Steven Eppinger

General Motors Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management
Professor of Management Science and Engineering Systems
Co-Director, System Design and Management Program

Biography | Selected Publications

A System Architecture Approach to Global Product Development [2007]

Improving Product Development Processes to Manage Development Risk [2006]

Factors that influence Technical Communication in Distributed Product Development: An Empirical Study in the Telecommunications Industry. [2002]

Information Hiding in Product Development: The Design Churn Effect [2002]

"Performance of Coupled Product Development Activities with a Deadline" [2001]

Understanding the Effects of Product Architecture on Technical Communication in Product Development Organizations. [2000]

A Model for Development Project Cost and Schedule Planning [1998]

Sourcing By Design: Product Architecture and the Supply Chain [1998]

A Predictive Model of Sequential Iteration in Engineering Design [1996]

Generalized Models of Design Iteration Using Signal Flow Graphs [1996]

The Coupling of Product Architecture and Organizational Structure Decisions [1996]

Deciding Between Sequential and Parallel Tasks in Engineering Design [1995]

Identifying Controlling Features of Engineering Design Iteration [1995]

Integration Analysis of Product Decompositions [1995]

Predicting Technical Communication in Product Development Organizations [1995]

Product Design and Development. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

A Model-Based Method for OrganizationTasks in Product Development [1993]

Managing the Integration Problem in Concurrent Engineering [1993]

Systematic versus Intuitive Problem Solving on the Shop Floor: Does it Matter [1993]

Overlapping Product Development Activities by Analyis of Information Transfer Practice [1992]

Testing and Engineering Design Iteration Model in an Experimental Setting [1992]

Development of Tools to Represent Design Procedures [1991]

Methods for Analysing Design Procedures [1991]

Modelling the Impact of Organizational Structure on Design Lead Time and Product Quality [1991]

Towards a Cooperative Design Methodology: Analysis of Sequential Decision Strategies [1991]

Interdisciplinary Product Design Education [1989]

Organizing the Tasks in Complex Design Projects [1989]

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Contact Information
Office: E62-468
Tel: (617) 253-0468
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Name: David V Merrill
Tel: (617) 253-3341
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Research Center(s)

General Expertise
Aircraft / Aviation; Automotive; Concurrent engineering; Global business processes; Product development and design; Project management