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Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing | MIT Affiliated Students

Benyue Liu

benyue@MIT.EDU | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: Assessing and Reducing the Complexity of Hybrid Vehicle Control Software System

Brian Hohmann

bhohmann@mit.edu | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: Design optimization of friction stir welded (FSW) aerospace components

Catarina Bjelkengren

cat2006@alum.mit.edu | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: The Impact of Massdecompounding on Assessing the Value of Vehicle Lightweighting

Links: http://web.mit.edu/cat2006/www/ | http://msl1.mit.edu/msl/index.shtml

Chuan Shi

chuanshi@mit.edu | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: Optimal Design of Production Lines

Research interests: Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Operations Research

Other interests: Soccer, Music

Links:http://web.mit.edu/chuanshi/www/, http://web.mit.edu/manuf-sys/www/

David Broniatowski

sabrevln@mit.edu | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: Multi-stakeholder decision-making, Health care innovation diffusion, Linguistic framing, Semantic analysis techniques

Ece Gulsen

ece@MIT.EDU | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: Capturing Uncertainityin Biofuels for Transportation. Resolving Environmental Performance and Enabling Improved Use

Hadi Zaklouta

zaklouta@MIT.EDU | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: Cost Model of Joining Technologies and Assembly of EV Battery Pack

Jonathan Evans

jevans6@mit.edu | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: Decision-Making in Engineering Design

Research interests: Product development and the design process in general; Energy systems; Mechanics of materials

Other interests: Kayaking; Rock climbing; Tae Kwon Do

Links: http://web.mit.edu/jevans6/www/

Katherine Chu

k_chu@MIT.EDU | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: Technology Decisions in Paint: Examining Tradeoffs in Economic and Environmental Costs

Melissa Zgola

mzgola@MIT.EDU | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: Environmental Assessment of ICT Products

Nathan Fleming

flemingn@MIT.EDU | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: The Effect of a Secondary Metals Market on Price Volatility

Sarah Reed

sbreed@mit.edu | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research area/topic: Prof. David Wallace’s CadLab, Cork Composite Project. The team is working to develop new uses for cork composite, specifically in the direction of materials for wind turbine blades. We began by characterizing cork composite made from cork and epoxy resin, and have moved on to fabrication techniques. Cork composite has the possibility to be a good choice for wind turbine blades because it is light, strong and can be cast into many different geometries.

Susan Fredholm

fredholm@alum.mit.edu | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: Electronic Waste Recycling

Communications/Conference presentations:

  • S. Fredholm, J. Gregory and R. Kirchain. “Characterizing Architectural Options for Electronic Waste Recycling Systems.” in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics & the Environment, San Francisco CA. May 2008
  • J. Dahmus, S. Fredholm, E. Olivetti, J. Gregory and R Kirchain. “Modeling the Economic and Environmental Performance of Recycling Systems.” in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics & the Environment, San Francisco CA. May 2008
  • T. Gutowski et al. “Environmental Life Style Analysis.” in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics & the Environment, San Francisco CA. May 2008
  • S. Fredholm, J. Gregory and R Kirchain. “Economic Metrics for Eco-Efficient Recycling.” Presentation at the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics & the Environment, Orlando FL. May 2007.

Thomas Rand-Nash

trand@MIT.EDU | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: The Impact of Competitive Learning on Technology Choice in Electric Vehicle Battery Assembly

Travis Miller

trmiller@MIT.EDU | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: Electronic Waste Export Investigations

Trisha Montalbo

trisha@mit.edu | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

Research topic/area: Costs and benefits of reducing vehicle weight

William Palm

wjpalm@mit.edu | MIT | Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing

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