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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