MSL Alumni

2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009

2000

Christopher P. Henry
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
Competitive strategies of the Portuguese autoparts industry : case studies of manufacturing technologies and logistics

Harald Hoegh
Materials Science & Engineering, S.B.
An economic analysis of aluminum sheet production and prospects of aluminum for the automotive unibody

Mon-Fen Hong
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
Implications of regulation and policy on economics of vehicle recycling

Ashish S. Kelkar
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Analysis of aluminum in auto body designs and its strategic implications for the aluminum industry

Justin I-Hao Kung
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Strategic evaluation of the development of 42V automobile electrical systems using multi-attribute utility analysis

Deidre Pettigrew
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Evaluation of the structure of automotive environmental regulatory policy

Gilles J. Schlienger
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
Future of composite applications in the automotive industry

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2001

Bruce A. Constantine
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
Tubular hydroforming of advanced steel and aluminum alloys : an economic evaluation using technical cost modeling

Alexandra Frangi
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Lightweight body designs and enablers for alternative powertrain technologies : understanding cost and environmental performance tradeoffs

Jon M. Fromelt
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
Capacity optimization and factory operations improvement

Harald Hoegh
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
Cisco Systems cost analysis initiatives for manufacturing and test of circuit boards and systems

Fabien E. Naud
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Customer Value Management : technology perspective and policy implications

Randall J. Urbance
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
The impact of increased automotive interest on the world magnesium market : dynamic material market simulation

Francisco Veloso
Technology & Policy Program, Ph.D.
Local content requirements and industrial development: economical analysis and cost modeling of the automotive supply chain

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2002

Vladimir G. Manuel
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Consequences of the genomic revolution for the regulation of the Internet

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2003

Siddarth Bammi
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
A methodology for economic analysis and cost modeling of assembly ramp-up strategies for the automotive industry

Alexandre Cosquer
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Optimizing the reuse of light metals from end-of-life vehicles

Erica R.H. Fuchs
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
The significance of production cost inputs in regional technology choice : composite automotive body-in-whites in the US versus China

Seward E. Matwick
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
An economic evaluation of sheet hydroforming and low volume stamping and the effects of manufacture systems analysis

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2004

Colleen Beth Akehurst
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
The benefits of structured training on manufacturing process ramp-up : a process based cost model approach

Christopher William Hardin
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Effect of automotive electrical system changes on fuel consumption using incremental efficiency methodology

Michael DeShawn Johnson
Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D.
A methodology for determining engineering costs and their effects on the development of product families

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2005

Jennifer Robinson Atlee
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Operational sustainability metrics : a case of electronics recycling

Nicholas Chiang
Materials Science & Engineering, M.Eng.
Quantifying the economic potential of a biomass to olefin technology

Delphine Dantec
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Analysis of the cost of recycling compliance for the automobile industry

Laetitia Fournier
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
A methodology to assess cost implications of automotive customization

Justin D. Ging
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
Implementation of a manufacturing process platform

Genta Gusho
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
Understanding the economics and material platform of bidirectional transceiver for plastic optical fiber

Preston Pui-Chuen Li
Materials Science & Engineering, Ph.D.
Strategies for aluminum recycling : insights from material system optimization

Jeffrey C. Povelaites
Materials Science & Engineering, M.Eng.
Characterizing cost and performance of flexibility strategies in autobody manufacturing

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2006

Craig Bennett Abler
Sloan School of Management/Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
Material evaluation and selection processes to enable design for manufacture

Erica R.H. Fuchs
Engineering Systems Division, Ph.D.
The impact of manufacturing offshore on technology development paths in the automotive and optoelectronics industries

Matthew J. Hasik
Civil & Environmental Engineering, S.M.
An analysis of motor vehicle assembly plant complexity : developing a framework to evaluate the existence of a complexity threshold

Julie R. Paquette
Civil & Environmental Engineering, S.M.
The supply chain response to environmental pressures

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2007

Ashish M. Kar
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
A cost modeling approach using learning curves to study the evolution of technology

Jonathan S. Krones
Materials Science & Engineering, S.B.
Reverse logistics and large-scale material recovery from electronics waste

Christopher W. Leitz
Sloan School of Management/Electrical Engineering & Computer Science/Leaders for Manufacturing Program, M.B.A./S.M.
Life cycle cost modeling of automotive paint systems

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2008

Sappinandana Akamphon
Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D.
Enabling effective product launch decisions

Catarina Bjelkengren
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
Engineering Systems, S.M.
The impact of mass decompounding on assessing the value of vehicle lightweighting

Robert Cirincione
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
A study of optimal automtoive materials choice given market and regulatory uncertainty

Susan Fredholm
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Evaluating electronic waste recycling systems: the influence of physical architecture on system performance

Yaoqi Li
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
Analytical study and cost mdeling of secondary aluminum consumption for allow producers uner uncertain demands

Shan Liu
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Process based cost modeling of emerging optoelectronic interconnects: implications for material platform choice

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2009

Jennifer Feng
Materials Science & Engineering, S.B.
The Influence of Fuel Price on an Automaker's Decision to Lightweight Cars via Materials Substitution

Gabrielle Gaustad
Materials Science & Engineering, Ph.D.
Computation for Design & Optimization, S.M.
Towards Sustainable Material Usage: Time-Dependent Evaluation of Upgrading Technologies for Recycling

Johann Komander
Materials Science & Engineering, S.B.
An Approach to Modeling the Cost-Strength-Weight Tradeoff in Aluminum and Magnesium Extrusions for Automotive Applications

Marie-Claude Nadeau
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Evaluating Manufacturing Flexibility Driven by Learning

Anna Nicholson
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Mechanical Engineering, S.M.
Methods for managing uncertainty in material selection decisions: Robustness of early stage Life Cycle Assessment

Thomas Rand-Nash
Technology & Policy Program, S.M.
Materials Science & Engineering, S.M.
Characterizing Capital and Operational Tradeoffs Resulting from Fiber-to-the-Home Optical Network Architecture Choice

Christopher Whitfield
Materials Science & Engineering, S.B.
An Exploration of Automotive Platinum Demand and its Impacts on the Platinum Market

Yingxia Yang
Engineering Systems, Ph.D.
A Screening Model to Explore Planning Decisions in Automotive Manufacturing Systems under Demand Uncertainty

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