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LAB NEWS:
2012
Jan
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Conference: Elizabeth Traut
attended the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington
D.C.
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Defense: Scott Peterson successfully
defended his dissertation, titled “Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles:
battery degradation, grid support, emissions, and battery size tradeoffs”
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2011
Dec
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Visitor: Professor Eric Williams visited
the group to discuss life cycle assessment, learning curves, and vehicle
electrification.
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Nov
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Presentations: Elizabeth Traut,
Scott Peterson, and Jeremy Michalek presented
four talks at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Charlotte, N.C.
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Oct
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Presentation: Allison Weis presented “Minimizing
the Integration Costs of Wind Using Curtailment and Electric Vehicle
Charging” at the US Associate for Energy Economics North American
Conference in Washington D.C.
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Qualification: Grace Heckmann
and Tugce Yuksel
passed their Ph.D. qualifying exams.
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Outreach: Elizabeth Traut
presented at the Green Design Apprenticeship Program.
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Visitor: Dr. Elea Feit
visited the group from the Wharton School and presented “Controlling for Complex
Non Verbal Stimuli in a Choice Model”.
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Visitor: Dr. Somnath
Roy visited from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to
present a Mechanical Engineering seminar on “Monitoring, modeling and
mitigating impacts of wind farms”.
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Visitor: Dr. Mikhail Chester visited from
Arizona State University to present a seminar on life cycle assessment in
the transportation sector.
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Visitor: Dr. Anna Stefanopoulou
visited from the University of Michigan to present a Mechanical
Engineering seminar “On the Accuracy, Identifiability
and Estimation of Battery Behavior”.
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Sep
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Media: The group’s study on “Valuation
of Life Cycle Plug-in Vehicle Air Emissions and Oil Displacement
Benefits” appeared in Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences and was covered by a range of
national and international media sources, such as Bloomberg Businessweek and Greenwire.
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Presentation: Jeremy Michalek
presented to the Dean’s Council in Silicon Valley.
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Visitor: Dr. Valerie Karplus
visited the group from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to
present “Climate and Energy Impacts of Vehicle Electrification in China
under Alternative Technology Cost and Policy Assumptions”.
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Presentation: Jeremy Michalek
presented “Are plug-in vehicles worth the cost? Valuing air emissions and
oil displacement benefits in the U.S.” at Cambridge University in the
United Kingdom.
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Aug
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Presentation: Jeremy Michalek
and Grace Heckmann presented three talks at the
2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences in Washington
D.C., and Jeremy Michalek organized a panel
session on “Environmental Policy in Vehicle Design”
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Defense: Aida Khajavirad
successfully defended her dissertation, titled “Convexification
Techniques for Global Optimization of Nonconvex
Nonlinear Optimization Problems” and left the group to serve as a
postdoctoral researcher for Professor Nikolaos Sahinidis.
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Jul
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Presentation: Elizabeth Traut
and Jeremy Michalek presented “Life cycle cost,
air emissions, and oil displacement potential of plug-in vehicles” at
Ford Motor Company.
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Jun
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Presentation: Chris Hendrickson and Jeremy Michalek presented “A perspective on rebound effects
and demand/supply equilibrium” at the 2011 Climate and Energy Decision
Making Workshop on Rebound Effect.
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Presentation: Apurba
Sakti presented “Techno-economic analysis of
lithium-ion batteries for personal vehicle electrification” at the 2011
Technology Management and Policy Graduate Symposium.
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Presentation: Elizabeth Traut
presented “NHTS survey day driving distance and estimated variability to
inform electric vehicle range design” at the 2011 National Household
Travel Survey Workshop in Washington D.C.
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Presentation: Elizabeth Traut
presented “Optimal design and allocation of xEVs
and dedicated charging infrastructure for minimum life cycle GHGs and
cost” at the 2011 International Society for Industrial Ecology Conference
in Berkeley, CA.
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Presentation: Jeremy Michalek
presented “Costs and benefits of plug-in vehicles” at the 2011
Steinbrenner Media Fellowship.
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May
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Visitors: Tiago Farias
and Patricia Baptista visited and gave a
seminar on “Evaluation of the impact of new vehicle and fuel technologies
in the road transportation sector”
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Apr
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Award: Grace Heckmann
presented “” at the 2011 Bennett Conference and was awarded runner up for
best presentation.
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Presentation: Elizabeth Traut
presented “Optimal design and allocation of electrified vehicles and
dedicated charging infrastructure for minimum greenhouse gas emissions”
at the 2011 Engineering Sustainability conference, the Steinbrenner
Environmental Research Poster Session, and the Institute for Complex
Engineered Systems Anniversary Meeting.
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Visitors: Professor Heather MacLean, Jason
Luk, and Leon Raykin
visited from the University of Toronto and presented their work on
influence of driving cycles on emissions implications of plug-in
vehicles.
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Feb
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Presentations: Tugce Yuksel presented “Research on electrified vehicles
and batteries at CMU – an overview” at the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory.
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Jan
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Presentations: Elizabeth Traut
and Apurba Sakti
presented their research on plug-in vehicles and battery design at the Transportation
Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.
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Presentation: J. Michalek
presented the group’s work at the National Science Foundation Civil,
Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Conference in Atlanta, GA.
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2010
Dec
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Interview: J. Michalek was interviewed by EV World.
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Media: The group’s PHEV optimization
study by Shiau et al. was featured
on Green Car Congress.
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Nov
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Visitor: Professor
Oliver Gao visited from Cornell University
to give a departmental seminar on air pollution from transportation.
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Presentation: J. Michalek
and Orkun Karabasoglu
presented three talks at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Austin, TX.
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Oct
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Presentation: J. Michalek
presented On the Life Cycle
Implications of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles at the University of
California Davis Institute for Transportation Studies, Stanford
University Precourt Energy Efficiency Center,
and the University of California Berkeley.
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Presentation: J. Michalek
presented Product Design in
Strategic Firm Decision-Making at the Stanford University Graduate
School of Business.
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Study: J. Michalek
joined the National Petroleum Council Study on Future Transportation
Fuels requested by U.S. Energy Secretary Chu.
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Media: The group’s work was featured in
the Wall
Street Journal.
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Aug
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Grant: The group was awarded a new
grant from Toyota for Life Cycle
Cost and Environmental Assessment of Plug-in Vehicles.
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New Members: Christine Grace Heckmann and Tugce Yuksel joined the group as PhD students.
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Presentation: J. Michalek
presented two talks at the ASME International Design Engineering
Technical Conferences – Design Automation Conference and Advanced Vehicle
and Tire Technology Conference in Montreal, Canada.
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Departure: Dr. Norman Shiau
left the group to begin a position at Dell in Taiwan.
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Jul
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Media: The group’s work on plug-in
hybrids was featured
on MSNBC.com.
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Jun
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Presentation: Norman Shiau
presented a seminar titled Do More
Batteries Make a Plug-in Hybrid Better? Implications from Optimal Vehicle
Design and Allocation at the Lawrence
Berkeley National Lab.
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Visitors: Siemens AG visited the
Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center to discuss electrified
transportation, integration of renewables, and
other topics.
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May
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Visitor: Professor Andres Clarens visited from the University of Virginia
to give a Green Design Institute Seminar on life cycle assessment of
algae as a biofuel.
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Graduation: Norman Shiau
received his Ph.D. and began working as a postdoctoral research fellow.
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Presentations: Students from the Decision Tools for
Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship course presented their final
technical-business assessments for economic viability of new
technologies, including sodium ion batteries, carbon nanotube
aerogels, solar panels, and nano-adhesives.
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Apr
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Visitor: Dr. Eric Masanet
visited from Lawrence Berkeley National
Labs to give a Green Design Institute Seminar.
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Presentation: J. Michalek
presented at the Dean’s Council meeting
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Mar
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Defense: Norman Shiau
successfully defended his dissertation, titled Design Decision-Making for Market Systems and Environmental
Policy with Vehicle Design Applications.
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Presentation: J. Michalek
presented with Dr. Erica Fuchs at the Invention to Venture event on
Carnegie Mellon Campus.
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Visitor: Dr. Elea Feit
visited the group and presented on discrete choice modeling to the course
in Decision Tools for Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship.
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Presentation: Constantine Samaras presented
“Environmental, Security and Economic Issues of Electricity as a
Transportation Fuel” to the Environmental
and Energy Study Institute in Washington DC (video).
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Feb
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Presentation: Matt Kocoloski
presented “MINLP Global Optimization of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle Design and
Allocation for Minimum Cost and GHG Emissions” at the INFORMS Conference on Energy,
Sustainability and Climate Change in Gainseville,
FL.
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Qualification: Elizabeth Traut
passed her qualifying exams.
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Presentation: Elizabeth Traut
presented “Design Decisions for Electric Vehicles and Charging
Infrastructure” at the seminar series for the Steinbrenner Institute for
Environmental Education and Research.
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Jan
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Presentation: J. Michalek
and Norman Shiau presented “Do More Batteries
Make a Plug-In Better? Economic and Environmental Analysis of Plug-in Hybrid
Electric Vehicles” at the Society of Automotive Engineers
Government-Industry Meeting and attended the Electric Drive
Transportation Association Annual Meeting in Washington DC.
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2009
Dec
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Exposition: The senior capstone design
course 24-441 presented their final projects on
redesign of a product or mechanical system to meet an unmet need or
opportunity.
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Oct
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Presentation: C.-S. Norman Shiau
presented “Do More Batteries Make a Plug-In Vehicle Better?” at the
INFORMS Annual Meeting.
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Sep
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Qualification: Orkun Karabaşoğlu
passed his qualifying exams.
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Presentation: J. Michalek
presented “Optimal Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle Design and Allocation for
Diverse Driving Patterns” at the ASME International Design Engineering
Technical Conferences in San Diego, CA.
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Award: J. Michalek
was awarded the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers Design Automation Outstanding Young
Investigator Award.
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Jun
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Presentation: J. Michalek
and Jay Whitacre presented research findings on
plug-in vehicles and batteries to representatives of Toyota.
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Presentation: Ching-Shin
Norman Shiau and Chris Hendrickson presented
the group’s progress on their NSF CAREER project and NSF MUSES project at
the 2009 NSF Civil,
Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Research and Innovation
Conference in Hawaii.
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Presentation: J. Michalek
presented the group’s work
on CAFE standards and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles at the 2009 International
Engineering Systems Symposium in Boston.
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Award: The group, together with
Professor Jay Whitacre and Dr. Constantine
Samaras, was awarded a grant from Toyota Motor Corporation and a plug-in
hybrid electric vehicle for on road testing.
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New Member: Camilo Branado de Resende joined the group as a Ph.D. candidate.
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May
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Award: Elizabeth Traut
was awarded the NSF Graduate Research
Fellowship for her proposal entitled “How Does Energy Policy Affect
Vehicle Design?”
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Graduation: Nikhil Kaushal and Varun Krishnakumar each
presented his thesis at the Bennett Conference and received his M.S.
degree in Mechanical Engineering. Varun Krishnakumar left to begin work as a software engineer
at World Evolved Services, and
Nikhil Kaushal is continuing his research in
DDL.
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Proposal: Aida Khajavirad proposed her Ph.D. thesis to committee
members J. Michalek, Nickolaos Sahinidis, Kenji Shimada, and John
Hooker.
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Presentations: The Decision Tools for
Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship students presented their analyses
of production cost and market viability for a new product or technology.
Student teams analyzed eight new technologies, some of which are under
development at Carnegie Mellon research labs. Projects included adhesive
fiber material for applications in facemasks and to replace Velcro in
sports clothing, nanofiber grid structures for
respirator filters or dialysis bioscaffolding
applications, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle batteries and smart
chargers, solar panel frames for homes, and home appliance energy
consumption monitoring.
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Apr
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Press: J. Michalek
appeared on the Nippon Television Network, Nightly News story “The Future of the Auto
Industry”.
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Briefing: J. Michalek
and Constantine Samaras presented their policy briefs “Economic,
Environmental, and Security Implications of Plug-in Hybrid Electric
Vehicles” and “Cap
and Trade is Not Enough: Improving U.S. Climate Policy” to staff
members of the House Energy
and Commerce Committee, the House
Committee on Science and Technology, the Select Committee for Energy
Independence and Global Warming, the Congressional Research Service,
and offices of U.S. House and Senate members.
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Mar
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Press: The group’s work on plug-in
hybrid electric vehicles was covered by U.S.
News and World Report, CNN Money
Fortune Magazine, Automobile
Magazine, and IEEE Spectrum.
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Feb
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Press: The group’s work on plug-in
hybrid electric vehicles was covered by Bloomberg and about 20 other outlets
including the Denver Post, the Dallas Morning News, Green Car Congress, and Edmunds.
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Jan
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Press: The group’s work on plug-in
hybrid electric vehicles was featured in an MIT Technology Review article “Toyota to
Deliver Plug-In Hybrids,” January 13, 2009.
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Presentations: J. Michalek
presented “Design for Market Systems: Integrating Social, Economic and
Physical Sciences to Engineer Product Success” at the University of Maryland
– College Park,
Division of Design and Reliability of Systems.
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Presentations: Norman Shiau,
Constantine Samaras, and J. Michalek presented
three posters at the National Academies
Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington DC.
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2008
Dec
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Press: The mechanical engineering
senior capstone design course, taught by J. Michalek
and Norman Shiau, held an exposition to show
off their product inventions. The event was covered by KDKA Channel 2,
WPXI Channel 11,
and the Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review.
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Nov
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Article: An
article by J. Michalek on Design for Market Systems
appeared in the November issue of Mechanical
Engineering Magazine.
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Oct
|
Presentations: Aida Khajavirad,
Norman Shiau, and J. Michalek
presented five papers at the INFORMS conference
in Washington DC.
|
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Presentations: J. Michalek
presented “Design for Market Systems: Integrating Social, Economic and
Physical Sciences to Engineer Product Success” at The Pennsylvania State
University Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department.
|
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Proposal: Norman Shiau
proposed his Ph.D. thesis to committee members J. Michalek,
Chris Hendrickson, Jon Cagan, and Baohong Sun.
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Aug
|
New Members: Two new Ph.D. students joined
the group: Orkun Karabaşoğlu and Elizabeth Traut.
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Internship: Nikhil Kaushal completed a summer internship at Test
Devices Inc. in Hudson
Massachusetts.
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Presentations: Aida Khajavirad,
Norman Shiau, and J. Michalek
presented four papers at the ASME International
Design Engineering Technical Conferences in New York.
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Jul
|
Presentation: Costa
Samaras and Ching-Shin Norman Shiau presented the group’s findings on plug-in hybrid
electric vehicles and corporate average fuel
economy standards at the Steinbrenner
Institute’s 2008 Media Fellowship meeting.
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Jun
|
Presentation: Jeremy Michalek
presented “Wiki-based
Learning in the Mechanical Engineering Classroom” with Alan McGaughey at the ASEE
Annual Conference and Exposition in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Position: Jeremy Michalek
accepted the position of Acting Co-Director of the Masters in Product Development program
at Carnegie Mellon.
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Media: The “Decision Tools for
Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship” course co-designed by Jeremy Michalek and Erica Fuchs was featured in the June issue of The Piper.
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Graduation: Richard Hauffe
graduated (B.S.-M.E.) and took a position with Lockheed Martin, Andrew
Hamilton graduated (B.S.-M.E.) and took a position with Westinghouse, Sarat Mikkilineni graduated
(B.S.-M.E.), and Anne Marie Lewis graduated (B.S.-M.E.) and moved to the University of Michigan for graduate studies.
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Presentation: Norman Shiau
presented “A Structural Analysis of Vehicle Design Responses to Corporate
Average Fuel Economy Policy” to the Green Design Institute.
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May
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Affiliation: Jeremy Michalek
joined the new Carnegie
Mellon Center
for Product Strategy and Innovation.
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Presentations: Three DDL members presented
their undergraduate research projects at the Meeting of the Minds
conference: Richard Hauffe presented “Plug-in
Hybrid Vehicle Simulation: How Battery Weight and Driving Patterns Impact
Cost, Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emissions,” Andrew Hamilton
presented “Consumer Preference Modeling: The ‘Hybrid’ Image,” and Anne
Marie Lewis presented “A Comparison of Models for Ethanol Facility
Location Optimization.”
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Presentation: Aida Khajavirad
presented “Global Optimization of Large Scale MINLPs with Decomposable
Structure” to the Process Systems Engineering
group at Carnegie Mellon.
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Apr
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Defense: Heather Wakeley
defended her dissertation on “Alternative Transportation Fuels:
Infrastructure Requirements and Environmental Impacts for Ethanol and
Hydrogen”.
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Presentation: Jeremy Michalek
presented “Driving Design: Modeling Market Forces and Public Policy in
Vehicle Design” at the State University of New York and Buffalo.
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Presentation: Jeremy Michalek
presented “Should Designers Worry about Market Structure?” at The
Pennsylvania State University.
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Feb
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Press: Jeremy Michalek
was featured on the Carnegie
Mellon University
homepage [article].
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Visitor: Professor Bert Bras from
Georgia Tech visited the group and presented a departmental seminar on
automotive parts remanufacturing and sustainable design.
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Jan
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Press: Jeremy Michalek
was featured as a "Newsmaker" in
the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Jan 30.
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Grant Award: The group received a grant from
Ford Motor Company to study "Engineering and Market Simulation for
Optimal Product Planning under Environmental Regulation."
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Award: Jeremy Michalek
was awarded the George Tallman Ladd
Research Award for outstanding research and professional
accomplishments and potential.
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New Course: Jeremy Michalek
introduced the new course Decision Tools for
Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship with co-instructor Professor Erica Fuchs.
This course provides engineers with a multidisciplinary mathematical
foundation for integrated modeling of engineering design and enterprise
planning decisions in an uncertain, competitive market.
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Special Session: Jeremy Michalek
is organizing a special session with Nathan Williams and Shapour Azarm
for the 2008 Design Automation
Conference at the ASME IDETC on Design for Market Systems.
Submissions are due on January 21st.
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2007
Dec
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Grant Award: Jeremy Michalek
was awarded a grant from the NSF CAREER program for the project "Driving Design - Modeling the Influence of Market
Forces and Public Policy on Vehicle Design Decisions".
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Exposition: The senior capstone design
course 24-441 presented their final projects on
redesign of an existing product or mechanical system to meet an unmet
need or opportunity.
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Nov
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Visitor: Professor Olivier de Weck
from MIT visited the group and presented a departmental seminar on
designing systems and products for changeability.
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Presentations: Jeremy Michalek
presented three talks at the INFORMS Annual Meeting's Marketing,
Manufacturing, and Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming sessions in Seattle.
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Oct
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Visitor: Elea Feit from
the University of Michigan Ross School of Business visited the group and
presented a seminar on design of choice experiments.
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Sep
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Qualification: Norman Shiau
and Aida Khajavirad passed their PhD Qualifying
Exams.
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Presentations: Norman Shiau
and Aida Khajavirad presented six papers at the
ASME International Design Engineering Technical
Conferences in Las
Vegas.
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Aug
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New Members: Two new M.S. students joined the
group: Varun Krishnakumar
and Nikhil Kaushal.
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New Members: Four new undergraduate students
joined the group: Andrew Hamilton, Richard Hauffe,
Anne Marie Lewis, and Sarat Mikkilineni.
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Course: Jeremy Michalek
began the course 24-441 Engineering Design with Aida Khajavirad serving as TA.
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Jul
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Presentation: Jeremy Michalek
presented “Modeling Energy Policy and Consumer Choice in Vehicle Design
Optimization” at Ford Motor Company’s Systems Analytics and Environmental
Sciences Group.
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Grant Award: Jeremy Michalek
received a grant from Carnegie Mellon's Institute for the Study of
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology to develop the course Quantitative Methods for Product Design and
Development for graduate and undergraduate students.
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Jun
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Presentation: Ching-Shin
Shiau presented a poster on "Vehicle
Design Under Environmental Policy" at the Technology,
Management and Policy Graduate Consortium in Pittsburgh.
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Appointment: Jeremy Michalek
received an affiliated faculty appointment in the Engineering and
Public Policy Department at Carnegie Mellon.
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May
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New Members: Three new undergraduate members
joined the lab for summer projects: Chanjoo
Hwang, Jonghyun Lee, and Esther Chen.
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Graduation: Surya Swamy
defended his M.S. project titled "Global optimization of
mixed-integer nonlinear systems using decomposition and Lagrangian branch-and-cut" and received his M.S.
degree in mechanical engineering. He then left DDL to begin a position
with Lumina
Decision Systems.
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Exposition: The senior capstone design
course 24-441 presented their final projects
on redesign of an existing product or mechanical system to meet an unmet
need or opportunity.
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Apr
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Presentation: Aida Khajavirad
presented "A Decomposed Genetic Algorithm for Solving the Joint
Product Family Optimization Problem" at the AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Specialists
Conference
in Hawaii.
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Feb
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Visitor: Professor Matthew
Parkinson from Penn State
University visited
the group and gave a departmental seminar on designing for human
variability.
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Jan
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Course: Jeremy Michalek
began the course 24-441 Engineering Design.
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Position: Jeremy Michalek
accepted a position to serve as Chair of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers Design Engineering Division's Publicity and Newsletter
Committee and editor of the DED Newsletter.
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2006
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Dec
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Visitor: Professor Wei Chen from Northwestern University
visited the group and gave a departmental seminar on a decision-based
design approach for integrating enterprise product planning and
engineering product development.
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Nov
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Grant Award: The group was awarded a grant
from the Pennsylvania
Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA) program to work with Professor Peter Boatwright (Marketing, CMU) and Professor Tim Simpson (Eng., PSU) to study
decomposition approaches for balancing market and engineering needs in
product family optimization.
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New Wiki: The group established the Design
Decisions Wiki
to act as a central resource for sharing information about design and
tools to analyze and support decision-making.
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Presentation: Jeremy Michalek
presented "Balancing Marketability and Manufacturability in Product
Line Design Optimization" at the INFORMS annual conference.
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Presentation: Jeremy Michalek
and Norman Shiau presented "The Impact of
Environmental Policy on Profit-Driven Vehicle Design Optimization"
at the INFORMS annual conference in Pittsburgh.
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Conference: Jeremy Michalek
served as sponsored session chair at the INFORMS annual conference.
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Oct
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Visitor: Eleanor Feit, from the University of Michigan
Ross School of Business, visited the group and presented her work on
integrating conjoint analysis with field data and on Bayesian estimation.
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Sep
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Presentation: Jeremy Michalek
presented "BB-ATC: Analytical target
cascading using branch and bound for mixed integer nonlinear programming" at the ASME International
Design Engineering Technical Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
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Aug
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New Members: Aida Khajavirad and Ching-Shin (Norman) Shiau joined the group as Ph.D.
candidates in Mechanical Engineering.
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Course: Jeremy Michalek
began the new course 24-789C Quantitative
Methods for Product Design and Development.
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Grant Award: The group was co-awarded a grant
from the National Science
Foundation
MUSES program in collaboration with an
interdisciplinary team from the Green
Design Institute to study infrastructure and
environmental impact for alternative fuels and vehicles.
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Graduation: Yanjing
Li defended her Master's Thesis, Diagonal Quadratic Approximation for
Parallel Computing with Analytical Target Cascading and received her M.S.
degree in Mathematical Sciences. She then moved to Stanford University
to pursue a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.
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Jun
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New Members: Sandy Hsieh joined the group as
a M.S. candidate in Mechanical Engineering, and Ali Gitomer
joined the group as a visiting student for summer while pursuing her B.S.
in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University.
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May
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Exposition: The capstone 24-441 Engineering Design course presented their final
projects on Assistive Devices for Disabilities and Geriatrics at their
design exposition.
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Apr
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Visitor: Professor Steven
Skerlos, from the University of Michigan,
visited the group and gave a departmental seminar on environmental impact
and metalworking fluids.
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Mar
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Visitor: Professor Shapour Azarm from the University of Maryland, visited the group and gave a departmental seminar on
design optimization.
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Feb
|
Presentation: Jeremy Michalek
presented "Realizable Product Line Optimization: Coordinating
Product Positioning and Design for Heterogeneous Markets" to the
Marketing group at the Tepper School
of Business.
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Jan
|
Course: Jeremy Michalek
began teaching the course 24-441 Engineering Design,
with Surya Swamy serving as teaching assistant.
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2005
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