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On Friday, November 18th, the Stanford Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing held the Emerging Research in Manufacturing Roundtable discussion.  This event was designed to highlight new, emerging research in the broadly-defined area of Manufacturing.  Participants included faculty from Stanford University, as well as the University of Michigan and MIT.  Each participant presented their research and conducted a Q&A session.

AGENDA

Participants:

Ozalp Ozer, Stanford University

Diane Bailey, Stanford University

Beth Pruitt, Stanford University

Dawn Tilbury, University of Michigan

Damien Beil, University of Michigan

Randolph Kirchain, MIT

Biographies

Diane E. Bailey is an Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and a member of Stanford’s Center for Work, Technology and Organization. Her research examines the interplay between work and technology in highly technical settings and occupations. Currently, she and Stanford colleague Stephen Barley are leading a five-year study that examines the impact of sophisticated mathematical techniques and tools on automotive engineering design and analysis. This project follows a three-year field study that investigated the role of technology in engineering work among structural engineers in building design and hardware engineers in microprocessor design. Professor Bailey’s other research interests include telework, knowledge, learning, and work teams.

Professor Bailey was the first industrial engineer to be invited to a Frontiers of Engineering symposium, an annual meeting of sixty early-career engineers hosted by the National Academy of Engineering. In 1998, she was selected as one of thirty American engineers to attend the first German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, held in Dresden, Germany. She was granted a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 1997 from the Design, Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation Division to study teams, task, and technology in semiconductor manufacturing.

Diane holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty in 1998, she was on the faculty in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California. She has won teaching awards at both institutions.

Damian Beil

Dr. Beil is a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.  He teaches operations management and advises graduate student groups in collaborative projects with private industry.  In his research, Dr. Beil develops mathematical models to analyze complex problems impacting online auctions.  His work includes procurement auction design, and investigations of how internet ShopBots affect online auctions.  He is also a published author of mathematical models used in applications of operations management to health care, analyzing therapy sequence scheduling for cancer patients, and he has investigated national organ allocation policies.  
  
Dr. Beil has consulted with over a dozen companies in various aspects of business.  Prior to joining Michigan, Beil received a BA in Mathematics from New College and a PhD in Operations Research from M.I.T.

Randolph Kirchain

Dr. Kirchain received a Ph.D. from MIT. His research focuses on the environmental and economic implications of materials selection.

The choice of material potentially has sweeping implications on the realization of a product. Materials affect not only properties, but also dictate available production processes, and therefore the physical constraints within which a designer must work. Similarly, the synergism of design, materials, and process affect the environmental impacts associated with a product’s manufacture, its use, and its ultimate disposal. As such, understanding the implications of a material selection decision requires understanding throughout the design and production systems.

To address this, Dr. Kirchain’s research deals with two broad topic areas: 1) the development of methods to model the cost of manufacture, using limited design information and 2) the sustainability of current and emerging materials systems. To these ends, Dr. Kirchain has focused on automotive manufacturing systems, including working on projects for all three major automobile manufacturers. These projects include extensive study of the functioning of the system for reclaiming materials from end-of-life vehicles. The specific focus of this work has been to understand the economic implications of changing vehicle composition and emerging policy strictures on the successful operation of this system.

Ozalp Ozer is a faculty member of the Department of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum. His general research interests are design and control of production and distribution systems, management and coordination of global supply chains, pricing and revenue management. His articles have appeared in academic journals such as Management Science, and Operations Research.

Professor Ozer is currently researching how RFID tecnhology affects the management of global supply chains. He is investigating the true value of RFID in replenishment and retail inventory management systems.

Professor Ozer has recently received the Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishment Award from the Production and Operations Management Society in 2004, and the Eugene Grant Teaching Award in Stanford's School of Engineering by vote of students in 2003. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management. He is an active consultant to indsutry and has been invited to present his work in numerous conferences and forums. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Columbia University where he also taught courses in Financial Engineering prior to joining Stanford University.

Beth Pruitt

Professor Pruitt's research interests are in the area of microfabricated sensors for system monitoring and modeling, development of novel processes and devices for observing nanoscale mechanical behavior, and the analysis, design, and control of integrated electro-mechanical systems. She is particularly interested in the biomedical applications of nanofabricated devices with the goal of developing diagnostic tools, measurement and analysis systems, and reliable manufacture methods. This research includes instrumenting and interfacing devices between the micro and macro scale, understanding the scaling properties of physical and material processes and finding ways to reproduce and propagate new technologies efficiently and repeatably at the macro-scale.

Prior to her Ph.D. at Stanford, Beth was an officer in the U.S. Navy. She served as a project manager at the engineering headquarters for U.S. Navy nuclear program supervising submarine reactor fuel removal and refueling projects including oversight of project schedules, manpower, training, and budgets, review of equipment mechanical designs, and engineering evaluation of technical procedures, and also as an instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy teaching systems engineering and sailing.

Dawn M. Tilbury received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992 and 1994, respectively. In 1995, she joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is currently an Associate Professor. For her work in web-based software tutorials (the Control Tutorials for Matlab), she received an Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science Award from the US Department of Energy in 1995 and the EDUCOM Medal (jointly with Professor William Messner of Carnegie Mellon University) in 1997. An expanded version, Control Tutorials for Matlab and Simulink, was published by Addison-Wesley in 1999.  She recently co-authored a book "Feedback Control of Computing Systems" with J. L. Hellerstein, Y. Diao and S. Parekh. She received an NSF CAREER award in 1999, and is the 2001 recipient of the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council. She is a member of ASME, IEEE, and SWE, and is an elected member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors. Her research interests include distributed control of mechanical systems with network communication, logic control of manufacturing systems, and performance management and control of computing systems. During her sabbatical leave in 2001-02, she was an Academic Visitor at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York and a Visiting Professor at ITIA-CNR in Milan, Italy.