Robert N. Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 3-449B, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, tel 617-324-5592, email mcyang@mit.edu, webpage http://web.mit.edu/ideation/index.html
Dr. Yang's research interest is in the process of designing products and systems, particularly in the early phases of the design cycle. Dr. Yang earned her SB in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and her MS and PhD from Stanford University's Mechanical Engineering Department, Design Division under an NSF Graduate Fellowship. More recently, she was an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, and before that a postdoctoral instructor of design in the mechanical engineering department of the California Institute of Technology. She has been a lecturer in design at Stanford University. She is the 2006 recipient of an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. Dr. Yang’s industrial experience includes serving as Director of Design at Reactivity, a Silicon Valley software company now a part of Cisco Systems. She has done research into collaborative design tools at Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group and Lockheed Artificial Intelligence Center. In addition, she has explored the user interaction issues for software design, as well as ergonomics issues of force-feedback devices for Immersion Corporation.
M. C. Yang (Accepted). "Consensus and Single Leader Decision-making in Teams Using Structured Design Methods." Design Studies. 2009
T. Honda, F. Ciucci, K. Lewis, and M. C. Yang. (2010) "A Comparison of Information Passing Strategies in System Level Modeling." DETC2010-29026. Proceedings of the 2010 ASME Intl Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Aug 15 – 18, Montreal, Canada.
T. Honda, M. C. Yang, A. Dong, and H. Ji. (2010) "A Comparison of Formal Methods for Evaluating the Language of Preference in Engineering Design." DETC2010- 29045. Proceedings of the 2010 ASME Intl Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Aug 15 – 18, Montreal, Canada.
N. Merah , M. C. Yang, D. Wallace, W. Seering, V. Tang, A. F. Arif, A.-S. Eleiche, A.- R. Shuaib, N. Abu-Dheir, and H. M. S. Bahaidarah. (2010) "A Global Collaborative Effort to Enhance Design in a Mechanical Engineering Curriculum in Saudi Arabia." DETC2010- 28784. Proceedings of the 2010 ASME Intl Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Aug 15 – 18, Montreal, Canada.
L. A. Elizondo, L. Kisselburgh, E. D. Hirleman, K. Ramani, M. C. Yang, and T. Carleton. (2010) "Understanding Innovation in Student Design Projects." DETC2010-28985. Proceedings of the 2010 ASME Intl Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Aug 15 – 18, Montreal, Canada.
J. Lai, T. Honda, and M. C. Yang. (Accepted) “A Study of the Role of User-Centered Design Methods in Design Team Projects.” AI EDAM: Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing.
J. Lai and M. C. Yang (2009) “Introducing User Centered Design to Mid-Career Professionals: Experiences to Build Upon.” International Association of Societies of Design Research, October 18-22, 2009. Seoul, Korea.
M. C. Yang. “Observations on Concept Quantity and Sketching in Design.” (2009) Research in Engineering Design 20(1):1-11 .
Z. Li , M. C. Yang, and K. Ramani (2009). "A Methodology for Engineering Ontology Acquisition and Validation.” AI EDAM: Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing .23(1): 37-51.
C. J. Walthall, L. Kisselburgh, E. D. Hirleman, S. Devanathan, K. Ramani, M. C. Yang (2009) "A Perspective for Evaluating Wikis as a Medium for Communication Within Engineering Design Teams.” ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, August 30-September 2, 2009, San Diego, CA .
T. Honda, F. Ciucci, and M. C. Yang (2009) “Achieving Pareto Optimality in a Decentralized Design Environment.” International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED09, August 24-27, 2009, Stanford, CA.
D. A. Broniatowski, C. L. Magee, J. F. Coughlin, and M. C. Yang (2009) “Bayesian Analysis of Decision Making in Technical Expert Committees.” Conference on Systems Engineering Research, April 20-23, 2009, Loughborough, UK.
D. Broniatowski, J. Coughlin, C. L. Magee, and M. C. Yang (2009) "Quantitative Analysis of Group Decision Making for Complex Engineered Systems." 3rd Annual IEEE Systems Conference, March 2009, Vancouver, Canada.
M. C. Yang (2009). “Observations on Concept Quantity and Sketching in Design.” Research in Engineering Design. 20(1):1-11.
Z. Li , M. C. Yang, and K. Ramani (2009). “A Methodology for Engineering Ontology Acquisition and Validation.” AI EDAM: Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing. 23(1): 37-51.
J. Y. Lai, E. T. Roan, H. C. Greenberg, and M. C. Yang. (2008) “Prompt versus Problem: Helping Students Learn to Frame Problems and Think Creatively". 2nd Design Creativity Workshop, Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition. Atlanta, GA, USA, June 2008.
M. C. Yang and Y. Jin. (2008) “An Examination of Team Effectiveness in Distributed and Co-located Engineering Teams.” International Journal of Engineering Education. 24(2): 400-408.
D. A. Broniatowski, C. L. Magee, J. F. Coughlin, and M. C. Yang (2008) “The Influence of Institutional Bias on System Review and Approval.” Conference on Systems Engineering Research, April 4, 2008, Los Angeles, CA.
M. C. Yang and J. G. Cham (2007) “An Analysis of Sketching Skill and its Role in Early Stage Engineering Design.” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. 129(5): 476-482.
H. Ji, M. C. Yang and T. Honda (2007) “Probabilistic Approaches for Extracting Design Preferences from Design Team Discussion.” ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. September 4-7, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
M. C. Yang (2007) “Design Methods, Tools, and Outcome Measures: A Survey of Practitioners.” ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. September 4-7, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
M. C. Yang and H. Ji (2007) “A Text-Based Analysis Approach to Representing the Design Selection Process.” International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED07, August 28-31, 2007, Paris, France.
M. C. Yang and Y. Jin (2007) “An Examination of Team Effectiveness in Distributed and Co-located Engineering Teams.” Mudd Design Workshop VI: Design and Engineering in a Flat World. Harvey Mudd College, Pomona, CA, 23–25 MAY 2007
M. C. Yang. (2005) "A study of prototypes, design activity, and design outcome." Design Studies. 26 (6): 649-669.
J. G. Cham and M. C. Yang. (2005) “Does sketching skill relate to good design?” 2005 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, September 24-28, 2005, Long Beach, California, USA.
M. C. Yang, W. Wood and M. Cutkosky. (2005) "Design information retrieval: a thesauri-based approach for reuse of informal design information." Engineering with Computers. 21 (2): 177-192.
M. C. Yang. (2004) “An Examination of Prototyping, Time, and Design Outcome.” Proceedings of 2004 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, September 28 - October 2, 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah USA
M. C. Yang. (2003) “Concept Generation and Sketching: Correlations with Design Outcome.” Proceedings of 2003 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Chicago, IL, USA, September 2-6, 2003.
J. T. Dennerlein and M. C. Yang. (2001) "Haptic Force-Feedback Devices for the Office Computer: Performance and Musculoskeletal Loading Issues." Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing. 43 (2): 278-86.
D. Crow and M. C. Yang. (2001) “Industry Briefs: Reactivity.” ACM Interactions. 8(2): 71 – 74.
M. C. Yang and M. R. Cutkosky. (1999) “Machine Generation of Thesauri: Adapting to Evolving Vocabularies in Design Documentation.” Proceedings of the International Conference in Engineering Design, Munich, Germany, Aug. 24-26, 1999.
T. Liang, D. M. Cannon, J. M. Feland, A. Mabogunje, S. Yen, M. C. Yang, and L. J. Leifer. (1999) “New Dimensions in Internet-Based Design Capture and Reuse.” Workshop on Internet-Based Design in the International Conference Engineering Design. Munich, Germany, Aug. 24-26, 1999.
L. J. Leifer, T. Liang, D. M. Cannon, J. M. Feland, A. Mabogunje, S. Yen, and M. C. Yang. (1999) “Experience Capture and Reuse for Complex System Design-Deployment: Position Paper Based on Our Experience Using the Internet.” Proceedings of the International Conference Problems of Control and Modeling in Complex Systems, Samara, Russia, June 14-18, 1999.
J. T. Dennerlein and M. C. Yang. (1999) “Perceived Musculoskeletal Loading During Use of A Force-Feedback Computer Mouse.” Human Factors and Ergonomic Society ‘99. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Houston, TX, Sept. 27-Oct. 1, 1999.
M. C. Yang, W. H. Wood, and M. R. Cutkosky. (1998) “Data Mining for Thesaurus Generation in Informal Design Information Retrieval.” Proceedings of the 1998 International Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering. ASCE. Boston, MA, Oct. 18-21, 1998.
W. H. Wood, M. C. Yang, M. R. Cutkosky, and A. M. Agogino. (1998) “Design Information Retrieval: Improving Access to the Informal Side of Design.” Proceedings of the 1998 Design Engineering Technical Conferences 10th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology. Atlanta, GA, Sept. 13-16, 1998.
M. C. Yang and M. R. Cutkosky. (1997) “Automated Indexing of Design Concepts for Information Management.” Proceedings of the International Conference in Engineering Design, Tampere, Finland, Aug. 19-21, 1997.