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LAB NEWS:
2009
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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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