Irem Tumer Dr. Irem Tumer

Vice President for Research
Professor, School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Oregon State University

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Oregon State University
School of Mechanical, Industrial,
and Manufacturing Engineering
129 Covell Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331-6001

Phone: (541) 737-6627 
Fax: (541) 737-2600

 

Biography

Dr. Irem Y. Tumer, ASME Fellow, is a Professor in Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University, where she leads the Complex Engineered System Design Group. Her research focuses on the overall problem of designing highly complex and integrated engineering systems with reduced risk of failures, and developing formal methodologies and approaches for complex system design and analysis. Since moving to Oregon State University in 2006, her funding has largely been through NSF, AFOSR, DARPA, and NASA. Prior to accepting a faculty position at OSU, Dr. Tumer led the Complex Systems Design and Engineering group in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center, where she worked from 1998 through 2006 as Research Scientist, Group Lead, and Program Manager.  Dr. Tumer has been Conference Chair for ASME’s Design for Manufacturing and the Lifecycle conference in 2000, Program Chair for IEEE Reliability Society’s  Prognostics and Health Management Conference in 2008, and Program Chair (2011)  and Conference Chair (2012) for ASME’s International Design Theory  and Methodology  Conference;  and is current  Associate Editor  for  ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and  the International Journal  of  Prognostics  and  Health  Management, and guest editor for AEIDAM journal.  She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1998.

Curriculum Vitae

  

Publications

Journal Articles Published :  

  1. D. Hulse, C. Hoyle, K. Goebel, I.Y. Tumer, “Quantifying the Resilience-Informed Scenario Cost Sum: A Value Driven Design Approach for Functional Hazard Assessment.” Invited paper, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. 141(2). 2019.
  2. H.S. Walsh, A. Dong, I. Y. Tumer, “An Analysis of Modularity as a Design Rule Using Network Theory.” Invited paper, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. 141(3). 2019.
  3. L. Irshad, S. Ahmed, O. Demirel, I.Y. Tumer, “Computational Functional Failure Analysis To Identify Human Errors During Early Design Stages.” Invited paper, ASME Journal of Computing & Information Sciences in Engineering. Pending publication. 2019.
  4. L. Irshad, S. Ahmed, H.O. Demirel, I.Y. Tumer, “Using Rio-Paris Flight 447 Crash To Assess Human Error And Failure Propagation Analysis Early In Design.” ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering. In review in Special Issue. 2019.
  5. N. Soria, R.B. Stone, H.O.  Demirel, I.Y. Tumer, “Identification of Human-System Interaction Errors During Early Design Stages Using a Functional Basis Framework.” ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering. In review in Special Issue. 2019.
  6. D. Hulse, K. Tumer, C. Hoyle, I.Y. Tumer, “Modelling Multidisciplinary Design with Multiagent Learning.”  AIEDAM Journal. 33(1), 85-99. 2019.
  7. H. Walsh, A. Dong, I.Y. Tumer, “The Role of Bridging Nodes in Behavioral Network Models of Complex Engineered Systems.” Design Science, Vol 4, E8. 2018.
  8. N. Soria, M. Colby, I.Y. Tumer, C. Hoyle, K. Tumer, “Design of Complex Engineered Systems Using Multiagent Coordination.” ASME Journal of Computing & Information Sciences in Engineering. 18(2). 2018.
  9. R. Arlitt, D. VanBossuyt, I.Y. Tumer, R.B. Stone, “The function-based design for sustainability method.” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. 139(4). 2017.
  10. J. Piacenza, M. A. Bozorgirad, C. Hoyle, I.Y. Tumer, “Robust topology design of complex infrastructure systems.”ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering.  3(2). 2017.
  11. B. Haley, A. Dong, I.Y. Tumer, “A Comparison of Network Based Metrics of Behavioral Degradation in Complex Engineered Systems.” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. 138(12). 2016.
  12. C. Hsiao, M. Ruffino, R. Malak, I.Y. Tumer, T. Doolen, “Discovering Taxonomic Structure in Design Archive Information: A Study of Risk-Mitigating Actions in a Large Engineering Organization.” Journal of Engineering Design. 27 (1-3), 146-169. 2016.
  13. H. Mehrpouyan, D.Giannakopoulou, G. P. Brat, I. Y. Tumer, C. Hoyle, “Complex Engineered Systems Design Verification Based on Assume-Guarantee Reasoning.” Journal of International Council on Systems Engineering. 19(6): 461-476. 2016.
  14. M. McIntire, C. Hoyle, I.Y. Tumer, D.C. Jensen, “Safety-informed design: using subgraph analysis to elicit hazardous emergent failure behavior in complex systems.” AIEDAM Journal. 30(04): 466-473. 2016.
  15. C.A. Manion, R. Arlitt, M.I. Campbell, I.Y. Tumer, R.B. Stone, P.A. Greaney, “Automated Design of Flexible Linkers.” Dalton Transactions, Royal Society of Chemistry. 2016.
  16. R. Yim, T. Doolen, R. Malak, I.Y. Tumer. “Exploring the Relationship between Rework Projects and Risk Indicators.”  Project Management Journal. 46(4): 63-75. 2015.
  17. R. Yim, T. Doolen, R. Malak, I.Y. Tumer, “Exploring the Relationship between Project Risk and Project Classification.” International Journal of Project Management. 2015.
  18. H. Mehrpouyan, B. Haley, I.Y. Tumer, C. Hoyle, A. Dong, “Resiliency Analysis for Complex System Design.”  AIEDAM Journal. 29(01): 93-108.  February 2015.
  19. D.C. Jensen, O. Bello, C. Hoyle, I.Y. Tumer, “Reasoning about Emergent System Failure Behavior using Large Sets of Qualitative Function-Based Simulation Data.” AIEDAM Journal. Special Issue on Complex System Design 28(04): 385-398. November 2014.
  20. B.M. O’Halloran, B. Haley, D.C. Jensen, R.B. Stone, I.Y. Tumer, “The early implementation of failure modes into component model libraries.” Journal of Research in Engineering Design.  25(3): 203-221. 2014.
  21. S.K. Oman, B. Gilchrist, I.Y. Tumer, R.B. Stone, “The Development of a Repository of Innovative Products (RIP) for Inspiration in Engineering Design.” International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation. 2(4). Distinguished paper award. October 2014.
  22. S. Sierla, B.M. O’Halloran, H. Nikula, N. Papakonstantinou, I.Y. Tumer, “Safety analysis of mechatronic product lines.” Mechatronics. 24(3): 231–240. 2014.
  23. D.L. Van Bossuyt, L. Carvalho, A. Dong, I.Y. Tumer, “On Measuring Engineering Risk Attitudes.” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. 135(12). 2013.
  24. S. Sierla, B.M. O’Halloran, T. Karhela, N. Papakonstantinou, I.Y. Tumer, “Common cause failure analysis of cyber-physical systems situated in constructed environments.” Journal of Research in Engineering Design. October 2013, 24(4): 375-394.
  25. D.L. Van Bossuyt, I.Y. Tumer, S. Wall, “A Case for Trading Risk in Conceptual Design Trade Studies.” Journal of Research in Engineering Design. 24: 259-275. 2013.
  26. C. Metha, D.C. Jensen, I.Y. Tumer, C. Smidts, “An Integrated Multi-Domain Functional Failure and Propagation Analysis Approach for Safe System Design.” AIEDAM Journal. 27(4): 317-347. 2013.
  27. S.K. Oman, I.Y. Tumer, K.L. Wood, C. Seepersad, “A Comparison of Creativity and Innovation Metrics and Validation through In-Class Design Projects.”  Journal of Research in Engineering Design. 24(1): 65-92. 2013.
  28. N. Papakonstantinou, S. Sierla, I.Y. Tumer, D. Jensen, “Multi-Scale Simulation on Interactions and Emergent Failure Behavior During Complex System Design.” ASME Journal of Computing & Information Sciences in Engineering. 12(3). September2012.
  29. S. Sierla, I.Y. Tumer, N. Papakonstantinou, K. Koskinen, D. Jensen, “Early Integration of Safety to the Mechatronic System Design Process for the Functional Failure Identification and Propagation Framework.” Mechatronics.  22(2): 137-151. March 2012.
  30. D.L. Van Bossuyt, C. Hoyle, I.Y. Tumer, A. Dong, “Considering Risk Attitude Using Utility Theory in Risk-Based Design.” AIEDAM Journal. Special Issue on Intelligent Decision Support and Modeling. 26(4). 2012.
  31. R. Hutcheson, D.A. McAdams, I.Y. Tumer, “Function-based behavioral modeling.”The International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology. 4(3). 2012.
  32. A.M. Agogino, A.K. Goel, C.C. Hayes, W.C. Regli, I.Y. Tumer, “Intelligent Systems in Product Design: A Retrospective.” ASME Journal of Computing & Information Sciences in Engineering. 11(2). June 2011.
  33. I.Y. Tumer and C.S. Smidts, “Integrated design-stage failure analysis of software-driven hardware systems.” IEEE Transactions on Computers. Special Issue on Science of Design for Safety Critical Systems. 60(8): 1072-1084. 2011.
  34. E. Coatanea, S. Nonsiri, T. Ritola, I.Y. Tumer, D. Jensen, “Dimensional analysis based behavioral modeling for design-stage failure analysis.” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.  133(12). 2011.
  35. T. Kurtoglu, D. Jensen, I.Y. Tumer, “A functional failure reasoning methodology for evaluation of conceptual system architectures”.Journal of Research in Engineering Design. 21:209-234.2010.
  36. M.R. Bohm, K.R. Haapala, K. Poppa, R.B. Stone, I.Y. Tumer, “Towards integrating sustainability analysis into the conceptual phase of product design.” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. Special Issue in Sustainable design. 132. September 2010. 
  37. C. Hoyle, I.Y. Tumer, A.F. Mehr, W. Chen, “Health Management Allocation for Conceptual System Design.” ASME Journal of Computing & Information Sciences in Engineering. 9(2).  2009.
  38. N. Patransky Robson, J.M. McCarthy, I.Y. Tumer, “Failure recovery planning for an arm actuator failure on an exploratory rover.” The IEEE Transactions on Robotics.   25(6): 1448-1453. 2009.
  39. K. Grantham-Lough, R.B. Stone, and I.Y. Tumer, “The risk in early design method.” Journal of Engineering Design. 20(2). 2009.
  40. K Grantham-Lough, M. Van Wie, R.B. Stone, F. Barrientos, I.Y. Tumer, “Promoting risk communication in early design through linguistic analyses and tools.” Journal of Research in Engineering Design, 20(1): 29. 2009.
  41. K. Grantham-Lough, R.B. Stone, I.Y. Tumer, “Failure prevention through effective cataloguing and utilization of failure events,” Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention.8(5): 469-481. 2008.
  42. N. Patransky Robson, J.M. McCarthy, I.Y. Tumer, “The algebraic synthesis of a spatial TS chain for a prescribed acceleration task.”Mechanisms and Machine Theory. 2008.
  43. K. Grantham-Lough, R.B. Stone, I.Y. Tumer, “Implementation Procedures for the Risk in Early Design (RED) Method,” Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering. 2(2): 126-143. 2008.
  44. T. Kurtoglu and I.Y. Tumer, “A graph based fault identification and propagation framework for functional design of complex systems.” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. 30(5). 2008.
  45. D.A. McAdams, D. Comella, I.Y. Tumer, “Exploring effective methods for simulating damaged structures with geometric variation.”ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, JAM-05-116. 2007.
  46. A.F. Mehr and I.Y. Tumer, “Risk based decision making for managing resources during the design of complex aerospace systems.” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. Special Issue on Robust and Reliability Based Design. 128(4): 1014-1022. July 2006.
  47. R.B. Stone, I.Y. Tumer, M.E. Stock, “Linking product functionality to historical failures to improve failure analysis in design.” Journal of Research in Engineering Design. 16(2): 96-108. 2005.
  48. D.A. McAdams and I.Y. Tumer, “Toward Intelligent fault detection in turbine blades: Variational vibration models of damaged pinned-pinned beams.” ASME Journal of Vibration & Acoustics. 127(5): 467-474. 2005.
  49. R.B. Stone, I.Y. Tumer, M. VanWie, “The Function-Failure Design Method.” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. 127(3): 397-407. 2005.
  50. S.G. Arunajadai, R.B. Stone, I.Y. Tumer, “Failure mode identification through clustering analysis.” Quality and Reliability Engineering International Journal.  20:511-526. 2004.
  51. I.Y. Tumer, R.B. Stone, “Mapping Function to Failure during High-Risk Component Development.”  Journal of Research in Engineering Design. 14: 25-33.  2003.
  52. I.Y. Tumer, E.M. Huff, “Analysis of Triaxial Vibration Data for Health Monitoring of Helicopter Gearboxes.”   ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics. 125(1): 120-128. 2003.
  53. I.Y. Tumer, E.M. Huff, “On the Effects of Production and Maintenance Variations on Rotating Machinery Component Performance.”  Journal of Quality in Maintenance and Engineering. 8(3): 226-238. 2002. (Highly Commended Award, 2002 Volume, Emerald Literati Club.)
  54. E.M. Huff, I.Y. Tumer, E. Barszcz, M. Dzwonczyk, J. McNames,  “Analysis of Maneuvering Effects on Transmission Vibrations in an AH-1 Cobra Helicopter.”  Journal of the American Helicopter Society.  47(1): 42-49. January 2002.
  55. I.Y. Tumer, K.L. Wood, I.J. Busch-Vishniac, “Monitoring of Manufacturing Signals Using the Karhunen-Loeve Transform.”  Mechanical Systems & Signal Processing Journal, 14(6): 1011-1026.  2000.
  56. I.Y. Tumer, R.L. Longoria, K.L. Wood, “Signal Analysis Using the Karhunen-Loeve Transform: Application to Hydrodynamic Forces.” ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering, 122(3): 208-213. 2000.
  57. I.Y. Tumer, K.L. Wood, I.J. Busch-Vishniac, “A Mathematical Transform to Improve Part Surface Quality in Manufacturing.” ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science & Engineering.  122(1): 273-279.  February 2000.
  58. I.Y. Tumer, D.C. Thompson, R.H. Crawford, K.L. Wood, “Characterization of Surface Fault Patterns, with Application to a Layered Manufacturing Process.” Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 17(1): 23-36. 1998.
  59. I.Y. Tumer, R.S. Srinivasan, K.L. Wood, “Investigation of Characteristic Measures for the Analysis and Synthesis of Precision-Machined Surfaces.” Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 14(5): 378-392. 1995.


 

Research

The mission of the Complex Engineered Systems Design Group within the Design Engineering Labs is to develop mathematical frameworks to understand, analyze, model, and design complex and integrated engineered systems that include hardware and software. A common theme in the ongoing CESD Lab research is the concept of failures and the system-level risks and uncertainty associated with failures, a desire to enable the designers of such complex hardware-software systems to meet the stringent robustness, reliability, and safety requirements by developing processes and tools for Systems Engineering, Model-Based Design, and Risk-Informed Design. 

Example research interests include:

  • Risk and Failure informed design for software-hardware systems
  • System-level analysis of complex engineered systems
  • Design of Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Systems
  • Systems requirements development for software-hardware system design and reuse
  • Uncertainty analysis and modeling in large organizations
  • Function based modeling and analysis
  • Verification of complex systems
  • Analysis of connectivity and modularity in complex systems
  • Robust optimization and mitigation of cascading failures
  • Mulitiagent  based design of multidisciplinary engineered systems
  • Network analysis based vulnerability identification

See feature story on our DARPA funded work in Digital Design of Complex Systems.

Funding
  • NSF Award CCF-0741584 (NSF Science Of Design Program): A theory of design decisions. (Awarded 2007.)
  • NSF Award CBET-0742677 (NSF Engineering Virtual Environments Program): VOICED--A virtual organization for innovative conceptual engineering design. (Awarded 2007.)
  • Internal Award (OSU/MIME Internal Seed Funding Call): Understanding and Modeling Design Uncertainty in Real-World Organizations. (Awarded 2008.)
  • AFOSR Award FA9550-08-1-0158 (BAA 2007/Mathematics, Information, and Life Sciences/Software and Systems Program): A Framework for Designing Reliable Software Intensive Systems. (Awarded 2008.)
  • NSF CMMI-0928076 (NSF Engineering Design and Innovation Program): Quantifying Creativity in Automated Design Through a Multiagent Coordination Framework. (Awarded 2009.)
  • NSF CMMI-1030060 (NSF Engineering Design and Innovation Program): A Methodology for Utility-Based Decision Making in Large Design Organizations Using Empirically-Derived Risk Indicators. (Awarded 2010.)
  • NASA JPL Award: Integration of Risk as a Tradeable Parameter in Team-X Using ModelCenter. (Awarded 2010.)
  • NASA Award: Design-Stage Safety Consideration for Critical Systems Through ISHM and Formal Verification and Validation. (Awarded 2010.)
  • DARPA/PARC Award: Formal Co-Verification of Correctness of Large Scale Cyber Physical Systems During Design. (Awarded 2010.)
  • DARPA/Vanderbilt University Award: Probabilistic Requirements Verification Through Uncertainty Propagation. (Awarded 2012.)
  • NASA Marshall/Univ. of Alabama Award: Reliability and Functional Failure Analysis of Complex Cyber-Physical Systems. (Awarded 2012.)
  • DARPA/PARC Award: A Fault Augmented Model Extension Framework for Supporting Verification under the Presence of Faults. (Awarded 2012.)
  • NASA Ames/Carnegie Melon University: Verification of Complex Engineered Systems. (Awarded 2013.)
  • NSF I/UCRC: Center for e-Design. (Awarded 2014.)
  • Keck Foundation. New Shape Shifting Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion. (Awarded 2014.)
  • NSF CMMI-1363509. Collaborative Research: Improving the Safety of Complex Engineered Systems by Identifying Failure Paths Early in the Design Process. (Awarded 2014.)
  • NSF CMMI-1363411. Designing Complex Engineering Systems using Multiagent Coordination Approaches. (Awarded 2015.)
  • NSF IIP-1450424. I-Corps Site: Oregon State University Advantage Accelerator Program Enhancements Toward an NSF I-Corps Site. (Awarded 2015.)
  • NASA NNX15AQ90G. Tools to Support Autonomy in Aviation. (Awarded 2015.)
  • NSF CMMI-1562027. Designing Failure-Tolerant Complex Engineering Systems. (Awarded 2016.)
  • NSF CMMI-167179. Workshop: Designing Systems to Address Global Challenges. (Awarded 2016.)
  • NSF CMMI-1627179.  NSF CAREER Faculty Early Career Development Workshop. (Awarded 2016.)
  • NASA NS295A.  Center for edesign: Distributed Optimization to Support Complex System Design. (2017.)
  • NASA NS294A. Center for edesign: Verification and Validation of Human Centric Operations in Large Scale Systems.(2017.)
  • NASA NS302A. Center for edesign:Identification and Validation of Human Errors in Large-Scale Complex Systems. (2018.)

Teaching