Product Development Research Laboratory

AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Ali Yassine

Director, Product Development Research Laboratory

Assistant Professor of General Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - UIUC

313 Transportation Building

104 S. Mathews Avenue

Urbana, IL 61801

Tel: (217) 333-8765

Fax: (217) 244-6165

Email: yassine@uiuc.edu

http://www.iese.uiuc.edu/pdlab/yassine/

Education:

Ph.D., Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Wayne State University, 1994

M.S., Industrial Engineering, Wayne State University, 1989.

B.E., Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1988.

Research Interest:

Prof. Yassine's research deals with the interdisciplinary issues of developing and managing complex engineering systems. This research is motivated by a lack of formal PD models in the engineering/operations management literature and practice. His research concentrates on this gap by using quantitative techniques to formulate and analyze an emerging set of PD problems, including the management of iteration, overlapping decisions, system decomposition & integration, and information technology enabled PD.

Joe Bradley

PhD Student in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering

Email: jabradly@uiuc.edu

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jabradly/www/

Education:

MBA., Business Administration, UIUC, 2004.

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, 2001

Minor, Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University, 2001

B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1995.

Research Interest:

Investigation of the deployment characteristics of university-based technologies into the marketplace. Whether the technology is disruptive or sustaining, the commercialization channel will have a significant impact. Understanding these characteristics can provide guidelines on how to manage the transition of these technologies to the appropriate channel, via a startup company or market leader (incumbent).

Luke Wissmann

PhD Student in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering

Email: wissmann@students.uiuc.edu

Education:

M.S., General Engineering, UIUC, 2000.

B.S., Industrial Engineering, UIUC, 1998.

Research Interest:

Decisions throughout the PD process should be data and information driven with intuition used to ask if the data driven solution “makes sense”.

Luke's general interest in PD systems lies in the development of models and tools that help PD professionals make data driven decisions that reduce waste caused by random-walks, trial-and-error, or "best-guess" decisions. His specific interests are in Design for Six Sigma, Strategic Experimentation, Product Planning and Product Architecture.

Mahmood Al-Kindi

PhD Student in Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering

Email: alkindi2@uiuc.edu

Education:

M.S., Industrial Engineering, Louisiana State University, .

B.S., Industrial Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, .

Publications

Sarker, B., Al-Kindi, M., "Optimal ordering policies in response to a discount offer," International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 103, Issue 2, October 2006.
 

Research Interest:

Mahmood is currently investigating Stage-gate systems in the product development process.

Yong Jin Kim

PhD Student in Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering

Email: ykim94@uiuc.edu

Education:

M.S., Industrial Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, (2004).

B.S., Industrial Engineering, Department of Industrial Information System Engineering. Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, (2002)

Research Interest:

Software architecture recovery

Karthik Rapaka

MS Student in Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering

Email: vrapaka2@uiuc.edu

Education:

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Rutgers University, 2005.

Research Interest:

Karthik Rapaka graduated with honors from Rutgers – the State University of New Jersey, where he received a BS degree majoring in Mechanical Engineering and is currently a second year M.S. degree candidate in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As an undergraduate researcher at Rutgers University, he worked on the synthesis of novel nanomaterials using combustion techniques and he presented his collaborated work at several national and international conferences. At UIUC, he was a member of a team that recently made an innovation disclosure in the area of nanofabrication for a pending US patent. He also worked as a consultant at the Illinois Business Consulting doing market segmentation analysis for products in professional hair salon industry. During the recent summer, he interned at Caterpillar Inc. where he developed analytical models for failure detection in several agricultural machines and engines manufactured and sold by Caterpillar around the globe. During the same summer, he also attended a month-long program at Stanford Graduate School of Business and received a certificate in general management from the Summer Institute.

Kailash Kotwani

MS Student in Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering

Email: kotwani2@uiuc.edu

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/kotwani2/www/index.html

Education:

B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2003.

Research Interest:

Diego Andres Batallas

MS student in Industrial Engineering

Email: batallas@uiuc.edu

Education:

B.S., Industrial Engineering, Universidad San Francisco de Quito Ecuador, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1999.

Throughout the product development stages different networks are created. Specifically, the interaction between components, tasks and teams during a new product development can be represented and analyzed with networks techniques. In addition, nowadays there is a great interest in understanding the inherent properties of dynamic and self-organized networks such as in scale free and small world networks. As a consequence, my research focuses on the analysis of product development networks and the application of scale free and small world models to them.

Susheel Tenguria

MS student in General Engineering

Email: tenguria@uiuc.edu

Education:

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, India Institute of Technology, 2002.

Research Interest:

Susheel's is basically interested in developing a product
development tool like DSM, Signposting. In design, there is
no fixed path to reach the goal as goal is not visible. The
changes has to be made all the time and we have to come up with solutions which help in achieving the success in design faster and cheaper and better. His aim in this regard is to develop a method or tool using control systems which will enable product development more efficiently.

Jian Zhu

MS student in General Engineering

Email: jianzhu@uiuc.edu

Web: www.students.uiuc.edu/~jianzhu

Education:

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2001.

Research Interest:

Jian's long term research interest is to use mathematical models to assist in understanding and managing engineering and business systems. Currently, he is working on practical problems in Product Development.

Effective product development is a key source of advantage in today's fast changing environment. His research is focused on improving the planning and controlling of large scale and complex product development projects. Quantitative techniques, such as linear programming, integer programming, dynamic programming, stochastic modeling, and linear and nonlinear systems theory, are used intensively.

Anneliese Herzog

Combined MBA & MS Student in General Engineering

Email: aherzog@uiuc.edu

Education:

B.S., General Engineering, UIUC, 2002.

Research Interest:

Ana’s research interests are in automotive engineering and product development.  Her thesis research is with Ford Motor Company on an aspect of Engine Calibration and vehicle design using a Design Structure Matrix.

Andy Williams

MS Student in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering

Email: apwillia@uiuc.edu

Education:

B.S., Industrial Engineering, UIUC, 1999.

Research Interest:

Game theoretic modeling of cooperation between Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and After Market Suppliers (AMS).