Current Research

At Florida Institute of Technology, I worked on the National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Project in collaboration between Systems Research on Intelligent Design and Engineering (STRIDE) Lab at Florida Institute of Technology and Clemson Engineering Design Applications and Research (CEDAR) Lab at Clemson University for my PhD dissertation. This research will explore the evolution of design requirements throughout the design process utilizing network models and data analytic techniques.

Publications

• Dissertation: Computational Support for Measuring Requirement Change Volatility in Complex System Design.
• Thesis: Predicting Requirement Change Propagation through Investigation of Physical and Functional Domains

Papers & Articles

1. Hein, P.H., Menon, V., and Morkos, B., Exploring Requirement Change Propagation Through the Physical and Functional Domain, ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Boston, MA, doi:10.1115/DETC2015-47756.
2. Hein, P.H., Morkos, B., and Sen, C., Utilizing Node Interference Method and Complex Network Centrality Metrics to Explore Requirement Change Propagation, ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Cleveland, OH, doi:10.1115/DETC2017-67930.
3. Hein, P.H., Voris, N., and Morkos, B., Identifying Failure Modes and Effects through Design for Assembly Analysis, ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Quebec City, Canada, doi:10.1115/DETC2018-86314.
4. Hein, P.H., Voris, N., Morkos, B., Predicting Requirement Change Propagation through Investigation of Physical and Functional Domains, Research in Engineering Design, DOI: 10.1007/s00163-017-0271-6.
5. Hein, P.H., Kames, E., Cheng, C., and Morkos, B., Employing Machine Learning Techniques to Assess Requirement Change Volatility, Research in Engineering Design, DOI: 10.1007/s00163-020-00353-6.
6. Hein, P.H., Kames, E., Cheng, C., and Morkos, B., Reasoning Support for Predicting Requirement Change Volatility using Complex Network Metrics, Journal of Engineering Design, DOI: 10.1080/09544828.2022.2154051.
7. Hein, P.H., and Morkos, B., Analyzing Change Propagation in Requirements through Complex Network Interference, Submitted to Journal of Computing & Information Science in Engineering.

Awards and Posters:

1. 2017 ASME/NSF Design Essay Award & Poster: Integrating Data Intelligence in Product Development.
2. 2016 ASME IDETC/CIE Graduate Research Poster Award: Measuring Requirement Volatility through Graph Theoretic Metrics.
3. 2015 ASME/NSF Design Essay Award & Poster: Next Generation Product Design Development Tool Utilizing Social Media Data – An Intelligent Tool for Design Automation. 
4. 2015 ASME IDETC/CIE Graduate Research Poster Award: Enhancing Requirement Change Propagation Tool through Physical and Functional Domains.