Maria Yang
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 at mit dot edu
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.
Dr. Tomonori Honda, PhD California Institute of Technology
Justin Lai, MS expected 2009, Mechanical Engineering
Sangita Subramanian - MS, System Design and Management
Teoman Ustun - MS, System Design and Management
Tiffany Tseng - SB expected 2009, Mechanical Engineering
Wayne Hollman - SB expected 2011, Mechancial Engineering
Haifeng Ji - PhD, August 2008, University of Southern California, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Taylor Roan - MS, June 2008, Mechanical Engineering
Matthew Aquaro - MS, 2008, Systems Design and Management
Safwan Zaheer - MS, 2008, Systems Design and Management
Holly Greenberg (thesis) - SB, June 2008, Mechanical Engineering
David Kalk (thesis) - SB, June 2008, Mechanical Engineering
Jeff Kirby (thesis) - SB, June 2008, Mechanical Engineering
Emily Li (thesis) - SB, June 2008, Mechanical Engineering
Alex St. Claire (thesis) - SB, June 2008, Mechanical Engineering
Joshua Velasquez, SB, June 2008, Management
Jasmin Baek, SB, June 2010, Architecture/Mechanical Engineering
Kevin Kleinguetl, SB, June 2011, Mechanical Engineering
Linda Liu, SB, June 2011