Machine Design Algorithm,” Research in Engineering Design, Vol. 9, pp. 195-213, 1997.

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