Decision-Based Design (PDF)

Astronautics (AIAA). She is an elected member of the ASME Design Engineering Division Executive Committee and an elected Advisory Board member of the Design Society.  Author of the book "Decision Making in Engineering Design" (co-edited with Lewis, K. and Schmidt, L.) and over 190 technical papers, Chen is an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and serves as the review editor of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.  In the past, she was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Optimization (07-09).

Christopher Hoyle is currently an Assistant Professor and the Arthur E. Hitsman Faculty Scholar in the area of Design in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Oregon State University. His current research interests are focused upon decision making in engineering design, with emphasis on the early design phase when uncertainty is high and the potential design space is large. His research contributions are to the field of Decision-Based Design, specifically in linking consumer preferences and enterprise-level objectives with the engineering design process. His areas of expertise are uncertainty propagation methodologies, Bayesian statistics and modeling, stochastic consumer choice modeling, optimization and design automation.  Hoyle received his PhD from Northwestern University in Mechanical Engineering in 2009, his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1994, and his BS degree in General Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988. He served as an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology in 2009 and was a Summer Intern at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center in 2006. He was previously a Design Engineer and an Engineering Manager at Motorola, Inc. for 10years before enrolling in the PhD program at Northwestern University.

 

Henk Jan Wassenaar is a Senior Scientist at Zilliant, Inc. specializing in developing pricing models for business to business markets for Fortune 500 companies.  He previously worked at J.D. Power and Associates conducting analysis of the automotive industry including an approach to incentives and demand modeling.  Wassenaar received his PhD from University of Illinois at Chicago in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research in 2003 and his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology in 2000.