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Graduate Students Supervision of Stephen C-Y. Lu

 
 

1. At the University of Southern California (USC) – from 1995 to date

Ph.D. Degrees Granted (All Major Thesis Advisor): 3

  • Moshe Weiler; 1998 ISE; A Dynamic Negotiation Model to Maximize Customer Satisfaction in a Product Design Process; Major General in the Israeli Army
  • Ping Christine Ge; 2001 AME; Collaborative Negotiation for Early Stage Parametric Design of Mechanical Systems; Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Oregon State University
  • James Jan Cai; 2002 AME; A Socio-Technical Approach to Support Collaborative Engineering Design; Associate Profesor at Peiking University, Beijing, China

Ph.D. Thesis Students Supervised at Present (All Major Thesis Advisor): 6

  • William Burkette; Spring 1997 ISE; Information Modeling for a Semantic Web Network to Support Collaborative Engineering; Took a leave from USC in 2001 due to full-time job requirements – degree study to be resumed
  • Nan Jin; Summer 2001 CS; Perspective Modeling within a Socio-Technical Framework for Collaborative Engineering Design; Past CS PhD qualifying exam in Fall 2002; Took the thesis proposal exam in Fall 2003
  • Anna Qingfeng Li; Fall 2003 CS; Basic Research in Collaborative Engineering Theory and Methodology; Will take the CS PhD qualifying exam in Spring 2005
  • Daisy Hui Wang; Fall 2004 ISE; Negotiation Methodologies for Collaborative Engineering; Will take the ISE PhD qualifying exam in Spring 2005
  • Norman Voo; Fall 2004 ISE; Joint Decision Methodologies for Collaborative Engineering; Will take the ISE PhD qualifying exam in Spring 2005
  • Aaron Hungfuch Chang; Fall 2004 CS; Engineering Activity Theory and Its Application to Software Engineering; Will take the CS PhD qualifying exam in Fall 2005

Ph.D. Thesis Committees Served (Thesis Committee Member): 4

  • Jianxin Jiao; 1999 IE (HKUST); Design for Mass Customization by Developing Product FamilyArchitecture; Assistant Professor, Signapore National University
  • Mahammad Reza Danesh; 2001 ME; A Framework for Value-Based Engineering Design; Senior Engineer, Schaeffer Automated Simulation Inc.
  • Kailu Wang; 2002 ME; An Analytical Approach to Function Design; Freelance Technical Consultant
  • Rajkumar Palanna; 2002 ISE; Model-based Tampering for Improved Process Performance: Application to Surface Grinding of Shafts Manufacturing and Quality Engineering; Manager and Master Six-Sigma Black-Belt, Honeywell Inc.

M.S. Degrees Granted (All Major Thesis Advisor): 7

  • Addul Fakir, AME, Spring 1996.
  • Rebecca Schaeffer, ISE, Fall 1996.
  • Shanshin Chen, ISE, Fall 1996.
  • Shinji Yuasa, AME, Fall 1997.
  • Da Li, AME, Fall 1996.
  • Vijesh Coimbatore, ISE, Spring 1997.
  • Du Li, AME, Fall 2000.

M.S. Thesis Students Supervised at Present (All Major Thesis Advisor): 1

  • Rohit Chauhan Fall 2002 AME A New Product Development of An Unique Square-Hole Making Process and Machine

Post-Doctoral (PD) Research Fellows and Visiting Faculty (VF) Supervised: (partial list)

  • Les Gasser; Visiting Faculty; 1995-1997; Computer-support Collaborative Work; Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Arthur Baski;n Visiting Faculty; 1995-1999; Engineering as Collaborative Negotiation; CEO and President, the IIT International, Inc.
  • Ding Hong; Post-Doc; 1995-1996; Knowledge Processing Technology; Research fellow, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
  • Yun Z. Chen; Visiting Scholar; 1996-1997; China-USC Scholars Exchange program; Chairman and CEO, GF Securities, Inc.
  • Ramish Ganeshan; Post-Doc; 1996-1999; Conflict Management in Collaborative Engineerin;g Senior Researcher, Information Science Institute, USC
  • Ling Peng; Visiting Scholar; 2000-2001; China-USA Scholarship Program; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, People’ Republic of China

2. At the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) – from 1984 to 1995

Ph.D. Degrees Granted (All Major Thesis Advisor): 13

  • Daniel Tortorelli; 1988 ME; Design Sensitivity Analysis for Nonlinear Dynamic Thermo-elastic Systems; Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993 NSF NYI Awardee
  • Sridhar Subramanyam; 1989 ME; Computer-aided Simultaneous Engineering for Components Manufactured in Small and Medium Lot-sizes; Senior Research Engineer, Technical Center, General Motors Company
  • Srikanth Sundararajan; 1990 EE; A Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving Framework: ISM Prototype;
  • Research Engineer, Boeing Computer Systems, the Boeing Company
  • James Thompson; 1990 ME; Design Evolution Management: A Design Methodology for Representing and Utilizing Design Rationale; Division Director, Product Development, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
  • Brad Whitehall; 1990 CS; Knowledge-based Learning: Integration of Deductive and Inductive Learning for Knowledge Base Completion; Senior Research Scientist, the Science Applications International Corporation
  • Robert Wilhelm; 1991 ME; Computer Methods for Design Tolerance Synthesis; Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte.1994 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers; and 1994 NSF NYI Awardee
  • James Hall; 1992 ME; Emulating Human Process Control Functions with Neural Networks; Director, Technical Center, John Deere and Co.
  • R. Bharat Rao; 1993 EE; KEDS: A Knowledge-based Equation Discovery System for Learning in Engineering Domains; Senior Research Engineer, CAD Solutions Group, Siemens Medical Solutions, USA.
  • David Cheng; 1993 CS; Building Layered Models to Support Engineering Decision Making: A Machine Learning Approach; Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Mike Case; 1994 ME; The Discourse Model for Collaborative Engineering Design: A Distributed and Asynchronous Approach; Division Director, Faculty and Systems Management Division, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Corps of Engineers, the US Army
  • David Mattox; 1994 CS; Managing Causal Dependencies in an Active Objct-Oriented Database; Senior Research Scientist, the MITRE Corporation
  • Sudhakar Reddy; 1994 ME; Hierarchical and Interactive Parameter Refinement for Early Stage System Design; Manager, New Product Development Department, Rockwell International, Inc.
  • David Chazin; 1995 CS; SWIFT: System Workbench for Integrating and Facilitating Teams; Senior Research Engineer, the T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
  • Allen Herma;n 1995 ME; Computer Methods for Distributed Reasoning to Support Concurrent Engineering; Chief Engineer, Powertrain Systems Division, Ford Motors Company.1992 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Post-Doctoral (PD) Research Fellows and Visiting Faculty (VF) Supervised: 4

  • Guanming Zhang; Post-Doc; 1987-1989; Modeling of Machining Processes Professor, the University of Maryland at College Park
  • Dragan Domazet; Visiting Faculty; 1987; Computer-aided Process Planning; Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, Federal Republic of Siberia
  • K. K. Cho; VisitingFaculty; 1988; Knowledge-based Systems for Engineering Automation; Dean of Engineering, Pusan University, Pusan, Keora
  • Chen-Tai Li; Visiting Fcaulty; 1989; Expert Systems for Engineering Professor, National Cheng-Kun University, Taiwan

Ph.D. Thesis Committee Served (Committee Member): 19

  • Paul Neilson, Fall 1988.
  • Shih-Chieh Lin, Spring 1989.
  • Mark Klein, Fall 1989.
  • Carl Urik, Fall 1989.
  • Satheesh Menon, Fall 1990.
  • Biing T. Guan, Spring 1991.
  • Renee Lange, Fall 1990.
  • Dennis M. DeCoste, Spring 1991.
  • John Collins, Spring 1991.
  • Hyeon-Kyeong Kim, Spring 1991.
  • Youngwan Lee, Spring 1991.
  • G. Won Lee, Fall 1991.
  • Khaled Al-Dharer, Spring 1991.
  • Young-Tack Park, Fall 1991.
  • Robert Reinke, Fall 1991.
  • Ivan B. H. Lee, Spring 1992.
  • John Bentrup, Spring 1992.
  • Larry Watanabe, Spring 1992.
  • Lee Boon Hong, National University of Singapore, Fall 1992 (external examiner)

M.S. Degrees Granted (All Major Thesis Advisor): 14

  • Bradly Gustafson, 1986.
  • Thomas Brand, 1987.
  • Alan Mayer, 1987.
  • Holly Armitage, 1987.
  • Srikanth Sandararajan, 1988.
  • Mike Case, 1988.
  • Dave Fathauer, 1988.
  • Allen Herman, 1989.
  • Bruce Ferguson, 1990.
  • Xingming Zhu, 1991.
  • Steve Schwarz, 1992.
  • Mike Silliman, 1994.
  • John Tanquary, 1994.
  • Marty Lucenti, 1994.

 

 
 
 

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