David Cochran

Professor of Systems Engineering
Director, IPFW Center of Excellence in Systems Engineering

• Room: ET 229 B
• Office Phone: 260-481-0341
• E-mail: cochrand@pfw.edu
• Web Page: https://sel.pfw.edu/

Education

• B.S., Industrial Engineering, Auburn University, 1986
• M.S., Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 1989
• Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Auburn University, 1994

Selected Recent Publications

• Cochran, D. S., Foley, J. T., and Bi, Z.  (2017).  "Use of the Manufacturing System Design Decomposition for Comparative Analysis and Effective Design of Production Systems,"International Journal of Production Research, Volume 55, Issue 3, pp. 870-890.  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207543.2016.1218088
• Cochran, D. S., Hendricks, S., Barnes, J. and Bi, Z.  (2016).  “Extension of Axiomatic Design Theory to Implement Manufacturing Systems that are Sustainable,” ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering: Special Issue on Sustainable Manufacturing, 138(10), pp. 1-10.  http://manufacturingscience.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleid=2540454