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Author:: Bobuk, Aaron Michael
Title:: A Design Method For Product Family Trade Studies Utilizing GVI and PFPF Metrics With Application to Robotic Ground Vehicles
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: design
product
family
trade studies
GVI
generational variety index
PFPF
product family penalty function
robot
robotic
ground
vehicle
ATSV
genetic algorithm
Simulink
Matlab
mathematical model
commonality
platform
optimization
File:: Download Aaron_Bobuk_M.S_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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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

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Author:: Logan, Drew G.
Title:: OPTIMIZATION OF HYBRID POWER SOURCES FOR MOBILE ROBOTICS THROUGH THE USE OF ALLOMETRIC DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: system modeling
optimal design
hybrid systems
dynamic programming
allometric design
mobile robots
robot performance
File:: Download Drew_Logan_MS_ME_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Martin Reichard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Kollat, Joshua B
Title:: Many-Objective Groundwater Monitoring Network Design Using Bias-Aware Ensemble Kalman Filtering, Evolutionary Optimization, and Visual Analytics
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: monitoring network design; multiobjective optimiza
File:: Download KollatDissertationSpring2010_Print.pdf
Committee Members:: John Patrick Reed, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick M Reed, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Thorsten Wagener, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Slingerland, Laura A.
Title:: A Product Family Optimization Approach Using Multidimensional Data Visualization
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: multiobjective optimization
product platform
product family
commonality
visualization
File:: Download Thesis_Laura_A_Slingerland.pdf
Committee Members:: Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy William Simpson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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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

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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

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Author:: Mehta, Vipul Vijay
Title:: Design, Analysis, and Applications of Cellular Contact-Aided Compliant Mechanisms
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Contact-aided compliant mechanisms
topology optimization
meso-scaled structures
morphing aircraft skin
stress relief
File:: Download Vipul_Mehta_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Mary I Frecker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George A Lesieutre, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member

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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

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