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Contact Information: 3057 ERF Phone: (312) 996-4354 Fax: (312) 413-0447 E-Mail: mjscott@uic.edu

Michael J. Scott
Associate Professor

A.B., Philosophy (1986)
Harvard

M.S., Mechanical Engineering (1994)
California Institute of Technology

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (1999)
California Institute of Technology

• ARCS Foundation Fellow 1997

Selected Publications

Clive L. Dym, William H. Wood, and Michael J. Scott. Rank Ordering Engineering Designs: Pairwise Comparison Charts and Borda Counts.
Research in Engineering Design, to appear (accepted July 2002).

Fehmi Cirak, Michael J. Scott, Erik K. Antonsson, Michael Ortiz, and Peter Schroder. Integrated Modeling, Finite-Element Analysis, and Engineering Design for Thin-Shell Structures using Subdivision. Computer-Aided Design, 34 (2):137- 148. Elsevier, 2001.

Michael J. Scott and Erik K. Antonsson. Arrow s Theorem and Engineering Design Decision Making. Research in Engineering Design, 11(4):218-228. Springer, 1999.

M. J. Scott and E. K. Antonsson, "Aggregation Functions for Engineering Design Trade-offs," Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 99(3): 253-264.

Refereed Conference Papers

Michael J. Scott. Quantifying Certainty in Design Decisions: Examining AHP. accepted for publication in 14th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology, Montreal, Canada, September 2002.

Barbara Di Eugenio, Michael Glass, and Michael J. Scott. The binomial cumulative distribution, or, is my system better than yours? Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, May 2002

M. J. Scott and E. K. Antonsson, "Preliminary Vehicle Structure Design: An Industrial Application of Imprecision in Engineering Design," ASME 1998 Design Theory and Methodology Conference (DTM '98).

M. J. Scott, R. W. Kaiser, M. Dilligan R. J. Glaser and E. K. Antonsson, "Managing Uncertainty in Preliminary Aeroshell Design Analysis," ASME 1997 Design Theory and Methodology Conference (DTM '97).

M. J. Scott and E. K. Antonsson, "Formalisms for Negotiation in Engineering Design," ASME 1996 Design Theory and Methodology Conference (DTM '96).

M. J. Scott and E. K. Antonsson, "Aggregation Functions for Engineering Design Trade-offs," ASME 1995 Design Theory and Methodology Conference (DTM '95).

Research Interests

Dr. Scott's research interests are in formal, computable models for engineering design, exploring the shifting boundary between the portion of design that can be formally computed and the part of design that must be handled informally. Specific areas include: formal decision models to support negotiation among different groups in a design process (e.g., structural and thermal engineers, engineers and stylists); set- and preference-based design methods; multi-resolution modeling; and mechanical design compilation. Applications include design for manufacturing, concurrent engineering, process automation, robust design, and integrated product development.

Laboratory

Engineering Design and Decision Laboratory
2039 ERF, (312) 355-8515