4 papers
MCERF: Advancing Multimodal LLM Evaluation of Engineering Documentation with Enhanced Retrieval
Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah, Hoang Anh Nguyen, Anna C. Doris +4
Engineering rulebooks and technical standards contain multimodal information like dense text, tables, and illustrations that are challenging for retrieval augmented generation (RAG…
Agentic AI in Engineering and Manufacturing: Industry Perspectives on Utility, Adoption, Challenges, and Opportunities
Kristen M. Edwards, Maxwell Bauer, Claire Jacquillat +2
This work examines how AI, especially agentic systems, is being adopted in engineering and manufacturing workflows, what value it provides today, and what is needed for broader dep…
AI Judges in Design: Statistical Perspectives on Achieving Human Expert Equivalence With Vision-Language Models
Kristen M. Edwards, Farnaz Tehranchi, Scarlett R. Miller +1
The subjective evaluation of early stage engineering designs, such as conceptual sketches, traditionally relies on human experts. However, expert evaluations are time-consuming, ex…
Sketch2Prototype: Rapid Conceptual Design Exploration and Prototyping with Generative AI
Kristen M. Edwards, Brandon Man, Faez Ahmed
Sketch2Prototype is an AI-based framework that transforms a hand-drawn sketch into a diverse set of 2D images and 3D prototypes through sketch-to-text, text-to-image, and image-to-…