 Harrison
Kim
Assistant Professor
Dr. Harrison M. Kim earned his Ph.D. degree at the University of Michigan
in 2001. In 2002 he worked as a senior consultant for a leading Business-IT
consulting company in the area of Six Sigma and IT consulting. In
2003 he joined
Automotive Research Center at the University of Michigan as a research
fellow. In 2004 he expanded his research in product planning and
development at Northwestern University as a research associate. His
research interests
are in large-scale system decision making utilizing multidisciplinary
design optimization and systems engineering. In product design the
decision making process is decomposed into two stages: product planning
and product
development. Product planning involves financial aspects of decision
making in conjunction with reflecting customers' preferences toward
the product. Product development involves achieving the performance
targets from the product planning stage and making sure the consistency
and concurrency are achieved in the design process. He has proposed
analytical approaches to solve these types of problems: analytical
target setting and analytical target cascading.
Areas of Interest
Professor Kim's research interests are in large-scale system decision
making utilizing design optimization and System of Systems (SoS)
methodology. Particularly his research has been concerned with (1)
product development, (2) product planning, and (3) hierarchical
multidisciplinary optimization. In product design the decision making
process is decomposed into two stages: product planning and product
development. Product planning involves financial aspects of decision
making in conjunction with reflecting customers' preferences toward
the product. Product development involves achieving the performance
targets from the product planning stage and making sure the consistency
and concurrency are achieved in the design process. He has proposed
analytical approaches to solve these types of problems: analytical
target setting (ATS) and analytical target cascading (ATC). Application
domain includes automotive, aerospace, airline, and consumer electronics
industries.
Contact Information
Office: 315 Transportation Building
Mailing Address:
117 Transportation Building MC-238
104 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana IL 61801
Phone: (217) 265-9437
Fax: (217) 244-5705
e-mail: hmkim at uiuc.edu
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