The Center for Design Research (CDR) is a community of scholars focused on understanding and augmenting engineering design innovation and design education. CDR develops concepts and technical solutions for design thinking, concurrent engineering, distributed collaborative design, and design knowledge capture, indexing and reuse. CDR focuses on methods and tools for improving the design of specific engineering systems, with research in structural integrity evaluation and system modeling, virtual design environments, biomimetic robots, haptic controls and telemanipulation, vehicle dynamics and driver assistance systems.

You can find more information about CDR-Stanford at their website.