Charles M. Eastman
(last updated 8/16/99)
Charles Eastman is Professor in the Colleges of Architecture and Computer Science at Geoergia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Mr. Eastman's teaching and research is in the areas of computer-aided design, solids modeling and engineering databases, and design cognition and theory, with over seventy published papers in these fields.
B. Arch.,M. Arch. University of California, Berkeley
Previous Positions:
Professor of Architecture, Director of the Center for Design and
Computation, UCLA, 1987-1995;
Professor of Architecture and Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon
University, 1974-1982;
Director of the Center for Building Science and of the Computer
Graphics Lab, 1978-1982;
Co-founder and President, Formative Technologies, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA. 1982-1987;
Current Research:
Building Models: developing interfaces between
applications and various building models, including IFC and CIS;
developing "next generation" integration and data
exchange technology; database issues of engineering and design
teams; integrating process coordination with data exchange.
Drawing Recognition: developing a high level language and implementation for robust drawing recognition; drawing recognition algorithms.
Building CAD/CAM: developing high level tools that support fabrication from design data; developing simulation tools that support CAD/CAM.
Design cognition and collaboration: cognitive models of design that support tool and interface development; studies and technological suport for design collaboration.
Selected Recent Publications:
Eastman, C. [1999] Building Product Models: Computer Environments Supporting Design and Construction, CRC Press, Boca Raton FL, 1999.
Jeng, T.S., and C. Eastman, [1998], ãDesign Process Managementä, Computer-aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 14, pp. 53-65.
Augenbroe, G. and C. Eastman [1998] "Product Modeling Strategies for Today and the Future", The Life-Cycle of Construction Innovations: CIB Working Conference, June 3-5, Stockholm Sweden.
Jeng, T.S., and C. Eastman, [1998] ãDatabase Architecture for Design Collaborationä, Automation and Construction, 7:6 ,pp. 475-484.
Eastman, C.M., D. S. Parker, T.S. Jeng, [1997] "Managing the Integrity of Design Data Generated by Multiple Applications: The Theory and Practice of Patchingä, Research in Engineering Design, 9, pp. 125-145.
Jacobsen, K. , T.S. Jeng, C. Eastman, [1997], "Information management in Creative Engineering Design and Capabilities of Database Transaction", Automation and Construction, 7:1,pp. 55-69.
Jeng, T.S. and C. Eastman[1997] ãA Database Architecture for Design Collaborationä, TEAMCAD Workshop, Georgia Institute of Technology, (May,
Eastman, C. [1996] ãManaging Integrity in Design Information Flowsä, Computer Aided Design, (May), 28:6/7, pp.551-565.
R. Stouffs, R. Krishnamurty,and C. Eastman [1996], ãA Formal Structure for Nonequivalent Solid Representationsä IFIP Knowledge Intensive CAD Workshop, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, September, (1996).
Dasu, Sriram and Eastman, C.M. eds., [1994], Management of Design: Management and Engineering Perspectives, Kluver Press, N.Y.; including chapter "Management of Design Information Flows".
Eastman, C.[1994],"A Data Model for Design Knowledge, in Knowledge-Based Computer-Aided Architectural Design, G. Carrera and Y. Kalay (eds.), Elsevier Press pp. 95-122.
Eastman, C.M. [1993] "Conceptual Modeling in Design", in Fundamental Development in Computer- Aided Geometric Modeling, L. Piegl (ed.), Academic Press, 185-202.
Eastman, C. S. Chase, and H. Assal, [1993], "System Architecture for Computer Integration of Design and Construction Knowledge", Automation in Construction, 2:2, pp. 95-107..
Eastman, C. M., A. Bond and S. Chase [1991] "A Data Model
for Engineering Design Databases", 1st International
Conf. on A.I. in Design, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 1991.
Courses Taught:
Geometric
and Solid Modeling Software Development
Databases
and Models for Engineering and Design
Design
of Electronic Design Environments
