PHD DISSERTAIONS SUPERVISED

1.     “Vibration Operated Valves for Viscous Abrasive Fluids”, Khashayar Behdinan, May 2009 – Currently senior engineer at Siemens.

2.     “Contour Crafting Process Planning and Optimization,” Jing Zhang, May 2009 – currently senior analyst in technology assessment in China.

3.     “Trowel Path Generation for Contour Crafting,” Zhenghao Yeh, December 2005 – Currently consultant.

4.     “Experimental Study of Full-Scale Wall Construction using Contour Crafting”, Dooil Hwang, December 2004 – Currently Research Associate at Information Sciences Institute, Marina Del Rey, California.

5.      “An Experimental Study of Factors Affecting the Selective Inhibition of Sintering Process,” Bahram Asiabanpour, August 2003 – Currently Assistant Professor at Texas State University.

6.     “Experimentation and Analysis of Contour Crafting (CC) Process using ceramic Materials”, Hongkyu Kwon, May 2002 – Currently Senior Engineer at LG, Korea.

7.     "Study of Contour Crafting for Thermoplastic Materials", Richard Russell, PhD, May 1999 – Currently partner of Genesis and Vice President at Crossman Manufacturing.

8.     "Integration of Process Planning and Scheduling – A Mathematical Programming Approach", Wei Tan, PhD, May 1998 – Currently CEO of Paraster, Inc.

9.     "Applications of Machine Learning in Simulation,", Sima Parisay, PhD, May 1996 - Currently Professor, California State University, Pomona.

10. "Software Development Cost and Schedule Analysis using System Dynamics," Ray Madachy, Ph.D, 1995 - Currently Senior Engineering Specialist at Litton Data Systems and Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science at USC.

11. "Assembly Planning for Electronics Manufacturing," Ali Azmandian, PhD, 1995 - Currently Associate Professor at University of Tehran.

12. "Knowledge Based Process Planning using Feature Recognition and Cost Based Process Selection," Dusan Sormaz, Ph.D., 1994 - Currently Associate Professor at Ohio University.

13. "Modeling and Simulation of Integrated Information Processing and Operations' Decision to Enhance the Reliability of Nuclear Power Plants," Ali Azadeh, (Co-Chaired with Dr. N. Meshkati), Ph.D., 1993 - Currently Associate Professor at University of Tehran.

14. "A Cost Based Probablistic Due Date Assignment for Scheme for Job Shops," Ahmet Celal Kaplan, (Co-Chaired with Dr.Ali Kiran) 1992 – Currently Senior Analyst at Kiran & Associates

15. "Integration of Process Planning and Scheduling Functions," Qing-Mei Chen, Ph.D., May 1991 - Currently Software Engineer at Belcore.

16. "Real-Time Cost Based Automated Process Planning," Joo Park, Ph.D., May 1990 - Currently Senior Research Engineer at Southwest Research Institute, Texas.

17. "Natural Language Representation of Continuous Systems in Simulation Modeling," Wanda Austin, Ph.D., May 1988 - Currently Vice President at The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles. The thesis won the Society for Computer Simulation Award.

18. "Automation of Simulation Model Building Process Using AI Techniques," An-Pin Chen, Ph.D., December 1988 - Currently Professor at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

19. "An Expert Generative Manufacturing Process Planner," Hamid Berenji, Ph.D. May 1986 - Currently Research Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center.

20. "Integrating Aggregate Planning and Machine Requirements Planning Problems," Ali Behnezhad, Ph.D. May 1985 - Currently Professor at California State University at Northridge.

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