People
Group Photo
2010-11 (missing Dane and Clint)
Current Ph.D. Students
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Hao Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate (2012-present)
Hao is pursuing a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering. He is from Shangqui (Henan province), China and received his B.S. in IE (2009), and M.S. in IE (2012) from Oregon State. His current research focuses on investigating novel modeling approaches of sustainable manufacturing systems and decision support for enterprises. Other research interests include process sustainability optimization, social impact assessment of manufacturing systems, systems thinking, and engineering ethics.
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Babak Lajevardi, Ph.D. Student (2012-present)
Babak is pursuing a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering. He received his M.S. IE (2012) from Oregon State focusing on laser welding for microdevice manufacturing. His research is investigating cost modeling for microdevice manufacturing.
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Amin Mirkouei, Ph.D. Student (2013-present)
Amin Mirkouei is pursuing a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering. He is from Tehran, Iran and received his B.S. in IE (2009) and M.S. in IE (2011) from the University of Tehran. His current research focuses on optimal and sustainable feedstock supply chains for biomass processing. Other research interests include Supply Chain Management, Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, and Operations Management.
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Current M.S. Students
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Walter (Clint) Clow, M.S. Student (2011-present)
Clint is pursuing an M.S. in Industrial Engineering (exp. 2013). He is from Oregon City, oR. His research focuses on sustainability assessment of component manufacturing and assembly processes.
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Qi Gao, M.S. Student (2011-present)
Qi is pursuing an M.S. in Industrial Engineering (exp. 2013). She grew up in Wuhan (Hubei province), China and received her B.S. in Measurement and Control Technology and Instrumentation (2010) from Jiang Han University. Her research focuses on couple environmental and economic assessment of microdevice manufacturing.
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Seyedhamed Seyedmahmoudi, M.S. Student (2012-present)
Hamed is pursuing an M.S. in Industrial Engineering (exp. 2013). He grew up in Tehran, Iran and received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Tehran (2011). His research interests are in sustainable design and manufacturing.
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Pantea Mirzaie, M.S. Student (2012-present)
Pantea is pursuing an M.S. in Industrial Engineering (exp. 2013). She grew up in Tehran, Iran and received her B.S. in Insurance Management from the Allameh Tabatabaee University ECO College of Insurance (2009). Her research focuses on environmental and economic assessment of macro and micro renewable energy systems.
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Faraz Niyaghi, M.S. Student (2012-present)
Faraz is pursuing an M.S. in Industrial Engineering (exp. 2013). He grew up in Tehran, Iran and received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (2011). His research is focused on performance improvement of zinc oxide metal working nanofluids.
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Alex Cimino-Hurt, M.S. Student (2012-present)
Alex is pursuing an M.S. in Industrial Engineering (exp. 2014) He grew up in Sewanee, Tennessee and Mt. Pleasant, Utah and received his B.S. in Physics from James Madison University (2007). His research interests are in sustainable design and manufacturing.
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Michael Eastwood, M.S. Student (2012-present)
Michael is pursuing an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Industrial Engineering (exp. 2014). He is from Beaverton, OR, and received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State in 2012. His research focuses on sustainable design and manufacturing.
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Tasha Larson, M.S. Student (2012-present)
Tasha is pursuing an M.S. in Industrial Engineering (exp. 2014) as an Intel Graduate Fellow. She received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State in 2012.
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Graduate Researchers
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Natalie Traut, Diploma Student (Winter-Spring 2012)
Natalie received her Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (2012). Her diploma thesis research focused on
remanufacturing of wave energy generators, and was conducted within the Industrial Sustainability Laboratory.
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Gorka Rodrigo Asensio (Oct. 2010 - April 2011)
As a research intern, Gorka assisted in performing life cycle assessment of a hypothetical wind park using publicly available data from the Bonneville Power Administration. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
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Babak Lajevardi (Spring 2010)
Babak assisted in preliminary research of manufacturing systems optimization on the basis of economic and environmental factors. He grew up in Tehran, Iran and received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in Tehran (1999), an MBA from Royal Roads University in Canada (2007), and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering-Engineering Management from California State University (2009) and Oregon State (2012). He is now pursuing his Ph.D. at Oregon State.
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Undergraduate Researchers
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Jackson Santee, URSA:Engage Undergraduate Research Assistant (Spring 2013)
Jackson is pursuing a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. He is assisting in the development of a systems engineering method for sustainable manufacturing decision making.
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Chris Eastwood, URSA:Engage Undergraduate Research Assistant (Spring 2013)
Chris is pursuing a B.S. in Computer Engineering. He is contributing to the development of a user-friendly sustainable manufacturing assessment software tool.
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Ian Garretson, Undergraduate Research Assistant (Spring 2013)
Ian is pursuing a B.S. in Industrial Engineering (exp. 2013). He is working to perform cradle-to-gate assessment of an aircraft assembly.
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Daniela Rodriguez Casallas, Undergraduate Research Intern (Fall 2012)
Daniela is pursuing a B.S. in Industrial Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
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Tim Heneveld, URISC:Start Undergraduate Research Assistant (Winter 2012)
Tim is pursuing a B.S. in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. He is from Salem, OR, where he attended Chemeketa Community College prior to OSU. His interests include improving manufacturability through more sustainable processes.
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Claire Oshatz, Undergraduate Research Assistant (Summer 2011)
Claire assisted in research developing a cost modeling tool for microlaminated device manufacturing.
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Steven Hattrup, COE START Undergraduate Research Assistant (Summer 2011)
Steven assisted in research investigating the effects of product design variation on manufacturing process and supply chain sustainability.
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Nathan Klammer, Undergraduate Research Assistant (Summer 2011)
Nathan assisted in research focused on assessing the performance and toxicological aspects of nanofluids in metal cutting operations. He also assisted on a project investigating environmental impacts of wind energy.
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Misha Sahakian, Research Assistant (Summer 2009)
Misha assisted in preliminary research into the use of nanofluids to assist metal cutting, as well as assisting in establishing the new Manufacturing Engineering Educational Laboratory.
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High School Researchers
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Albert Cai, ASE High School Intern (Summer 2012)
Albert attends Corvallis High School. He completed a summer internship through the Saturday Academy Apprenticeships in Science and Engineering Internship program. During his internship, he conducted data collection for environmental analysis of product manufacturing.
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Alumni
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Preedanood (Mim) Prempreeda, M.S. (2011-2012)
Mim received an M.S. in Industrial Engineering (September 2012). She is from Bangkok, Thailand. Her research focused on assessing the environmental performance of supplemental energy technologies for a wind park application.
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Dane Eastlick, M.S. (2010-2012)
Dane received an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (March 2012). He is from Etna, California and received his B.S. in Materials Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (2007). His research focused on improving sustainability assessment methods for product designers.
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Ahmed Alsaffar, M.S. (KoCoS)
Ahmed completed an M.S. in Industrial Engineering (March 2012). He grew up in Bahrain and received his B.S. in Electrical and Wireless Engineering from Auburn University (2009). His research focused on reducing the coupled manufacturing process and supply chain-related energy use and carbon emissions during product design.
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Misha Sahakian, M.S. (Sandia National Labs)
Misha received his M.S. in Industrial Engineering in September 2011. He grew up near Salem, Oregon and received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State University (2009). His research focused on assessing the machining performance and ecotoxilogical aspects of nanofluids in metal cutting operations.
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Malcolm Brown, M.S. (Intel)
Malcolm is received his M.S. in Industrial Engineering in June 2011. His research investigated economic and environmental performance of microlaminated devices utilizing nickel nanoparticle diffusion brazing as compared with other processes. He grew up in Foster, Oregon and received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State University (2009).
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Mary Beth Vanlue, Honors B.S. (Boeing)
Mary Beth received her Honors Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State in December 2010. Her honors thesis developed a method for service-oriented organizations to measure and improve their sustainability. Her research was based on a survey of nonprofit organizations and a project with a local nonprofit.
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Graduate and Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Students interested in conducting research that addresses economic, social, and/or environmental sustainability
of manufactured products and manufacturing processes and systems are encouraged to contact Dr. Haapala.
See a description of example research topics
here.
