DEBORAH L. THURSTON

Curriculum Vita, May 2006

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Room 117 Transportation Building 104 South Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801

Phone: (217) 333-2730 FAX: (217) 244-5705 E-mail: thurston@uiuc.edu

EDUCATION

REGISTRATION
Professional Civil Engineer, Minnesota License No. 015545 0

PROFESSIONAL POSITION

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
ASME, IEEE, IIE, Chi Epsilon, Sigma Xi

EXPERIENCE

AWARDS

EDITORSHIPS

SELECTED INVITED TALKS

• “Material Selection for Automotive Systems,” Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, December 1988.
• “Why a Society for Women Engineers?,” Keynote Speaker at Society of Women Engineers’ Little Sister Banquet, August 28, 1988.
• “ Integrating Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence Techniques,” General Motors Research, May 1990.
• “ Systems Analysis in the Design Process,” General Motors Systems Engineering, February 1992.
• “ Pollution Prevention through Manufacturing Process Control,” Armstrong World Industries, December 1994.
• “ Quantitative Tradeoff Analysis,” Ford Motor Company, June, 1995.
• “ Product Development Planning and Manufacturing Site Location,” Ford Motor Company, August 1996.
• “ Statistical Process Control for Multiobjective Design Optimization,” Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, March 1997.
• “ Decision Theory 101,” National Science Foundation Workshop on Decision Based Design, September 1998.
• “ Industrially Sponsored Senior Design at the University of Illinois,” ASME Design Theory and Methodology Conference, September 1998.
• “ Limitations of Decision Based Design,” National Science Foundation Workshop on Decision Based Design, January 2000.
• “ Decision Based Environmentally Conscious Design,” Penn State University, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, March 2000.
• “ How to Obtain a DNC (Do Not Consider) Rating on Your NSF Grant Proposal,” National Science Foundation Design, Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Grantees Conference, Tampa, FL, January 2001.
• “ Trends in Decision Based Design Theory,” National Science Foundation Workshop on Decision Based Design, ASME Design Theory and Methodology Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2001.
• “ Multiattribute Utility Analysis in Engineering Design,” Decisions and Engineering, National Science Foundation Workshop, October 2001, Irvine, CA.
• “ Material Consumption,” Plenary Speaker, Workshop on Sustainability and Industry: Energy, Material Consumption, and Human Behavior, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, E.I. DuPont and the Council for Chemical Research, Cincinnati, OH, March 2002.
• “ Snapshot of the Climate for Women in the College of Engineering, Chancellor’s Conference on American Institutions in a Demographically Changing World,” April 2002, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• “ DBD: Perspectives from the International Design Community,” National Science Foundation Workshop on Decision Based Design, ASME Design Conference, Chicago, IL, September 2003.
• “Constrained Optimization with Multiattribute Utility Analysis”, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, October 2003.
• " Green Design Decision Making", Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, December, 2003.
• “ Symposium on Gender in the Pre-College Science, Mathematics, and Technology Classroom”, University of Illinois, April 2004.
• " The Joy of Engineering", Freshman Orientation at Allerton Park, Women in Engineering Program, University of Illinois, August 2004.
• " A Strategic Vision for the Civil Engineering", Department of Civil Engineering, Iowa State University, April 2005.
• " Strategies for Industrial Engineering Excellence", Department of Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University, April 2005.
• " Enterprise Systems Engineering", Understanding Complex Systems Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2006.
• " Remanufacturing Matrices for Product Portfolio Market Diffusion", Materials Science and Technology Conference, Cincinnati, OH, October 2006.
  

TEACHING

• TMGT 461/BA 461 Integrated Project - faculty advisor for industrially sponsored student project teams for the Hoeft Technology and Management Program. Projects vary widely, but all address strategic issues related to technology management. Student teams include both business and engineering students. Sponsors include Motorola, Boeing, Eaton, Kimberly- Clark, State Farm and John Deere.
• GE 494 Senior Capstone Design –faculty advisor for industrially sponsored senior design teams. This is a Department-wide effort, with each faculty member advising one team of three students, and serving as evaluator for several others. Projects cover a broad spectrum of engineering disciplines, including manufacturing plant wastewater and air pollution control systems, product development, dynamics and control, inventory control, etc.
• GE 530 Multiattribute Utility Analysis for Decision-Making - graduate level course in normative decision theory for engineering design. Emphasis is on multiattribute utility theory, decision problem formulation, current research via technical journal readings and class projects.
• IE 310/GE 330 Operations Research Methods – undergraduate introduction to deterministic operations research and engineering economy, covering time value of money and linear, integer, dynamic and non-linear programming.
• IE 300/GE 331 Analytical Methods for Uncertainty – undergraduate introduction to statistical analysis, covering discrete and continuous random variables, sampling, estimation, tests of hypotheses and linear regression.

BOOKS

Bernard, Y.F. and D.L. Thurston. Civil Engineering PE Exam Depth Guide, Environmental Engineering, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• Marks, D. H. and D. L. Thurston, “Evolution of Technology Strategies in Environmental Policy Formulation,” invited chapter in Environmental Technology: Assessment and Policy, Ellis Horwood Ltd., 1989.
• Thurston, D. L. and J. V. Carnahan, “Intelligent Evaluation of Design for Manufacturing Cost,” in Concurrent Engineering Automation, Tools, and Techniques, Andrew Kusiak, ed., John Wiley, 1993.
• Thurston, D. L. and A. Locascio, “Multiattribute Design Optimization and Concurrent Engineering,” in Concurrent Engineering: Contemporary Issues and Modern Design Tools, Hamid Parsaei and William Sullivan, eds., Chapman and Hall, 1993.
• Thurston, D. L., “Group Decision Making in Design,” invited chapter in Mechanical Design: Theory and Methodology, Manjula B. Waldron and Kenneth J. Waldron, eds., Springer-Verlag, 1996.
• Nicolaou, P., D. Mangun and D.L. Thurston, “Modeling and Control for Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing,” invited chapter in Mechanical Life Cycle Handbook: Good Environmental Design and Manufacturing, M. Hundal, ed., Mercel Dekker, 2002.
• Thurston, D., "Utility Function Fundamentals," Invited chapter in Decision Making in Engineering Design (ASME Press) (2005).
• Thurston, D., "Aggregation of Preferences," Invited chapter in Decision Making in Engineering Design (ASME Press) (2005).

PEER REVIEWED TECHNICAL JOURNALS

• Thurston, D. L., "A Materials Selection Tool for Automotive Structural and Body Skin Systems," SAE Materials Transactions, 1988, #881303, also in Society of Automotive Engineers No. SP-755, 1988.
• Thurston, D. L., "Multiattribute Utility Analysis in Design Management," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 37, No. 4, November, 1990.
• Thurston, D. L., "A Formal Method for Subjective Design Evaluation with Multiple Attributes," Research in Engineering Design, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1991.
• Thurston, D. L. and T. Liu, "Design Evaluation of Multiple Attribute Under Uncertainty," Systems Automation: Research and Applications, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1991.
• Thurston, D. L. and J.V. Carnahan, "Fuzzy Ratings and Utility Analysis in Preliminary Design Evaluation of Multiple Attributes," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 114, No. 4, December 1992.
• Locascio, A. and D. Thurston, "Concurrent Optimal Design with Application to Structural Dynamics,” Journal of Engineering Design, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 1993.
• Safoutin, M. and D.L. Thurston, "A Cognitive Design Model and FMEA Technique for Analysis of Design Teams," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 40, No. 4, 1993.
• Thurston, D. L., "Concurrent Engineering in an Expert System," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 40, No. 2, May 1993.
• Thurston, D.L. and S. Essington, "A Tool for Optimal Design Decision-Making for Manufacturing," Manufacturing Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1993.
• Thurston, D.L. and R. Sun, "Structural Optimization of Multiple Attributes," Structural Optimization, Vol. 5, No. 4, 1993.
• Thurston, D. L. and Y.Q. Tian, "Integration of the Analytic Hierarchy Process with Integer Linear Programming for Long Range Product Planning,” Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Vol. 17, No. 4/5, 1993.
• Carnahan, J.V., D.L. Thurston and T. Liu, "Fuzzy Ratings for Multiattribute Design Decision-Making,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 116, No. 2, June, 1994.
• Thurston, D.L., "Environmental Design Trade-offs,” invited paper in Special Issue of Journal of Engineering Design, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1994.
• Thurston, D. L., J.V. Carnahan and T. Liu, "Optimization of Design Utility," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 116, No. 3, 1994.
• Thurston, D. L. and C.A. Crawford, "A Method for Integrating End-User Preferences for Design Evaluation in Rule Based Systems," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 116, No. 2, 1994.
• Thurston, D.L., S. Lloyd and J. Wallace, "Considering Customer Preferences for Environmental Protection in Material Selection," Materials and Design, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1994.
• Thurston, D.L. and A. Locascio, "Decision Theory for Design Economics," invited paper in Special Issue of The Engineering Economist, Vol. 40, No. 1, 1994.
• Thurston, D.L. and R. Sun, "Machine Learning for Structural Optimization," Microcomputers in Civil Engineering, Vol. 9, 1994.
• Tian, Y.Q., D.L. Thurston and J.V. Carnahan, "Incorporating End-Users' Attitudes Towards Uncertainty into an Expert System," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 116, No. 2, June, 1994.
• Van Dam, T.J. and D.L. Thurston, "Selection of the Preferred Pavement Design Alternative Using Multiattribute Utility Analysis," Transportation Research Board Records, 1994.
• Carnahan, J.V. and D. L. Thurston, “Tradeoff Modeling for Product and Manufacturing Process Design for the Environment,” Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1998.
• Locascio, A. and D.L. Thurston, “Transforming the House of Quality to a Multiobjective Optimization Formulation,” Structural Optimization, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1998.
• Thurston, D.L., “Engineering Economic Decision Issues in Environmentally Conscious Design,” invited paper in special issue of The Engineering Economist, Vol. 44, No. 1, 1999.
• Thurston, D.L., J.V. Carnahan and J. Kaufmann, “Pollution Prevention at Armstrong World Industries,” Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1999.
• Thurston, D.L., J. Alvarado, D. Mangun and W. Hoffman, “Cost, Quality and Environmental Tradeoffs for Printed Circuit Board Assembly,” The Engineering Economist, special issue, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2000.
• Thurston, D.L. and A. Nogal, “Meta-level Strategies for Evaluation Function Reformulation During Iterative Design,” Journal of Engineering Design, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2001.
• Thurston, D.L., “Real and Misconceived Limitations to Decision Based Design with Utility Analysis,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 123, No. 2, 2001.
• Nicolaou, P., D. Thurston and J. Carnahan. Machining Quality and Cost: Estimation and Tradeoffs. ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 124, No. 4, November, 2002.
• Mangun, D. and D. L. Thurston, “Incorporating Component Reuse, Remanufacture, and Recycle into Product Portfolio Design,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2002.
• Allen, D., D. Bauer, B. Bras, T. Gutowski, C. Murphy, T. Piwonka, P. Sheng, J. Sutherland, D. Thurston and E. Wolff, “Environmentally Benign Manufacturing: Trends in Europe, Japan and the USA,” ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 124, No. 4, November 2002.
• Thurston, D. and S. Srinivasan, “Constrained Optimization for Green Engineering Decision Making,” invited paper in special issue of Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 37, No. 23, pp 5389 – 5397, 2003.
• Sutherland, J., K. Gunter, D. Allen, D. Bauer, B. Bras, T. Gutowski, C. Murphy, T. Piwonka, P. Sheng, D. Thurston, E. Wolff, “A Global Perspective on the Environmental Challenges Facing the Automotive Industry: State-of-the-Art and Directions for the Future,” International Journal of Vehicle Design, Vol. 35, Nos. 1/2, 2004, pp. 86-110.
• Gutowski, T. C. Murphy, D. Allen, D. Bauer, B. Bras, T. Piwonka, P. Sheng, J. Sutherland, D. Thurston, E. Wolff, “Environmentally Benign Manufacturing; Observations from Japan, Europe and the United States,” Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2005, pp. 1-17.
• Ghisellini, A. and D. Thurston, “Decision Traps in ISO 14001 Implementation Process: Case Study Results from Illinois Certified Companies”, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 13, No. 8, June 2005, pp. 763-777.
• Krill, M. and D. Thurston, “Remanufacturing: Impacts of Sacrificial Cylinder Liners”, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol 127, No. 3, August 2005, pp.687-697.
• Kaldate, A., D. Thurston, H. Emamipour and M. Rood, “Engineering Parameter Selection for Design Optimization During Preliminary Design” Journal of Engineering Design, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2006.
• Thurston, D. and J. de la Torre, “Leasing and Extended Producer Responsibility for Personal Computer Component Reuse”, to appear as an invited paper in a special issue in International Journal of Environment and Pollution.
• Luo L. , D. Ramirez, M. Rood, G. Grevillot, K. James Hay, and D. L. Thurston, "Adsorption and Electrothermal Desorption of Organic Vapors using Activated Carbon Adsorbents with Novel Morphologies," to appear, Carbon.
• Harper, S., D. Thurston and P. Krein, "The Effects of Dynamic Residential Load Participation: Penetration Levels for Operational Impact on Reliability," To appear in special issue of the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures.

PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• Thurston, D. L., “Applications in the Automotive Industry,” Seminario de Sistemas de Materials (Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, April 1987).
• Thurston, D. L., J. Kildow, and J. Busch, “The Development and Application of a Model to Evaluate Industrial Wastewater Pretreatment and Sludge Disposal Criteria Alternatives,” Proc. of the American Society of Civil Engineers Specialty Conference, Computer Applications in Water Resources (Buffalo, NY, June 1985).
• Thurston, D. L., “Subjective Design Evaluation with Multiple Attributes,” ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methodology-DTM'90 (Chicago, IL, September 1990).
• Thurston, D. L., “Design Evaluation and Optimization of Multiple Attributes,” Proc. of 1991 International Conference on Engineering Design - ICED 91 (Zurich, Switzerland, August 1991).
• Thurston, D. L., J. V. Carnahan, and T. Liu, “Optimization of Design Utility,” ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methodology - DTM'91 (Miami, FL, September 1991).
• Thurston, D. L., Y. Q. Tian, “A Method for Integrating Utility Analysis into an Expert System for Design Evaluation under Uncertainty,” Proc. of Seventh Conference on Uncertainty in AI - 1991 (UCLA, Los Angeles, July 1991).
• Carnahan, J. V., D. L. Thurston, and R. L. Ruhl, “Experiences with an Industrially Sponsored Undergraduate Project Course,” Proc. 1992 Frontiers in Education Conference (Nashville, TN, November 1992).
• Locascio, A. and D. L. Thurston, “Multiattribute Optimal Design of Structural Dynamic Systems,” Proc. ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methodology - DTM'92 (Scottsdale, AZ, September, 1992).
• Thurston, D. L., “Incorporating Engineering Economic Considerations into the Design Process,” Proc. IIE Symposium on Research Directions in Engineering Economics (Chicago, IL, May 1992).
• Thurston, D. L. and R. Sun, “ Machine Learning of User Preferences for Structural Optimization,” Proc. Second Canadian Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (Ottawa, Ontario, August 1992).
• Tian, Y.Q., D. L. Thurston, “Incorporating End-users' Attitudes Towards Uncertainty into an Expert System,” ASME International Computers in Engineering Conference (San Francisco, CA, August 1992).
• Locascio, A. and D. Thurston, “Educating For Concurrent Engineering,” Proc. ASEE Conference on Engineering Education (1993).
• Locascio, A., and D. L. Thurston, “Multiattribute Design Optimization with Quality Function Deployment,” Proc. 2nd Industrial Engineering Research Conference (Los Angeles, CA, May 1993).
• Thurston, D. L. and A. Blair, “A Method for Integrating Environmental Impacts into Product Design,” International Conference on Engineering Design -ICED '93 (The Hague, Netherlands, August 1993).
• Thurston, D. L., “Internalizing Environmental Impacts in Design,” Proc. ASME Design for Manufacturability Conference (Chicago, IL, March 1994).
• Thurston, D. L. and W. Fallin, “Decision Decomposition of the Lifecycle of the Design Process,” Proc. ASME Conference on Design Automation (Minneapolis, MN, September 1994).
• Thurston, D. L. and A. Locascio, “Quantifying the House of Quality for Optimal Product Design,” Proc. ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (Minneapolis, MN, September 1994).
• Thurston, D. L., A. Nogal, and Y. Q. Tian, “Meta-level Reasoning in the Iterative Design Process,” Proc. ASME Winter Annual Meeting on Design Automation (Chicago, IL, 1994).
• Tian Y.Q. and D.L. Thurston, “Capturing Bounded Uncertainty with Fuzzy Numbers in the Decision Making Process,” 1st Conference on Management Science (Bejing, China, 1994).
• Carnahan, J. V. and D.L. Thurston, “Multiobjective Decision Making and Statistical Process Control for Collaborative Negotiation,” Proc. CIRP: Multimedia Technologies for Collaborative Design and Manufacturing (Los Angeles, CA, 1997).
• Thurston, D. L. and J. L. Alvarado, “Structuring Design Optimization for Multiple Stakeholders over Product Life,” Proc. International Conference on Engineering Design (Tampere, Finland, 1997).
• Thurston, D. L. and J. V. Carnahan, “Statistical Process Control for Pollution Prevention,” Proc. International Conference on Engineering Design (Tampere, Finland, 1997).
• Alvarado, J. and D.L. Thurston, “Microelectronics Design for Pollution Prevention: a Decision Tradeoff Tool,” Proc. 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment (Chicago, IL, May 1998).
• Alvarado, J. L., D.L. Thurston, and A. Locascio, “A Decision Tool for Microelectronics Manufacturing and Design Tradeoffs,” Proc. 1998 Industrial Engineering Research Conference (Alberta, Canada, May 1998).
• Mikulina, J. and D.L. Thurston, “Tough Choices: Integration of Environmental Protection into Design Optimization,” Proc. 1998 Industrial Engineering Research Conference (Alberta, Canada, May 1998).
• Mikulina, J., Z. Yu, and D. L. Thurston, “Energy Efficiency Uncertainty in Environmentally Conscious Design,” Proc. 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment (Chicago, IL, May 1998).
• Chen, R. and D. L. Thurston, “Reconciling Cost, Quality and Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing,” Proc. 1999 Industrial Engineering Research Conference (Phoenix, AZ, May 1999).
• Thurston, D.L., “Real and Perceived Limitations to Decision Based Design,” Proc. ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (Las Vegas, NV, September 1999).
• Thurston, D. L. and W. Hoffman, “Integrating Customer Preferences into Green Design and Manufacturing,” Proc. 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment (Danvers, MA, May 1999).
• Urlichs, R., T. Schreiner, R. Chen, and D. Thurston, “Design for Machining Quality, Cost and the Environment,” Proc. International Conference on Engineering Design (Munich, Germany, August 1999).
• Mangun, D. and D.L. Thurston, “Product Portfolios for Environmental Protection,” Proc. 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment (San Francisco, CA, May 2000).
• Nicolaou, P. and D. Thurston, “Machining: Quality, Cost and Environmental Estimation and Tradeoffs,” Proc. 2000 ASME Conference on Design for Manufacturing (Baltimore, MD, September 2000).
• Thurston, D., T. Gutowski, C. Murphy, D. Allen, D. Bauer, B. Bras, T. Piwonka, P. Sheng, J. Sutherland, E. Wolff, “U.S. National Science Foundation Panel Report on International Environmentally Benign Design and Manufacturing”, Proc. International Conference on Engineering Design (Glasgow, Scotland, August 2001).
• Mangun, D. and D. Thurston, “Decision Making for Component Remanufacturing within Product Families”, Proc. International Conference on Engineering Design (Glasgow, Scotland, August 2001).
• Allen, D., D. Bauer, B. Bras, T. Gutowski, C. Murphy, T. Piwonka, P. Sheng, J. Sutherland, D. Thurston and E. Wolff, “Environmentally Benign Manufacturing: Trends in Europe, Japan and the USA, Proc. 2001 ASME Conference on Design for Manufacturing (Pittsburgh, PA, September, 2001.
• Kaldate, A., D. Thurston, M. Rood and H. Emamipour. Development of Cost-Effective Adsorption-Electrothermal Desorption System Using Activated Carbon Fiber Cloths. Proc. Air and Waste Management Association Conference, San Diego, CA, June 2003.
• Emamipour, H., M. Rood , A. Kaldate, and D. Thurston. Adsorption Dynamics of Organic Vapors in Activated Carbon Fiber Cloth. Proc. Air and Waste Management Association Conference (San Diego, CA, June 2003).
• Kaldate, A., H. Emamipour, M. Rood and D. Thurston. Design for Environment: A Case Study of novel technology to Capture, Recover and Re-use Hazardous Air Pollutants. Proc. 2nd International Conference on Industrial Ecology (Ann Arbor, MI, July 2003).
• Kaldate, A., D. Thurston, H. Emamipour and M. Rood. Overcoming Decision Traps in Sustainable Design. Proc. 14th International Conference on Engineering Design (Stockholm, Sweden, August 2003).
• Krill, M. and D. Thurston. Remanufacturing: Effects of Sacrificial Cylinder Liners. Proc. ASME Conference on Design for Manufacturing (Chicago, IL, September 2003).
• Kaldate, A., D. Thurston, M. Rood and H. Emamipour. Decision Matrix Reduction for Environmentally Benign Design. Proc. ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (Chicago, IL, September 2003).
• Harper, S.R. and D. Thurston, "A Systems Approach to Stranded Assets Impacts of Electrical Power Supply," Proc. Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) Conference, Portland, OR, July 2005).
• Harper, S.R. and D. Thurston, "Stranded Environmental Impacts and electrical Power System Redesign," Proc. ASME Conference on Design for Manufacturing and Life Cycle (Long Beach, CA, September 2005).
• Ramirez, D, Vidal, E. X., Emamipour, H., Rood, M. J., Hay, K.H., Thurston, D. "Scale-up and Evaluation of a Pilot-Scale Electrothermal Swing Adsorption System for the Capture and Recovery of Organic Vapors from a Painting Facility," AIChE Spring National Meeting, Orlando, Florida, April 2006.
• Ramirez, D., M. J. Rood, K.J. Hay, L. Luo, G. Grevillot, and D.L. Thurston, "Electrothermal Swing Adsorption with Novel Morphologies of Activated Carbon Adsorbents for the Capture and Recovery of Hazardous Air Pollutants," 99th Annual Meeting of the Air & Waste Management Association, New Orleans, LA, June 2006, 349, 19 pp.
• Jolly, M., P. Winward, V. Pandey, D. Thurston, "Mass Customization Optimization via Social Network Product Architecture Representation," to appear, Proc. ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (September 2005).

TECHNICAL REPORTS

• Goble, R., D. Hattis, M. Ballew, and D. L. Thurston. Implementation of the occupational lead exposure standard. A working paper of the Hazard Assessment Group, Center for Technology, Environment, and Development, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 1983.
• Carmichael, A. D., M. J. Markow, P. L. Dintrans, A. M. Salhotra, E. E. Adams, D. H. Marks, S. Mukherji, and D. L. Thurston. A state-of-the-art study of nonconvective solar ponds for power generation. Electric Power Research Institute Report AP-3842, January 1985.
• Riggs, J. P. and D. L. Thurston. Carbon fiber composites case study, National Research Council: Materials Sciences and Engineering Study, Panel 2: Technological Innovations and Technology Transfer, October 24, 1986.
• Thurston, D. L. Towards integration of multiattribute utility analysis and expert systems at the rule level for optimal design. Technical Report, UIUC, February, 1989.
• Thurston, D. L. Multiattribute utility analysis in engineering design management. Technical Report, UIUC, February, 1989.
• Thurston, D.L., Y.Q. Tian, General Motors Systems Engineering Long Range Planning Program, January 1993.
• Thurston, D.L. and E. Spellman, Analysis of Cogeneration, Nestle-Beich, April 1993.
• Thurston, D.L., J.V. Carnahan and C. Carson, Product and Process Design Tradeoffs for Pollution Prevention,” Interim Report to Armstrong World Industries and IL Hazardous Waste Research and Information Center, May 1995.
• Thurston, D.L., R. Van Valkenberg, and M. McGivern, Wastewater Pretreatment and Disposal Cost Minimization, Nestle-Beich, Bloomington, IL, December 1995.
• Thurston, D.L., A. Wood, Ozone-Friendly Alternatives for Cooling and Refrigeration Systems, Nestle-Beich, Bloomington, IL, December 1995.
• Thurston, D.L., Beeler, C., Narciso, Yocum, T., Optimal Siting for a Ford Manufacturing Facility, December 1996.
• Thurston, D.L., J.V. Carnahan and C. Carson, Product and Process Design Tradeoffs for Pollution Prevention,” Final Report to Report to Armstrong World Industries and IL Hazardous Waste Research and Information Center, May 1996.
• Thurston, D.L. and S. Essington, Integrated Demand-Side Management Decision Making for Co-Generation, EPRI, May 1996.
• Gutowski, T, C. Murphy, D. Allen, D. Bauer, B. Bras, T. Piwonka, P. Sheng, J. Sutherland, D. Thurston, E. Wolff, “Environmentally Benign Manufacturing”, International Technology Research Institute, Baltimore, MD, US, 2001, also through http://itri.loyola.edu/ebm/ and http://www.wtec.org/ebm/.
• Kaldate A, and Thurston D., “Does pollution prevention pay? An Analysis of the Chemical and Pulp & Paper Industry,” Technical Report, Department of General Engineering. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 2002.

MONOGRAPHS:

• Thurston, D. L. The environmental impacts of solar ponds. M.S. Thesis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February, 1984).
• Thurston, D. L. Multiattribute utility analysis of materials selection decisions. Ph.D. thesis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1987).

INDUSTRY SPONSORED CAPSTONE SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT REPORTS

• Beller, J., S. Geis, and R. Legatzke, SeamCraft Quick Cost Estimator, sponsored by SeamCraft, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois, May 1988, D. L. Thurston, advisor.
• Siwinski, S., T. Villegas, and M. Walter, Economic Analysis of Methods for Fly Ash Utilization, sponsored by Archer Daniels Midland Co. of Decatur, Illinois, December 1988, D. L. Thurston, advisor.
• Burch, J. E., A. L. Loomis, R. S. Shanley, D. A. Wilcoxin, Proposed Design Modifications for Reducing Extruder Maintenance, sponsored by Ralston-Purina Co., May 1989, D. L. Thurston, advisor.
• Essington, S., Hausler, E., Moses, T., Taylor, J., An Application of Multiattribute Utility Analysis to the Design of Automobile Body Panels, sponsored by the General Engineering Department, May, 1991, D.L. Thurston, advisor.
• Spellman, E. and T. Mitchell, An Economic Analysis of Industrial In-Plant Power Generation, sponsored by Pre-Finish Metals, May 1992, D. L. Thurston, advisor.
• Cienkus, C., D. Ko and E. Vallejo, Statistical Process Control of Spray Drying Operation, sponsored by Kraft Food Ingredients, May, 1993, D.L. Thurston, advisor.
• Beck, O., Bernard, Y., Hatch, M., Identification of Plant Emissions, sponsored by Armstrong World Industries Inc., December, 1993, D.L. Thurston, advisor.
• Burt, S., Clauson, D., Larson, B., Identification of Plant Air Emissions - Phase II, sponsored by Armstrong World Industries Inc., May 1994, D.L. Thurston, advisor.
• Binder, B., Carmichael, K., Daly, C., Westerman, M., Environmental Input/Output Assessment, sponsored by Armstrong World Industries Inc., December 1994, D.L. Thurston, advisor.
• McGivern, M., Stephan A., Cwynar, J., VanValkenburg, R., Cost Effective Waste Treatment, sponsored by Prefinish Metals, 1995, D. L. Thurston, advisor.
• Beeler, C., Narciso, Yocum, T., Optimal Siting for a Manufacturing Facility, sponsored by Ford Motor Company, December 1996, D. L. Thurston, advisor.
• Frake, A., Mikulina, J. and Rosenberg, D., Energy Reclamation from a Kiln, sponsored by National Gypsum, May 1997, D. L. Thurston, advisor.
• Crawford, C, Cunningham, B. and Gutrich, K., Design and Development of a Web-Based Recruitment Information Form, December 1997, sponsored by Arthur Andersen, D.L. Thurston, advisor.
• Sutton, B., Vaughan, E. and Williams, C., Ethylene-Propylene-diene Monomer Sheet Handling, sponsored by Carlisle SynTec, Inc, December 1988, D.L. Thurston, advisor.
• Beckman, S., Benoist, J. and Luk, M., Packaging System Design, May 1998, sponsored by Revereware, D.L Thurston, advisor.
• Aratyn, Y., Nieng, J, and Wyckoff, S., Lifecycle Analysis of Magnesium vs. Plastic in Cellular Phone Housings, May 2000, sponsored by Motorola, D.L. Thurston, advisor.
• Arslanalp, D., Ebersole, T. and Geary, E., Zero Wastewater Discharge Operation, May 2001, sponsored by International Paper, D.L. Thurston, advisor.
• Peek, J, Quaid, P. and Simpson, C., Analysis and Design of Baby Changing Table, 2003, sponsored by Stevens Industries, D.L. Thurston, advisor.
• Kustusch, J., Marvel, B. and Olson, J., Thermal Copper Deposition for Heated Glass Products, 2004, sponsored by Marsco, D.L. Thurston, advisor.
• Burasinsanga, M., Alers, A., Cavanaugh, E, and Scrap Analysis and Reduction, 2004, sponsored by Marsco, D.L. Thurston, advisor.

MS THESIS SUPERVISION

• Shawn Sowers, “An Integer Programming Solution for Long Range Planning Modification Problems under Manpower Constraints,” M.S. in General Engineering, 1990.
• Chris Crawford, “The Integration of Multiattribute Utility Analysis in an Expert System for Material Selection,” M.S. in General Engineering, 1990.
• Michael Safoutin, “A Cognitive Design Model and FMEA Technique for Analysis of Design Teams in Terms of Member Communication,” M.S. in General Engineering, 1990.
• Yun Qi Tian, “The Integration of Multiattribute Utility Analysis under Uncertainty in an Expert System for Material Selection,” M.S. in General Engineering, 1991.
• Alyce Nogal, “Tradeoffs in Engineering Design,” M.S. in General Engineering, 1992.
• Steve Lesniak, “Evaluation of Customer Satisfaction Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Multiattribute Utility Analysis,” M.S. in General Engineering, 1993.
• Rajini Ragavan, “Analytic Decision-Making: Applications in Long Range Planning and Waste Management Project Selection,” M.S. in General Engineering, 1993.
• Edward Spellman, “A Method for Economic Analysis of Industrial Cogeneration,” M.S. in General Engineering, 1994.
• Wade Fallin, “Design Decision Making Using a Matrix Partitioning Approach,” M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1994.
• Phoebe Lenear, “Tradeoffs in Computer Interaction Styles,” M.S. in General Engineering, 1995.
• Christopher Carson, “Modeling Airborne Emissions for Environmentally Conscious Decision-Making,” M.S. in General Engineering, J.V. Carnahan and D. L. Thurston, co-advisers, 1996.
• Adam Wood, “Modeling and Comparison of Primary and Secondary Refrigeration System Performances,” M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1996.
• Todd A. Mitchell, “A Study of the Effect of Component Recycling on Product Development,” M.S. in General Engineering, 1996.
• Zhu Yu, M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998.
  Brian C. Homan, “Case Study of Multiattribute Decision Analysis Integrated with Market Research,” M.S. in General Engineering, 1999.
• Thomas Schriener, “Cost Estimation for Tradeoff Decisions in Design for Manufacturing,” BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering, U of IL at Urbana-Champaign and University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany 1999.
• Robert Urlichs, “A Predictive Quality Model in a Design for Machining Decision Tool with Consideration of Uncertainty,” BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering, U of IL at Urbana-Champaign and University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany 1999.
• Jorge Alvarado, “Microelectronics Design for Pollution Prevention: A Decision Tradeoff Tool,” M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2000.
• Marvelle Berry, “A Machining and Cutting Fluid Decision Tool for Cost, Quality and Environmental Tradeoffs,” M.S. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2000.
• Rogerio Pimentel, “Product Take-Back and Multiattribute Utility Analysis for Scrap Tire Recycling Alternatives,” M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000.
• Donna Mangun, “Product Portfolio Design for Component Reuse, Remanufacturing and Recycling,” M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001.
• Christopher Goddard, “Design for Remanufacturing: A Cell Phone Case Study,” M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001.
• Panicos Nicolaou, “Decision-Based Design and Manufacturing: Optimal Cost, Quality and Environmental Solutions”, M.S. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2001.
• Markos Gkalfas, “Manufacturing Predictors of the Economic Benefits of Pollution Prevention Measures”, M.S. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2001.
• Malte Krill, “Design Methods for Remanufacturing: A Sacrificial Component Case Study,” BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering, U of IL at Urbana-Champaign and University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany 2001.
• Daniel J. Ferrari, “Computer Component Analysis for Redesign for Remanufacture and Recycling”, M.S. in General Engineering, 2002.
• Alessia Ghisellini, “Decision Traps in ISO 14000 Certification of Environmental Management Systems”, M.S. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2002.
• Suresh Srinivasan, “Electric Power Generation and Supply System Design Optimization”, M.S. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2003.
• Jessica de la Torre, “Product Portfolios and Design for Remanufacturing,” M.S. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2005.
• Atul Kulkarni, “Customer Willingness to Make Tradeoffs for Environmentally Conscious Products,” M.S. in General Engineering, 2004.
• Susana Kimura, “Cutting Fluid Choices to Improve Environmental Impact,” M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2006.

PH.D. THESIS SUPERVISION

• Ruofei Sun, “Case-Based Multiattribute Structural Design and Optimization,” Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, 1993.
• Angela Locascio, “A Methodology for Optimal Concurrent Product Design and Decision Making,” Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering, 1994.
• Gina Rahn, “Modification of the Simulated Annealing Optimization Technique and its Application to both a Dynamic Control and Gas Tagging Problem,” Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering, co-advisor, 1995.
• Li Wang, “Development, Evaluation and Improvement of a Long-Range Pavement Rehabilitation Program,” Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, co-advisor, 1995.
• Osvaldo Morera, “An Investigation of Decomposed and Holistic Judgments in Multiattribute Decision Making: Generalizing the “Divide and Conquer” Principle,” Ph.D. in Psychology, on committee, 1996.
• Anne M. Raich, “An Evolutionary Based Methodology for Representing and Evolving Structural Design Solutions,” Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, on committee, 1999.
• Laura Albert, “Passenger Screening Strategies for Aviation Security,” Ph.D. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, on committee, 2005.
• Amit Kaldate, “Design Methodology for an Air Pollution Control System to Recover and Reuse Solvents”, Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2005.
• Steve Harper, "Using Stranded Asset Analysis to Inform Distributed Incremental System Design," Ph.D. in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering, May 2006.
• Hamid Emamipour, “Air Pollution Control System Design for Solvent Recovery”, Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, anticipated 2007.
• Vijit Pandey, "Distributed Computing for Efficient Product Design", Ph.D. in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering, anticipated 2007.

FUNDED RESEARCH

Professor Thurston has obtained nearly $3 million in external funding from industrial and governmental sources in support of her research program. The most recent project is "Randomized Distributed Data Structures for Product Design" funded in 2005 by the National Science Foundation.

SELECTED SERVICE ACTIVITIES

ASME

• 1993-98, 2002-03 Associate Technical Editor in Design Theory and Methodology for the
  ASME Journal of Mechanical Design
• 1998 ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methodology review coordinator (and previous multiple years)
• 1999 ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methodology Program Chair
• 2000 ASME Conference on Design Theory and Methodology Conference Chair

International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED)

• 1997 Invited to serve as “Stream Chair” for Lifecycle Design, Tampere, Finland.
• 1999 Invited to serve as chairperson, Munich, Germany.
• 2001 Invited to serve on scientific advisory board, Glasgow, Scotland.
• 2003 Invited to serve on review board, Stockholm, Sweden.

National Science Foundation

• Multiple Proposal Review Panels for Engineering Design, Division of Design and Manufacturing Systems, Washington, D.C., 1993 - 2006.
• Invited to Strategic Planning Workshop on Engineering Design, Phoenix, AZ, May 1995.
• Served on Site Visit for Engineering Design, 1995.
• Invited to First Workshop on Decision-Based Design, November 1996.
• Invited speaker, “Decision Theory 101,” Workshop on Decision-Based Design, September 1998.
• Invited speaker, “Limitations of Decision-Based Design,” Workshop on Decision-Based Design, January 2000.
• Panel for Assessment of Environmentally Benign Manufacturing Technologies, 1999-2000.
• Invited to Workshop on Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing, Berlin, 2004.

National Academy of Engineering

• 1995 Invited to National Academy of Engineering Workshop
• 1996 Planning Committee for Frontiers in Engineering Workshop
• 1997 Planning Committee for Frontiers in Engineering Workshop
• 1998 Invited to First German-American Frontiers in Engineering Workshop

Manuscript Reviewer
Professor Thurston has served as manuscript reviewer for a wide range of technical journals, including ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Environmental Science & Technology, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Institute of Industrial Engineers Transactions, Journal of Industrial Ecology and Research in Engineering Design.

University and College of Engineering

• University level Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2003-2005
• Vice Chancellor for Research Search Committee, 2001-2002
• Dean Search Committee, 2000-2001, 2005-2006
• College Executive Committee (elected by Department), 1999-2002, 2004 -2005
• Climate for Women Faculty in College of Engineering Committee, Chair 1999-2000
• Graduate College, Engineering and Physical Sciences Area Subcommittee, 1996-1998
• Faculty Advisor to Society of Women Engineers, 1987-1994
• Faculty Advisor to Scientists for the Environment
• Reviewer, Campus Research Board Proposals
• Affirmative Action Liaison Committee, Chair
• Discovery Program for high school juniors
• Faculty Retreat Planning Committee
• Dean’s Task Force on Women Faculty and Graduate Students, 1993
• Awards Committee, 1998 – 2005

Department of General Engineering
Advisory (elected), Capricious Grading, Curriculum, Faculty Search, Graduate Policy, Registration and Advising, Student Relations committees; Operations Research group coordinator, Ph.D. program development committee, IE/GE merger committee, affirmative action officer.