Dr. Kyoung-Yun Kim’s research at Wayne State focuses on design informatics; design science; semantic assembly design; design awareness on manufacturing processes; crowdsourcing design; and product life-cycle modeling. Dr. Kim has received over $7M in funding from agencies including NSF, DMDII, VA-CASE, DOD, DOE, NIDRR, and industries including Ford, GM, and GDLS. Dr. Kim is an innovator in engineering design education and implemented manufacturing educational innovation curricula with support from the NSF IUSE, NSF CI-TEAM, NSF CCLI Stage II, and DOD grants. As the lead PI, he is realizing an innovative cyberlearning platform for environmentally responsible product design based on the constructionist theory in learning with NSF IUSE grant (CooL:SLiCE). Currently, Dr. Kim is the site director for the NSF I/UCRC Center for e-Design. He is a technical lead for DMDII (Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute) at Wayne State. Dr. Kim is an as- sociate editor of Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science.