http://art-design.umich.edu/people/detail/jan-henrik_andersen

Background in architecture and industrial design with design experience from 50 some industrial projects in Europe and the Americas. Creative interest and research focused around sustainability with emphasis on developing understanding of cultural factors as criteria for form longevity in industrially manufactured objects.

“Sustainability is not merely a question of how much resources and energy we use on developing and using products, but just as well and perhaps more importantly, a question of how well designers understand human nature and cultural behavior in order to design for cultural duration as well as technological development.”

http://me-web.engin.umich.edu:8282/ME/People/pubdir/bio?uniqname=dibrei

http://www2.med.umich.edu/departments/mott/index.cfm?fuseaction=Peds.facultyBio&individual_id=14887

James E. Carpenter, MD, is an Associate Professor and Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Medical School. He has clinical and academic interests in sports medicine and shoulder surgery. He is one of the head team physicians for U of M Athletic Department. He is actively involved in the Orthopaedic Surgery Laboratories at the Biomedical Sciences Research Building. He has a background in mechanical engineering and has research interests in biomechanics, soft tissue repair and reconstruction, shoulder surgery and arthroscopic surgery.

My research involves the investigation of design approaches and ideation, innovation practices, and creative processes in engineering disciplines, outside of engineering, and across disciplines. I emphasize the translation of research to practice in my work, in the forms of pedagogy, curriculum development, and faculty support and programming. Thus I also design and explore the impacts of educational developments as well as processes of implementation of evidence-based best practices in teaching and learning. I am specifically interested in studies involving multiple disciplinary professional and educational contexts and I often collaborative across disciplines, working with scholars in engineering, education, industrial design, and psychology.

http://milproj.ummu.umich.edu/home/biography.html

President Duderstadt’s teaching and research interests have spanned a wide range of subjects in science, mathematics, and engineering, including nuclear fission reactors, thermonuclear fusion, high-powered lasers, computer simulation, information technology, and policy development in areas such as energy, education, and science. He has served on and chaired numerous National Academy and federal commissions including the National Science Board; the National Academies’ Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee; and the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, and Intelligence Science Board. He currently serves as director of the Millennium Project, a research center exploring the impact of over-the-horizon technologies on society; co-directs the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the University of Michigan; and chairs the Division of Policy and Global Affairs of the National Research Council of the National Academies.

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~gessl/

Technologies can enable new creative possibilities or enhance existing practices. His research explores how to build interactive systems which support live artistic performance including the design of novel controllers and the development of algorithms that are capable of generating rich media content in real-time. In recent years mobile commodity devices have emerged as a powerful platforms for interactive artistic expression and music performance. We explore the creative potential of these devices and design environments that makes flexible content creation, live programming and performance on these device both rich and easy.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~yingfan/

http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000400709

Fred Feinberg’s research focuses on using statistical models to understand human decision-making. He is particularly interested in the complex interactions between product attributes (what consumers value), physical design specifications (what engineers and designers work with), and eventual human choice, using methods like conjoint analysis. His research makes use of a variety of approaches from discrete choice methods, mathematical psychology, Bayesian econometrics, and dynamic programming. He is Senior Editor for Marketing at POM, Associate Editor at Marketing Science and Journal of Marketing Research, and co-author of Modern Marketing Research: Concepts, Methods, and Cases. He teaches “Marketing Engineering”, a new approach to using interactive models with large-scale data to solve real-world marketing optimization problems.

http://www.med.umich.edu/ummic

Dr. Geiger serves as a pediatric surgeon at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, directs the CS Mott Children’s Minimally Invasive Surgery Program and the Pediatric Comprehensive Weight Management Center. His surgical interests include inflammatory bowel disease, oncology, liver surgery, and portal hypertension. He co-founded and is the Executive Director of the Medical Innovation Center (MIC), He is developing and commercializing a number of medical devices. In addition to his appointments at the University of Michigan, Dr. Geiger serves as Chairman of the St. Vincent’s Mercy Children’s Hospital in Toledo, Ohio.

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~gilchrst/

He specializes in plasma electrodynamics principally for in-space applications with a focus on technological applications and sensors. His research activities span in-space plasma effects and measurements, ground-based vacuum chamber simulations of high-speed space plasma flows to investigate current collection and sheath physics, and the development of advanced space electric propulsion applications: space electrodynamic tethers, nanoparticle electrostatic thrusters. Through his experimental research, industry experience, and advising of student design teams including the Student Space Systems Fabrication Laboratory and Solar Car, he has developed a keen interest in systems design and exploring new paradigms in 21st Century education. He is Co-Director for the CoE Multidisciplinary Design Program and served as interim Chair for EECS.

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=gonzo

Rich Gonzalez is a social psychologist who studies how people make decisions and judgments. He has studied decision making in many domains including medical decision making, consumer choice behavior, decision making under risk, and the role of stress on decision making. He uses multiple methods, including observation, surveys, lab and field experiments, and brain imaging, and takes a multidisciplinary approach to his research. He uses both behavioral data and mathematical modeling to inform his work. His design science research activities to date have centered on integrating behavioral science paradigms, models and theories in the process of design.

http://www.music.umich.edu/faculty_staff/bio.php?u=mdgurev

Michael Gurevich designs, studies and composes for interactive music systems. Framed through the interdisciplinary lens of Interaction Design, his research explores new aesthetic and interactional possibilities that can emerge in performance with real-time computer systems. Using quantitative, qualitative, ethnographic and practice-based methods, he studies how phenomena such as skill and style appear in digital music performance. He teaches courses in media art, computer-based composition and physical computing.

www.mechanosynthesis.com and www.nanobliss.com

John Hart leads the Mechanosynthesis Group, whose research focuses on the synthesis, properties, and applications of nanostructured materials. John teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in design, manufacturing, nanotechnology, and research methods. As a member of the Design Science Program, John is interested in new ways to visualize and communicating scientific methods and results, and in emerging methods of information sharing and collaboration.

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/econ/people/faculty/ci.kelloggryan_ci.detail

Research bridges industrial organization, energy economics, and environmental policy. His projects range from analyses of the behavior of oil and gas firms to evaluations of U.S. pollution abatement programs and the welfare impacts of climate change.

http://ioe.engin.umich.edu/people/fac/yililiu.html

His teaching and research areas are in human factors, cognitive ergonomics, cognitive modeling, aesthetic ergonomics, and human-computer interaction. His research emphasizes the role of integrative computational models and carefully designed lab experiments in advancing the science and practice of human-centered design. His research group has been using a range of mathematical methods as modeling tools and exploring a variety of application domains including driver interfaces, education media, web page design, and consumer products. All of his Ph.D. graduates have obtained their desired employments in top-tier research institutions and leading industrial firms.

http://www.art-design.umich.edu/faculty.php?aud=u&menucat=pe&id=johnjm

John Marshall’s practice and research focuses on a discipline-agnostic approach to designing and making that recognizes the boundaries of the problem being addressed, not the artificial boundaries of traditionally-defined disciplinary practice. His current research seeks a better understanding of what makes cross-disciplinary collaborations successful. Marshall is concerned with paradigms of inquiry in which ontologies are relativist, epistemologies are subjectivist and methodologies are hermeneutic and dialectic. He creates hands-on learning experiences that pay attention to the relationship between objects and users beyond those aspects that are purely ergonomic or strictly functional in the conventional sense.

www.umich.edu/~mmmc/

Malcolm McCullough studies the relationship of architecture, embodied cognition, and interaction design, for applications in urban informatics. He has written two books on the topic: Ambient Commons (in press for 2012), Digital Ground (2004). In his earlier work, he was a pioneer of computer aided design (CAD), on which he wrote Abstracting Craft (1996), and Digital Design Media (with William Mitchell, 1991). Before Michigan, he served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon and Harvard Design School. Here in Taubman College, McCullough teaches studios in architectural design, and courses in networked cities and responsive surfaces.

http://nigelmelville.org

The central objective of my research is to answer important questions related to how organizations generate value with information systems (IS). I have developed a framework describing the value generation process and developed and tested several related propositions. I am interested in several aspects of design science, including the role of theory, and the context of IS solutions to environmental sustainability problems. I teach a project-based course on service innovation management, in which students apply design methods such as empathic research and rapid prototyping to develop e-services such as carbon footprinting apps.

http://www.somodhrain.com

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/soc/directories/show-person.asp?PeopleID=99

Jason Owen-Smith specializes in network, institutional, and organizational analysis as they pertain to collaboration, innovation, entrepreneurship and the development of high-technology industries. Jason’s current projects examine the socio-spatial dynamics of scientific discovery, the science and politics of stem cell research, and the network dynamics of five research intensive industry sectors (Biotechnology, Information Technology, Medical Devices, Hardware, and Analytic Services). Jason is Associate Professor of Sociology, Interim Director & Associate Professor of Organizational Studies, and Director of the Barger Leadership Institute. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Arizona and a B.A. in Sociology & Philosophy from the New College of Florida.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pyp/

His teaching and research areas are in human factors, cognitive ergonomics, cognitive modeling, aesthetic ergonomics, and human-computer interaction. His research emphasizes the role of integrative computational models and carefully designed lab experiments in advancing the science and practice of human-centered design. His research group has been using a range of mathematical methods as modeling tools and exploring a variety of application domains including driver interfaces, education media, web page design, and consumer products. All of his Ph.D. graduates have obtained their desired employments in top-tier research institutions and leading industrial firms.

http://mreed.umtri.umich.edu/

Research areas include engineering anthropometry, human motion simulation, ergonomics, crash safety, vehicle interior design, seat and chair design—with focus on the development of quantitative models to represent humans in engineering design. He works on developing three-dimensional models of human external body shape and internal skeletal and organ geometry for crash safety and ergonomics applications; gathering and analyzing human posture and motion data to develop predictive models of human behavior in vehicles and industrial workspaces. The outcomes are design tools to save lives, reduce injury, optimize product performance, and reduce development time and cost.

http://ioe.engin.umich.edu/people/fac/sarter.php

Her research interests include (1) the design and evaluation of tactile and multimodal interfaces in support of human-computer interaction and computer-supported collaborative work, (2) support for attention and interruption management through adaptive notifications and preattentive reference, (3) the design of decision support systems, and (4) human error and disturbance management. Application domains for her work include aviation and space operations, medicine, and military operations. She is teaching classes at both the graduate and undergraduate level on Cognitive Ergonomics and System Safety.

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=seifert

As a cognitive scientist, she is interested in how people think, especially in rich, complex environments. Her research focuses on memory and problem solving, and how memory for past experiences impacts current reasoning. Recently, she has been working with several others in the Design Science program on researching the creative process: Examine how design can be improved by introducing variation, and are testing instructional methods to improve creativity, and begun exploring creative pedagogy in courses across the university setting. The benefits of cross-disciplinary teams are very evident in these projects and in her courses on the creative process.

https://me-web2.engin.umich.edu/pub/directory/bio?uniqname=sienko

User-centered design, design for resource-limited settings, medical device design, wearable balance prostheses and rehabilitation aids, vibrotactile sensory substitution

http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Eskerlos/

Professor Skerlos is a researcher in the design of sustainable technology systems. His major fields of design activity include automotive policy, water technology/policy, and manufacturing technology. He has co-founded two successful start-up companies based on sustainable design concepts in the areas of bio-detection and gas-based lubricants. He has served as Associate and Guest Editor for four different journals in design, manufacturing, and environmental science. Professor Skerlos teaches courses in Sustainable Engineering (undergraduate) and Sustainable Design of Technology Systems (graduate). He directs the Environmental and Sustainable Technologies Laboratory.

Prof. Stein is interested in developing algorithms for reducing proper dynamic system models to design and control resilient and sustainable systems. Model parameter and estimation as well as Optimal Design of Experiments. Applications across many domains some in which include; hybrid and electric vehicles, vehicle to grid integration, design for health conscious battery performance, internet-distributed hardware in-the-loop simulation.

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/gregory.h.wakefield

His research interests include music signal processing, computational audition, advanced psychometric methods, audio for virtual reality and signal processing for singer voice training. Dr. Wakefield emphasizes that how we hear determines what we hear. Therefore, any systematic understanding of interactive systems involving audio must begin with the human listener and what they perceive. His research integrates what we know about hearing with what we know about sound producing objects to create and develop a variety of interactive systems. Recent efforts have contributed to our understanding of immersive spatial audio, vocal pedagogy, and sound quality engineering. His research also explores fundamental aspects of auditory perception, ranging from elementary pitch perception to the perception of more complex, stochastically organized sounds, and in the integration of what we learn from these studies into models of cognitive architecture.

http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000380380

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=oybarra

My research focuses on the interplay of decision-making / problem solving and social-relational processes. Some of my research has examined how people’s relationships influence: basic cognitive resources useful for decision-making; the appeal of options in decision-making; and emotion regulation and consequent judgments of opportunities and risk. I use various research methods, including survey methods, field observations and experiments, and lab experiments. My work involves basic research, theoretical work, and applied approaches, the latter being most evident in my start-up, which is developing and commercializing technologies to offer a life-systems approach to brain fitness and helping people maintain a sharp mind.

http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000400710

Her primary research interests are focused on advancing theoretical and practical understanding of memory, judgment, and behavior, particularly as people age, in consumer and socio-cultural environments. Current research projects include investigations of the aging consumer, design factors with respect to consumer behavior, and how the interplay of genes, neural mechanisms and culture influence mental processes and decision making. She teaches Consumer Behavior in the BBA, MBA and PhD programs at the Ross School of Business.

http://www.engin.umich.edu/admin/adep

If it's not exploration or innovation, I am usually not too interested in getting involved... But, if I can be part of a team that takes it to the next level, that will not back off in the face of challenges, that's when I get really, really excited.

My research is very much focused on research of the Sun or space. My group designs space instruments and studies space systems on which such instruments work. We are also very interested in injecting new ideas into novel sensors and in developing technologies to better analyze space data. We continually explore how to make a broader societal impact with our inventions.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~msimoni/Mary_Simoni/Welcome.html

Research interests include digital sound synthesis and signal processing, algorithmic composition, music performance interfaces, and pedagogical models for music technology. Has taught courses in her research areas as well as in the business of music and the history of electro-acoustic music. Strives to connect her research with her teaching as a way to explore together new domains of knowledge together with students.