In the consulting time allowed by my appointment at the university, I am Vice President for Technology, Red Cedar Technology (formerly Applied Computational Design Associates, Inc. or "ACDAssociates"). We founded this company to do industrial consulting, exploiting methods developed in the GARAGe and the Computational Structural Mechanics Laboratory at MSU. Red Cedar introduced its HEEDS software for automated design/optimal search to the market in 2003, after several years of internal development and consulting use. It is now in use by many companies globally on a variety of design problems.
