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Azarm, Shapour Shapour Azarm Professor Director, Design Decision Support Lab Department of Mechanical Engineering 2155 Glenn L. Martin Hall, Building 088 University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Email: azarm@umd.edu (link sends e-mail) Phone: 301-405-5250 Fax: 301-314-9477 Website (link is external) Research Interests Design Optimization: Design optimization under uncertainty with: (i) single or multiple design objectives; (ii) multiple coupled subsystems Product Design for Market Systems: Design of competitive single products, product lines, and bundled products with upstream (parts/modules suppliers) and/or downstream (manufacturers, retailers) supply chain Approximation Assisted Simulation-Based Design: Approximation strategies combined with multi-objective optimization for engineering design that requires computationally intensive analysis like CFD, FEA Decision Support Systems: Interactive multi-attribute decision analysis strategies that facilitate selection from multiple alternatives Applications: Examples include consumer electronics (smart phones, tablet computers); heat exchangers; power tools; power electronics; data centers; oil refineries; unmanned vehicles (walking machines; UAVs, UUVs); network infrastructure planning Dr. Azarm was formerly a Navy Senior Faculty Fellow at NSWC-Carderock, NASA Goddard Faculty Fellow, Visiting Scientist at NASA Langley, and Visiting Professor at both the Research Center for Multidisciplinary Analysis and Applied Structural Optimization of the University of Siegen in Germany and at Design Institute of Technical University of Denmark. Education Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1984