Amlan Mukherjee

PhD, University of Washington
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Service Systems Engineering Program,
Michigan Tech.

201D, Dillman Hall
Email: amlan at mtu dot edu

[ Education | Experience | Research | Teaching | Publications | Talks | Student Advising | Service | Personal ]

Education

PhD, University of Washington, Seattle
MS, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
BE, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

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Research Interests

Amlan Mukherjee focuses his research and professional activities primarily in the area of planning and decision making in infrastructure system management. He develops models and implements simulations that can aid decision makers assess design alternatives and explore what-if scenarios. The goal of his research is to investigate and predict behavior of civil infrastructure systems, and develop new predictive algorithms that support the decision-making processes.

Current Research

An Integrative Framework to Study Carbon Emissions of Road Construction Projects, PI: Amlan Mukherjee, Co-PI: Kris Mattila Funding Agency: Michigan DOT. (Project Value: $200,000 May 2009-April 2010).
Carrying Capacity Assessment of the Great Lakes Natural Environment of Western Michigan, PI: Bill Brefle, Co-PI: Amlan Mukherjee, John Sutherland Funding Agency: Colcom Foundation. (Project Value: $ 115,100).
Understanding Mental Models of Expertise in Construction management Using Interactive Adaptive Simulations, PI: Amlan Mukherjee Funding Agency: National Science Foundation. (Project Value: $228,086, December 2006 - December 2009).
Collaborative Learning in Construction management through Situational Simulations,Michigan Tech. PI: Amlan Mukherjee Funding Agency: Fund for the Improvement of Secondary Education (FIPSE), US Department of Education. (Project Value: $270,773, January 2007 - December 2009).
A Collaborative Laboratory in Immersive Technology in Michigan Tech., Co-PI: Deak Helton, Amlan Mukherjee and Jindong Tan. Funding Agency: Research Excellence Fund, Michigan Tech., State of Michigan. (Project value: $50,000, August 2006 - July 2007).
A Collaborative Laboratory for Human-Robot Interaction at Michigan Tech, Co-PI on University wide grant, PI: Deak Helton. Funding Agency: DARPA (DURIP), Department of Defense. (Project value: $467,017. CEE scope: $120,000 shared with Yue Li. April 2007 - March 2008).

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Experience

Employer	Period	Position

Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI
- Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering	2005-Present	Assistant Professor
- Service Systems Engineering Program	2008-Present

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering	2004-2005	Pre-Doctoral Instructor
- Human Interface Technology Lab. (HITL)	2001-2003	Research Associate

North Star Leadership Group, Phoenix, AZ
Management Consultants	July - December 2004	Consultant

University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY
- Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering	August 2000-2001	Graduate Assistant

Development Consultants Ltd., Bombay, India	January - July 2000

Development Consultants Ltd., Calcutta, India	Summer 1999	Junior Engineer

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Teaching

SSE 4600 - Managing Risk

Fall Semester 2009

SSE 2300 - Service Systems Design

Spring Semester 2009

CE 4990 - Computer Applications in CEE

Fall Semester 2009

Fall Semester 2008

CE/CSE 5710 - Modeling and Simulation

Spring Semester 2009

Spring Semester 2008

Spring Semester 2007

CE 5690 - Descriptive Data Modeling

Spring Semester (with Dr. Veronica Griffis) 2008

CE 4333 - Estimating Planning and Control

Fall Semester (with Dr. Kris Mattila) 2007

Spring/Fall Semester 2006

Fall Sememster 2005

CEE 498A - AutoCAD Design @ University of Washington

Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005: Class Website

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Student Advising

PhD Students:

Yongliang Jin, Civil Engineering (Current, Expected 2011)
Helen Muga, Environmental Engineering (2008) (With Dr. Jim Mihelcic) (Currently Post-Doc at Univ. of South Florida)

MS Students:

Darrell Cass, Civil Engineering (Current)
Pei Tang, Civil Engineering (Current)
Collin Osenroth, Civil Engineering (Summer 2008)
Matt Watkins, Computer Science (Summer 2008) (With Dr. Nilufer Onder)
G. Ryan Anderson, Computer Science (Summer 2007) (With Dr. Nilufer Onder)
Kedar Gadgil, Civil Engineering (2006)

Undergraduate Students:

Corey Tebo (Computer Science, Current)
Kekoa Kaaikala (Computer Science, Current)
Tanya Lynn Andryscik (Civil Engineering, 2008)
DaVaughn Dixon (Civil Engineering, 2007)
Jessica Anderson (Computer Science, 2007)

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Publications

Journals

Mukherjee, A., Johnson, D., Jin, Y. & Kieckhafer, R. (2009)``Using Situational Simulations to Support Decision Making in Co-dependent Infrastructure Systems,'' International Journal of Critical Infrastructure, Accepted.
Dossick, C. S., Mukherjee, A, Rojas, E. M. & Tebo, C. (2009) ``Developing Construction Management Events in Situational Simulations,'' Journal of Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Blackwell-Wiley, Vol. 24(4) pp- 1-13.
Anderson, G. Ryan, Mukherjee, A. & Onder, N. (2009) ``Traversing and Querying Constraint Driven Temporal Networks to Estimate Construction Contingencies,'' Journal of Construction Automation, Elsevier, Vol. 18(6) pp - 798-813.
Muga H., Mukherjee, A., Mihelcic, J. & Kueber, M. (2009) ``Integrated Environmental and Economic Comparison of Continuously Reinforced and Jointed Plain Concrete Pavements,'' Journal of Engineering Design and Technology, Special Issue on Green Construction, Vol 7(1) pp 81-98.
Watkins, M. T., Mukherjee, A., Onder, N. & Mattila, K.G. (2009) ``Using Agent Based Modeling to Study Construction Labor Productivity as an Emergent Property of Individual and Crew Interactions.'' Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Vol 135(7) pp - 657-667
Watkins, M. T. & Mukherjee, A. (2009) ``Using Adaptive Simulations to Develop Situational Models of Human Decision-making,'' Journal of Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning (TICL), Issue 3, Vol 6, pp 177-192.
Muga, H., Mukherjee, A. & Mihelcic, J. (2008) ``An Integrated Assessment of the Sustainability of Green and Conventional Roofs,'' Journal of Green Building, Vol 3(2), 106-127.
Rojas, E.M. & Mukherjee, A. (2007) ``Virtual Coach: A Situational Simulation Environment for Construction Management Education,'' Revista Ingenieria de Construccion, Vol. 22, (1), 1-22.
Rojas, E. & Mukherjee, A. (2006). ``A Multi-Agent Framework for General-Purpose Situational Simulations in the Construction Management Domain,'' Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 20(6), 1-12.
Rojas, E. & Mukherjee, A. (2005). ``A General-Purpose Situational Simulation Environment for Construction Education,'' Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 131 (3), 319-329.
Rojas, E. & Mukherjee, A. (2005). ``Temporal Interval Logic in General-Purpose Situational Simulations,'' Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 19 (1), 83-93.
Rojas, E. & Mukherjee, A. (2003). ``Modeling the Construction Management Process to Support Situational Simulations,'' Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 17 (4), 273-280.

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Book Chapter

Wood, M.; Mukherje, A.; Bridges, T. & Linkov, I. (2009) A Mental Modeling Approach to Study Decision-Making in Dynamic Task Environments. In Chinyio, E. and Olomolaiye, P. (editors) Construction Stakeholder Management. London: Blackwell-Wiley.

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Peer Reviewed Conferences

Mukherjee, A., Onder N., Tebo, C. and Kaaikala, K. (2009)``An experimental framework to analyze alternative decision-making strategies using situational simulations in construction management.'' In Proceedings of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference, ed. M. D. Rossetti, R. R. Hill, B. Johansson, A. Dunkin, and R. G. Ingalls, eds. **-**: Piscataway, New Jersey: Institute of Electrical Engineers, Inc.
Mukherjee, A. and Muga, H.(2009) ``A Decision-Making Framework to Assess Stakeholder Value in Adoption of Sustainable Practices in Construction.'' In Proceeding of the 2009 Construction Research Congress April 4-7, 2009 S. T. Ariaratnam and E. Rojas, Eds., pp. 548557.
Mukherjee, A., Onder N. and Rojas E. M. (2009) ``Research Methods Associated with Situational Simulations in Construction.'' In Proceeding of the 2009 Construction Research Congress April 4-7, 2009 S. T. Ariaratnam and E. Rojas, Eds., pp. .
Watkins, M.T., Mukherjee, A & Onder, N. (2008) ``Using Situational Simulations to Collect and Analyze Dynamic Construction Management Decision-Making Data.'' In the Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2008 (ACM/SIGSIM), Washington DC in December 8th-10th, 2008 (also presented).
Watkins, M., Mukherjee, A., Onder, N., & Mattila, K. (2007) ``Understanding Labor Productivity as an Emergent Property of Individual and Crew Interactions on a Construction Site,'' In the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Group on Lean Construction (IGLC), July 2007 at Lansing, MI. (also presented)
Anderson, G. R., Onder, N. & Mukherjee, A. (2007) ``Expecting The Unexpected: Representing And Reasoning About Construction Crisis Scenarios'' In the Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (ACM/ SIGSIM), Washington DC in December 9th-12th, 2007 (also presented)
Muga, H., & Mukherjee, A. (2007) ``An Integrated Assessment of the Sustainability of Green Roofs'' International Conference on Sustainability in Engineering, Pittsburg, PA, April 10-12th. 2007.
Mukherjee, A., Muga, H. & Van Dam, T. (2006) ``Towards Building Sustainable Concrete Pavements,'' In the Proceedings of the 1st. International Construction Specialty Conference, Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (CSCE), May 23-26, 2006, Calgary Canada, 2006. (also presented)
Mukherjee, A., Rojas, E. & Winn, W. (2005) ``Exploring Mental Models of Construction Managers'' Construction Congress, ASCE, San Diego.
Mukherjee, A., Rojas, E. & Winn, W. (2005) ``Understanding Cognitive and Meta- Cognitive Processes in Construction Management: The System Dynamics Perspective'' Construction Congress, ASCE, San Diego.
Mukherjee, A., Winn, W. & Rojas, E. (2005) ``Using Agent Driven Situational Simulations for Training Construction Managers'' American Educational Researcher's Annual Meeting, Montreal, 2005.
Mukherjee, A., Rojas, E. & Winn, W. (2004) ``Implementing A General Purpose Framework Using Multi-Agents For Construction Management Education,'' Winter Simulation Conference, ACM/SIGSIM, Washington DC, December, 2004
Mukherjee, A. & Rojas, E. (2003) ``Reasoning about Actions and Events in Situational Simulations,'' Winter Simulation Conference, ACM/SIGSIM, New Orleans, December 7th-10th, 2003.

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Presentations & Workshops

Decision Making in Complex Environments, Invited talk at the Dynamic Decision Making Lab., Carnegie Melon University, November 7th, 2008.
A Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Decision Making, Research Workshop, Organized by US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Washington DC, 22-24th September. Participated at the invitation of Dr. Igor Linkov, USACE.
Visualizing Complex Systems, Amlan Mukherjee, Presentation given at the Upstate Freshwater Institute (UFI), Syracuse, NY at the invitation of Dr. Marty Auer Delivered on November 19th, 2007.
Reasoning under uncertainty: Understanding mental models of Construction Managers, Amlan Mukherjee and Norbert Seel. Presentation given to the Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning Group at the American Education Research Association, Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. Delivered on April 11th, 2007.
Using Situational Simulations to Develop Mental Models of Construction Managers, Amlan Mukherjee, Invited Talk at the Center for Research of Innovative Technologies for Learning (RITL), Florida State University, Jacksonville, FL. Delivered on April 4th, 2007.

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Service

Served on the Organizing and Technical Committee of the Construction Research Congress (ASCE), Seattle 2009

Professional memberships:

Associate Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Member, Construction Research Council
Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Simulations (SIGSIM)

Reviewer for:

ASCE Journals: Construction Engineering and Management, Materials in Civil Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Water Resources Planning and Management, Architectural Engineering
Winter Simulation Conference, 2007, 2008 ACM/SIG-SIM/IEEE, (Referred conference)
Construction Research Congress 2009, (ASCE) (Referred conference)

Departmental and university service:

Designed and implemented a web-based system for faculty to review graduate student applications.
Serving on the Ad-Hoc Committee investigating CEE Departmental realignment/re-organization, Current.
Chaired the Ad-Hoc Committee to recommend improvements to the CEE Graduate Research Committee, Summer 2008
Faculty co-chair of the Green-Ops sub-committee of the University Environmental Sustainability Committee, 2006 Fall.
Served on the CEE Graduate Research Committee, 2005-2006.

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