Resume

• 1990

  Ph.D.

  Industrial and Systems Engineering

  Auburn University

• 1987

  Master of Engineering (MEng)

  Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

  Penn State University

• Coaching

  Lean Manufacturing

  Electronics

  Manufacturing

  Continuous Improvement

  Enterprise Software

  Systems Engineering

  Research

  System Design

  Product Development

  Aerospace

  Consulting

  Mechanical Engineering

  Supply Chain

  Enterprise Architecture

  Cochran

  David

  Purdue University Fort Wayne

  M.I.T. Dept of Mechanical Engineering

  System Design

  LLC

  Cambridge

  Mass

  Established the PSD Lab to develop an engineering based approach for System Design. Research illustrated that when system Functional Requirements (FRs) are achieved

  there is better performance. The purpose of the research is to illustrate that traditional management accounting methods cause smart people to make wrong decisions. By “working on the work

  ” called Physical Solutions (PSs) to achieve system design FRs

  excess cost is driven out of an organization. This system design approach is in contrast to “cutting heads” to “cut cost” as with traditional management accounting methods. Developed road map for designing and sustaining systems that are \"lean.\" \n\nCollaborated with Profs: H. T. Johnson (Portland State Univ.)

  N. P. Suh (M.I.T)

  M. Kawada (Meijo Univ.)

  Paulo Lima (Unicamp)

  Walter Eversheim (Aachen)

  Sharma Taj (U of D) Key Sponsors: Ford Motor Co.

  Robert Bosch GmbH

  Lockheed Martin

  Northrop Grumman

  Lean Aerospace Initiative.

  Assistant and Associate Professor of Mechnaical Engineering

  M.I.T. Dept of Mechanical Engineering

  Purdue University Fort Wayne

  Associate Prof. and Director

  Center of Excellence in Systems Engineering

  Lean is a term that describes the consequence of Enterprise Design; the tools of lean should not be confused with the process of what an enterprise design should accomplish. Collective System Design is proposed as the process that an enterprise does to design

  implement and sustain its Enterprise Design. Prof. Cochran's practice is the Collective System Design methodology to gain collective agreement to define the enterprise requirements to meet customer needs

  to link how we accomplish those needs through the implementation of Physical Solutions that are proposed to achieve the enterprise requirements. The mission of the IPFW Center of Excellence in Systems Engineering is to practice Collective System Design with its member company's and enterprises.

  Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)

  Purdue University Fort Wayne

  Fort Wayne

  Indiana Area

  The Center of Excellence in Systems Engineering team facilitates a process to guide organizations and systems to work collaboratively to achieve intended outcomes. Our success using

  “Collective System Design” occurs because of strong stakeholder participation that brings people together with a common purpose and intention of meeting the needs of the customer.\n\nBy working across agencies

  departments and functions

  the Systems Engineering Center brings people together to first identify their needs and next

  to identify how they collectively agree to meet those needs. The implementation sequence of Solutions identified to meet customer needs is then developed through the Collective System Design methodology.

  Professor of Systems Engineering; Director

  Center of Excellence in Systems Engineering

  Brookline

  MA

  System Design

  LLC provides certification and consulting services

  system design evaluations

  and custom educational courses and workshops to spark the behaviors necessary to reach and sustain your enterprise goals.

  Managing Partner

  System Design

  LLC