UB - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York UB Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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  • Kemper E. Lewis, Professor, Executive Director, NYSCEDII, Professor for Competitive Product & Process Design

  • Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996
    Office: 5 Norton Hall
    Phone: (716) 645-2685
    FAX: (716) 645-2684
    E-mail: kelewis .at. eng.buffalo.edu
    Curriculum Vitae: Click for PDF
    Research Interests: Collaborative design and decision making, visual design steering, multiobjective optimization, strategic product design, flexible systems design, hybrid optimization.

    Selected Papers:

    • Dolan, B., and Lewis, K., 2008, "Robust Product Family Consolidation and Selection," Journal of Engineering Design, accepted.
    • Ferguson, S.F., Kasprzak, E.M., and Lewis, K., 2008, "Design of a Family of Reconfigurable Vehicles Using Multilevel Multidisciplinary Design Optimization," Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization Journal, accepted.
    • Gurnani, A., and Lewis, K., 2008, "Using Bounded Rationality to Improve Decentralized Design," AIAA Journal, accepted.
    • Chiu, P., Naim, A., Bloebaum, C.L., Lewis, K., 2008, "The Intuitive Visualization of the Hyperspace Pareto Frontier for Multi-attribute Decision-Making Under Uncertainty," International Journal of Product Development, accepted.
    • Olewnik, A., and Lewis, K., 2008, "Limitations of the House of Quality to Provide Quantitative Design Information," International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 125-146.
    • Kulok, M., and Lewis, K., 2007, "A Method to Ensure Preference Consistency in Multiattribute Selection Decisions," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 129, No. 10, pp. 1002-1011.
    • See, T.K., and Lewis, K., 2006, "A Formal Approach to Handling Conflicts in Multiattribute Group Decision Making," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 128, No. 4, pp. 678-688.
    • Chanron, V., and Lewis, K. 2005, "A Study of Convergence in Decentralized Design Processes," Research in Engineering Design, Vol. 16, pp. 133-145.