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Author:

Jain, Avanti

Title:

A SYSTEMATIC PROCESS FOR PRODUCT FAMILY DISSECTION AND BENCHMARKING

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Product Line Commonality Index (PCI)
Design Structure Matrix (DSM)
Bill of Materials (BOM)
Benchmarking
Dissection
Product Family
Generational Variety Index (GVI)
Market Segmentation Grid

File:

Download MS_thesis_IE_Avanti_.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Natarajan, Ajay

Title:

MULTI-CRITERIA SUPPLY CHAIN INVENTORY MODELS WITH TRANSPORTATION COSTS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Multi-Criteria optimization
Single Objective optimization
Inventory policies
Transportation
Inventory
Supply Chain
Stochastic modelling
Supply chain Case Study

File:

Download Thesis_Report.pdf

Committee Members:

Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
John Eugene Tyworth, Committee Member

Author:

Donaldson, Ben

Title:

Application of Product Family Design Tools to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robots

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

product family design
product platforms

File:

Download Thesis_4-30_-_Donaldson.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Shin, Dongmin

Title:

A Formal Model for Analysis and Control for Human-involved Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Formal Model
Control
Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems
Material Handling

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Allen Wysk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Ali R Hurson, Committee Member

Author:

Thevenot, Henri Jehan

Title:

A METHOD FOR PRODUCT FAMILY REDESIGN BASED ON COMPONENT COMMONALITY ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Product Family Design
Product Platform Design
Commonality Index
Product Redesign
Genetic Algorithm
Product Dissection

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Henri_Thevenot.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member
Madara M Ogot, Committee Member
Gul Kremer, Committee Member

Author:

Yoo, Jung-Woon

Title:

A MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORK FOR SEMANTIC WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION WITH APPLICATION TO MODULAR PRODUCT DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

k-best solution approach
Web service composition
Semantic Web
Integer Programming
quality of service

File:

Download Yoo-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Jose Antonio Ventura, Committee Member

Author:

Nanda, Jyotirmaya

Title:

A Framework for Product Platform Knowledge Management using the Semantic Web Paradigm

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

product family design
product platform design
semantic web
ontology
knowledge management
formal concept analysis
product design

File:

Download Jyotirmaya.Nanda.Ph.D.Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member
Richard Allen Wysk, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Steven B Shooter, Committee Member

Author:

Fu, Jing

Title:

PROCESS MODELING AND SIMULATION OF FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING OF WATER ICE IN A CRYOGENIC ENVIRONMENT

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Microtomy
Cryo-EM
ion sputtering
focused ion beam
water ice
Cryo-FIB

File:

Download Jing_Fu_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sanjay B Joshi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Richard Allen Wysk, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Jaeil

Title:

METHODS FOR INCORPORATING COST INFORMATION INTO PLATFORM-BASED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Product Family Design
Product Platform
Activity-Based Costing

File:

Download ThesisMaster_new.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Allen Wysk, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member
Michael Freimer, Committee Member

Author:

Kang, Kang

Title:

USING PRODUCT DISSECTION TO EXPOSE ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO CULTRUAL ISSUES IN PRODUCT DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Engineering Design Education
Product Dissection

File:

Download Thesis_Product_Dissection-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yip, Kelly

Title:

Mining Human Interaction Data

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

data mining
multivariate time series
categorical data
association rule
sequential pattern
interactive data
approximated pattern

File:

Download KellyY_FinalSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

David Arthur Nembhard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Michael J Rovine, Committee Member

Author:

Deo, Mandar Vighnahari

Title:

A Pattern Allowance Advisor Tool for Steel Castings

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

pattern dimension prediction
pattern allowance prediction
STeel casting shrink rules

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul H Cohen, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Irene Johnston Petrick, Committee Member

Author:

Meckesheimer, Martin

Title:

A FRAMEWORK FOR METAMODEL-BASED DESIGN: SUBSYSTEM METAMODEL ASSESSMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

design of computer experiments
multidisciplinary design optimization
metamodeling

File:

Download martinthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Enrique Del Castillo, Committee Member
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Acharya, Navin N

Title:

MISSING OBSERVATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ON RANDOMIZATION IN NANOMANUFACTURING EXPERIMENTATION

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

missing observations
multistage designs
restrictions on randomization
nanomanufacturing challenges
split-plot

File:

Download NAVIN_THESIS_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Harriet Black Nembhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Kon Jin Lin, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Seong H Kim, Committee Member

Author:

Govind, Nirmal

Title:

ROBUST PARAMETER DESIGN WITH IMPERFECT EXPERIMENTAL CONTROL OF NOISE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Robust Design
Response Surface
Imperfect Control
Noise Factors
Queueing System

File:

Download ThesisDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell Richard Barton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Jean Medeiros, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Lee W Schruben, Committee Member

Author:

Asikoglu, Oyku

Title:

A New Method for Evaluating Design Dependencies in Product Architectures

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Product design
change propagation in design
design dependencies
product architectures
component interfaces
design flexibility metric

File:

Download OYKU_ASIKOGLU-PHD_FINALDISSERTATION.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gul Kremer, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Special Member

Author:

Pitts, Jr., Richard A

Title:

A MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING APPROACH FOR ROUTING AND SCHEDULING FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING CELLS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

flexible manufacturing cells
mixed-integer linear programming
tabu search meta-heuristic
scheduling

File:

Download RichardPitts.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Antonio Ventura, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Irene Johnston Petrick, Committee Member

Author:

Shah, Ruchit Aswin

Title:

Using Hierarchical Bayesian Optimization to Learn and Exploit the Dependency Structures of Combinatorial Many-Objective Decision Problems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Combinatorial optimization
Multiobjective optimization
Knapsack problem
Probabilistic model building evolutionary algorith
Hierarchical Bayesian networks
Visual Analytics

File:

Download Thesis_Ruchit_Shah.pdf

Committee Members:

John Patrick Reed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick M Reed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sarnobat, Rahul Umesh

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF SOFTWARE FOR SYSTEMATIC BENCHMARKING OF PRODUCT FAMILIES

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Toolkit
product family
benchmarking software
benchmarking
Microsoft Excel add-in

File:

Download Thesis_Rahul_Sarnobat_0825.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Moon, Seung Ki

Title:

A Strategic Module-Based Platform Design Method for Developing Customized Families of Products and Services

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Product Family Design
Service Family Design
Module-based Platform
Data Mining
Decision-Making
Multi-Agent System
Mass Customization

File:

Download SeungKi.Moon.Ph.D.Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Oh, Seog-Chan

Title:

Effective Web-service Composition in Diverse and Large-scale Service Networks

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

web-service composition
AI planning
complex network
benchmark

File:

Download oh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Tom Michael Cavalier, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member

Author:

Marion, Tucker James

Title:

New Product Development in Early-Stage Firms

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

cross-functional teams
product platforms
new product failure rates
early-stage firms
start-ups
new product development
industrial design
phase-gate

File:

Download T._Marion_Dissertation_Final_Draft_6-11-07.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member
Richard Allen Wysk, Committee Member
Douglas J Thomas, Committee Member
Dr Steven B Shooter, Committee Member
Dr Marc H Meyer, Committee Member

Author:

Kochar, Vishal Madanlal

Title:

GEOMETRY DEPENDENT PATTERN ALLOWANCE PREDICTION FOR CASTINGS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Pattern allowance
casting
geometry
modulus
steel
restraint
solidification
parting line
heat treatment

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Allen Wysk, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Yong-Han

Title:

Market-based Dynamic Resource Control of Distributed Multiple Projects

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

resource control
distributed multiple projects
multiagent
market-based control

File:

Download yonghan_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Natarajan Gautam, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Zhi

Title:

WIRE ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING (WEDM) AS A SUBTRACTIVE RAPID MANUFACTURING TOOL

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Visibility Analysis
Wire EDM
Computer-aided Manufacturing
Rapid Manufacturing
Process Planning
Geometric algorithm

File:

Download Dissertation_Zhi_Yang.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Allen Wysk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Allen Wysk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sanjay B Joshi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member

Author:

Culbertson, Timothy David

Title:

Shape Grammar Composition and Salient Feature Identification for a Product Family

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

product family
style
similarity
shape
aesthetics
feature identification
freeform surface
engineering design
industrial design
design automation

File:

Download Culbertson_MSIE_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lin, Chun-yu

Title:

On the Applicability of Dynamic State Variable Models to Multiple-generation Product Decisions: Case Studies

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Dynamic State Variable Model
Multiple generation product line

File:

Download Chun-yu_Lin_Revised_Dissertation_V._6.pdf

Committee Members:

Gul Kremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andris Freivalds, Committee Member
Charles David Ray Sr., Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Ying

Title:

A Trade Space Exploration Process to Optimize Advanced Energy Retrofit Design for Buildings

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Trade Space Exploration
Energy Retrofit Design
Building System
Data Visualization

File:

Download ZHANG_Ying_Master_Thesis_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Messner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Samperi, Matthew T

Title:

Development of Design Guidelines for Metal Additive Manufacturing and Process Selection

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Design for Manufacturing
Process Selection
Rapid Prototyping

File:

Download Thesis-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay B Joshi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Martukanitz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Paul Griffin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kim, Wonmo

Title:

A Framework for Set-based Manufacturing Analysis and Visual Feedback

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

manufacturing analysis
design for manufacturing
visual manufacturing feedback
set-based approach

File:

Download dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Member
Sanjay B Joshi, Committee Member
Christopher J Saldana, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Daniel Antion Finke, Special Member

Author:

Hanson, Thor Kristofer

Title:

Application of Trade Space Exploration and Sequential Decision-Making to Portfolio Management to Inform Army Equipping and Modernization Strategies

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Trade Space Exploration
Portfolio Management
Decision Making
Portfolio Decision Making

File:

Download Hanson_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Woodruff, Matthew John

Title:

Many Objective Visual Analytics: Decision Aiding Tools for Conceptual Design

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Decision Aiding
Many Objective
Conceptual Design

File:

Download dissertation_woodruff_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member

Author:

Toh, Christine

Title:

TOWARDS A THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF CREATIVE CONCEPT SELECTION IN ENGINEERING DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Engineering Design
Creativity
Concept Selection
Engineering Education
Preferences for Creativity
Design Decision-Making
Decision-Making Biases
Psychometrics

File:

Download Toh_Dissertation_7_18.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scarlett Rae Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gul Kremer, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Samuel Todd Hunter, Outside Member

Author:

Dinda, Shantanab

Title:

Designing a Mobile Application for Evaluating Manufacturability of Parts Using Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

3D printing
Additive Manufacturing
Mobile Application
Manufacturability Analysis
Voxel-based Models
Voxelization
Build Time Estimation
Cost Estimation

File:

Download Shantanab_Dinda_MSIE_SU17_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicholas Alexander Meisel, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Starkey, Elizabeth Marie

Title:

Formalizing the Role of Product Dissection on Creativity and Learning in Engineering Education

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

product dissection
creativity
learning
engineering education
design fixation
fixation
eye tracking

File:

Download Starkey_Dissertation_August_6_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scarlett Rae Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
Samuel Todd Hunter, Outside Member

Author:

Jennings, Connor Patrick

Title:

Forecasting Technical and Functional Obsolescence for Improved Business Processes

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

obsolescence
life cycle
obsolete
DMSMS
machine learning
obsolescence risk
ROC
Receiver operating characteristic
cell phone
camera
screens

File:

Download Connor_Jennings_-_Penn_State_Dissertation_2018__Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Janis P Terpenny, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Conrad S Tucker, Outside Member