M. S. in Computer Science, University of South Carolina,1979.
B. E. (Honors) in Chemical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, 1976.
Research Scientist, Engineering Design Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University.(Sept. 87 - April 1993)
Research Associate, Engineering Design Research Center, Carnegie Mellon University. (Sept. 85 - Sept. 87)
Instructor, Management Information Systems, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University. (Sept. 1984 - Sept. 85)
Coordinator of Computer Services, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University, 1981.
Trainee Design Engineer, M. N. Dastur & Company, Consulting Engineers, Calcutta, India. (May 1976-Aug. 1976)
Developed and taught a Short half day course on ``Communication Issues in International R&D Management for Senior R&D executives at the Carnegie Bosch Institute, Fall 96.
Developed the course in Design Theory and Methodology (with Profs Arthur Westerberg and Sarosh Talukdar); taught in Spring 1990 and Spring 91.
Developed a course in Decision Support Systems, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University; taught in Spring of 1985.
Developed a introductory course in Data Bases, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University; taught in Fall 1984.
Developed a course on Special Topics in Data Bases, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University; taught in Spring 1983.
Taught a course on Management Information Systems in Government, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Fall 1982.
Developed and taught courses in Fortran and Pascal programming,School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University; taught in Fall 1980 and Fall 1981.
| Course Number | Course Title | Units | Class | # of Students | Offered | Course | Instructor | |
| 39-705 | Des. Theory & Methedology | 12 | Sr-Gr | 8 | Sp.90 | 3.71 | 3.71 | |
| 90-739 | Decision Sup. Sys. | 12 | Gr | 13 | Sp.85 | 3.40 | 3.10 | |
| 90-716 | Data Base Mgt. Sys. | 12 | Gr | 20 | Fa.84 | 2.90 | 2.50 | |
| 90-716 | Topics in DBMS | 12 | Gr | 11 | Sp.83 | 4.00 | 4.30 | |
Douglas Cunningham, Chemical Engineering, `` End-user programming in Engineering Information Spaces'', Expected completion, 1998.
Milliken, Russel, Chemical Engineering, `` Rules and events in Engineering Information Spaces'', Expected completion, 1999.
Dutoit, Allen, ``Role of Communication in Software Projects," Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1996.
Thomas, Mark, Chemical Engineering, `` Tool-integration in n-dim'', 1995.
Hall, Mark, Engineering and Public Policy, "Models of Concurrent Engineering", May 1993.
Jayant Kalagnanam, Engineering and Public Policy, "Qualitative Analysis of System Behavior", May 1991.
Ravi Prakash Gorthi, Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, "Data and Control Flow in Production Systems", 1993.
"Rapid Design and Manufacturing", Special Issue on Manufacturing, Communications of the ACM, (with S.finger, M..Terk, et,al.), January 1996.
``Concurrent Engineering happens at the interfaces'', (Susan Finger, Suresh Konda)q, AIEDAM, 1995.
``New Roles for Machine Learning in Design'', (with Yoram Reich, Ira Monarch, Sean Levy and Suresh Konda), Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Special Issue on Machine Learning, 1993
``Why Equations Aren't Enough: Informal Modeling in Design, " (with Konda, S. L., Levy, S., Reich, Y., Westerberg, A), AIEDAM, 1993.
``Shared Memory: A Unifying Theme for Design Research and Practice,'' (with Konda, S. L., Monarch, I., Sargent, P.), Research in Engieering Design, Special Issue on Design in Human Context, H. Petroski, (ed), Spring 1992.
``Mapping socio-technical Network,'' in Social Science, Co-opertive and Technical System, (with Ira Monarch, Sean Levy, Yoram Reich, Carol Ulrich), Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996.
``Participation in Design: An Extended View,'' (with Y. Reich, S. L. Konda, I. Monarch), in the Proceedings of the Particpatory Design Conference: PDC 92 (Cambridge, MA), Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, 1992. Extended version of this paper is accepted subject to revision to Journal of Informatiuon Systems, Special Issue on Computers and Social Science. Resubmitted, July 1993.
``A Design System for Concurrent Engineering of Transformers, (with S. Finger and E. Gardner), in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 93, August 93,The Hague.
``Learning in Engineering Design: An EDRC (U.S.) Perspective'', (with Yoram Reich,Robert Coyne, Ajay Modi, and David Steier), Submitted to the First International Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Engineering Design, July 1991.
"Staffing and Allocation of Workers in an Administrative Office" (with Gordon Lewis, Ashok Srinivasan), Submitted to Management Science, July 1990. Revised in 1993 and revised Nov. 1996.
"A Generator Program for Discrete Event Systems" (with R. L. Cannon), Simulation, Vol. 18(3), March 1981.
"Diagnosis of a Complex Machine: Integration of Evidential reasoning with Causal Reasoning and Quantitative Simulation", (with M. D. Rychener, J. Wiss and, S. Laskey), in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers and Mechanical Engineering, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, August 1988.
``Materials Information and Conceptual Data Modeling'', (with Philip Sargent, Mary Downs, Diane Rishel, Reid Greene), In Computerization andNetworking of Materials Databases: Third Volume, ASTM STP 1140, Barry, T. I., and Reynard, K. W. (eds), American Soceity for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, 1992.
"An Alternate Model for Dynamic Traffic Assignment for Congested Traffic Networks", (with Malachy Carey). Proceedings of the the 6th World conference on Transport Research, Lyon, France, July, 1993.
"CINERG - A Discovery Experiment in Collaborative Product Development", (With the CINERG group), Proceedings of the NSF Engineering Design Research Conference, June 1989.
"Analysis of Eligibility Determination Interview: A Planning Approach", Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-83, Aug. 1983
"Energy Efficiency in Chemical Industry" (with R. U. Ayers and A. Werner), in R. A. Fazzolare and G. B. Smith, Beyond the Energy Crisis: Opportunity and Challenge , Third International Conference on Energy Use Management, Berlin, October 1981, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1981.
``Conceptual Modelling of Materials Information in an R&D Environment'', (with Philip Sargent, Mary downs, Diane Rishel, Reid Greene), Proceedings of ACM-NIST Conference on Integration of Databases in Organizations, Washington D.C., June 1991.
"A Hybrid Model for Helicopter Engine Trouble-Shooting ", (with M. D. Rychener, J. Wiss and, S. Laskey), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Engineering, August 1987.
"WELDS - Welfare Eligibility Determination System: An Expert System in an Administrative Domain", Proceedings of the IEEE Expert Systems in Government Conference, October 23-25, 1985.
"A Rule-Based Blackboard Kernel System: Some Principles in Design" (with M. D. Rychener and R. Banares-Alcantara), Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Principles of Knowledge-Based Systems. December 1984.
``Computer Support for Shared Memory,'' (with Konda, S. L., Levy, S., Monarch, I., Reich, Y., Westerberg, A.), in Automation Based Creative Design: Issues in Computers and Architecture, Tzonis, A. and White, I. (eds),(in Press), Elsevier Publishers, 1993.
Shared Memory in Design: Theory and Practice, (with Monarch, I., Konda, S. L., Levy, S., Reich, Y., Ulrich, C.), Proceedings od the Invitational Workshop on Social Science Research, technical systems and cooperative work, Centre National Researche (CNRS), Paris, France, March, 1993
Notes on Empirical Studies in Design, An invited position paper for the NSF-Xerox Workshop on Information Capture and Access in Engineering Design, November, 1991, Xerox Design Research Institute, Cornell University, Nov., 1992.
"Towards Shared Information models in Engineering Design", EDRC Report, 12-36-89, April 1989. (with A. W. Westerberg, Gregg Podnar), In Lecture Notes in Collaborative Product Development, D. Sriram (ed), Springer Verlag, 1991.
"Dr. Thevenin: An Intelligent Tutoring System for Electrical Circuits", (with Sarosh Talukdar and William Mullen)., Knowledge Based Systems in Engineering, D. Sriram, editor. Also available as EDRC Working Paper Series, EDRC-05-12-87.
"Knowledge-based Dynamic Hypertext for Decision Making and Rule modification in Administrative Law", (with Ira Monarch), Proceedings IJCAI-89 Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition tools and applications, 1989.
"A Shared Computational environment for Concurrent Engineering", (with G. Podnar and A. Westerberg), Proceedings of the 2nd National Symposium on Concurrent Engineering, CERC, WVA, Feb.7-9, 1990.
"A Future Computer Environment for Preliminary Design, (with A. W. Westerberg, P. Piela, G. Podnar and W. Elm), Proceedings of the Conference on the Foundations of Computer aided Process Design, Snowmass, CO, 1989.
"Towards Shared Information Models in Engineering Design", (with A. W. Westerberg, Gregg Podnar), EDRC Report, 12-36-89, April 1989.
Final report to NSF, CINERG-1: Consortium for Integration of Engineering Research Groups, (With the CINERG group),1989.
``Welfare Eligibility Determination Systems: An Architecture for an Expert system in an Administrative Domain, Phd Thesis, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University, December 1987.
"Intelligent Computer Based Tutors for Bottlenecks in Engineering: Final Report",(with S. N. Talukdar), Final report to the Fund for Improvement of Post Secondary Education, Department of Education, April 1987.)
"Validation of Expert Systems: Two Perspectives",(with Joseph G. Davis), EDRC Working Paper Series EDRC-05-11-87 , Jan 87.
EDRC Software and Hardware Manual, (with M. D. Rychener, R. Edahl and R Woodbury), Engineering Design Research Center, CMU, 1987.
"A Simulation model for the Southern District County Assistance Office", (with Gordon Lewis and John Mercer), a report to the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, May 1982.
"Energy Efficiency in Chemical Industry" (with R. U. Ayers and A. Werner). A report prepared for the Mellon Institute, Energy Productivity Center under DOE contract 31-109-38-5412, October 7,1981.
A Program Generator for Discrete Event Systems, Masters Thesis, University of South Carolina, 1979.
Information flow analysis of ABB Kraft, Switchgear Design, ABB, Skien, Norway.
Information flow Analysis of Hydro Power Design at Drummen, ABB Internal Report, Sept, 1993, ABB Corporate Research Norway.
A Conceptual Architecture for Concurrent Engineering of Transfomers, ABB, 1992. (with Navin Chandra, Susan Finger and Eric Gardner).
Co-Principal Investigator, Collaborative Open Design Systems, DARPA, $2.1 Million, April 1996 - Dec. 1999. (with Sarosh Talukdar, Daniel Siewiorek)
Principal Investigator, ``Recording Engineering Design Sessions'', $120,000, ALCOA. Pittsburgh.
Principal Investigator, Advanced Concurrent Engineering Projcet, ABB Power Transformers, $240,000, 1995.
Investigator, ACORN: A Collaborative Open Resource Network, Proposal to ARPA MADE program, (With Fritz Prinz and others in collaboration with Enterprise Integration Technologies), $2,100,000 for Sept 1993- Sept 1996.
Principal Investigator, Advanced Concurrent Engineering Projcet, ABB Power Transformers, $350,000, 1993 and $150,000 till June 1994.
Principal Investigator, Advanced Concurrent Engineering Projcet, ABB Power Transformers, $400,000, 1992.
Co-Principal Invetisgator, The n-dim project, Supported through the n-dim Consortium on Information modeling, (Members: Ford, GM, EDS, ABB, UTC), $115,000, 92-93.
Principal Investigator, "Development of ALCOA Technical Center Wide Technical Data Management System", ALCOA Technical Center, $75,000, awarded as part of laboratory partnership to EDRC, 1990 & 1991.
Associate Investigator, "Shared Environments for Design", $110,000, A. Westerberg, Principal Investigator, Danforth Initiative, Westinghouse Corporation, 1988-1989.
Co-Principle Investigator, continuation of funding from Avco-Lycoming, with M.D.Rychener and J. Wiss, $ 120,000, July 1987 - June 1988.
Co-Principal Investigator, "Continuation of Development and Implementation of a Prototype Engine Diagnostic Expert System", with M.D. Rychener, J. Wiss, Avco-Lycoming Textron, $120,000, July 1986 - June 1987.
Associate Investigator, "Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Bottlenecks in Science and Engineering", with Sarosh Talukdar, Principal Investigator, Fund for Improvement of Secondary Education, Department of Education. Jan 1985 - Dec. 1986.
Invited participant, Workshop on Engineering and Social Sciences, Norwegian Technical Univeirsity, Trondheim, June 1996.
Invited Panelist, "Business Process Re-engineering," Business Process Resources Center, University of Warwick, Coventry UK, May 1996.
Invited, Talk, "The n-dim Project", Session on Future of PDM systems, SME Conference, Minneapolis, June 1996
Invited Talk, ``Geographically Distributed Design'', Corporate Research Center, Robert Bosch GMBH, Schillerhohe, Germany, December 17, 1995.
Invited Talk, ``Information Integration in Distributed Design Teams,'' Department of Chemical Engineerng, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway, November, 1995.
Invited talk, ``Information Integration in Distributed Design,'' with Art Westerberg, Society of Mechanical Engineering, Minneapolis, Mn. 1996
Invited Talk, "Information Managment and ENgineering", Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, January 1996.
Invited Talk, ``Geographically Distributed Design,'' Daimler Benz Workshop on Product Development, Ulm Germany, December, 1994.
Invited Talk, ``Collaboration Support in Engineering Design'' , ABB Computer Science Conference, Zurich, Switerland, 1994
Invited talk, ``Information Modeling in Design'', Departments of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands, September, 1992.
Invited talk, ``Next Generation Design System for Concurrent Engineering'', R&D Managers Meeting, Asea Brown Boveri Power Transformers, Ludvika, Sweden, September 1992.
Invited talk on ``Information Modeling in the Multi-object World of Engineering Design'', Xerox-Cornell Design Research Institute, Cornell University, November, 1991
Invited talk, ``Design Support Systems in Engineering Design'', Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, July, 1991.
Invited talk on ``Shared Computational Environment for Engineering Design'', Xerox-Cornell Design Research Institute, Cornell University, December 14, 1990.
Invited talks on "Collaboration and Co-ordination in Engineering Design Environments" and ``A Pragmatic Approach to Computer Supported Engineering Design'', Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, July, 24 & 25, 1990.
Invited talk on "Engineering Design Environments", Engineering Design Research Center (United Kingdom), Glasgow, Scotland, July 6, 1990.
Invited talk on "Environments for Engineering Design", Department of Chemical Engineering, Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Jan,90 and at the Westinghouse R & D Center, Pittsburgh, Feb.90.
Invited talk on "Design of an Intelligent Tutor for Electrical Circuits", IBM Yorktown Heights, October 1988. Also at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, July 1988.
Invited talk on "An Architecture for Welfare Eligibility Determination System", at Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, March 87.
Invited talk on "Dr. Thevenin: An intelligent tutor for Electrical Circuits", at the Educom conference preview seminar series at CMU, November 86. Also demonstrated the system to attendees of the conference.
Various other presentations were made at the Engineering Design Research Center on the tutoring system (Thevenin) and helicopter diagnostic system, 1986-87.
Co-organizer and participant, Workshop on Advanced Concurrent Engineering for ABB, ABBTransmission Technology Institute, Raliegh, June, 1993.
Organizing Committee, Workshop on Technology Transfer, Engineering Design Research Center, February, 1993.
Invited participant, NSF-Xerox Workshop on Information Capture and Access, Xerox-Cornell Design Research Institute, Cornell University, November, 1991
Invited participant, Artificial Intelligence in Government Workshop on Full Size Knowledge Bases, Washington D.C., April 1990.
Invited participant , IJCAI-89 Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition: Tools and Techniques,
Detroit, August 1989.
Invited participant in "Workshop on Knowledge-Based Systems in Design", AAAI-86. Philadelphia, 1986.
Book Review Editor, Research in Engineering Design.
Reviewed a proposal for NSF Division of Information and Organizations.
Reviewed articles for Journal of Information Systems, IEEE Expert, Research in Engineering Design, AIEDAM
Reviewed papers for Artificial intelligence in Government Workshop, 1990.
Reviewed papers for IEEE Expert (Applications in Government), 1988.
Reviewed papers for the Power Industry Conference on Computer Applications, 1987.
Reviewed papers for the Second International Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, 1987.
Reviewed proposals submitted to Fund for Improvement of Post Secondary Education, Department of Education, 1986.
Member, Association for Computing Machinery.
Member, IEEE Computer Society.
Listed in Directory of Distinguished Indian Computer Professionals, Indian Institute of Computer Professionals, Hyderabad, India.
Member of the panel on "Hardware and Software Requirements for Engineering Design and Education", 1986. A manual of hardware and software facilities at EDRC.
Member, Computer Committee, School of Urban and Public Affairs, 1982-83. Periodic recommendations on hardware and software purchases.