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Bruce Ankenman

Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

Contact

2133 Sheridan Road
Ford 3321
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

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Centers

Segal Design Institute

Departments

Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

Affiliations

Master of Engineering Management Program

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Education

Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

M.S. Manufacturing Systems Eng., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Waterloo, WI

B.S. Electical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH


Research Interests

As a design engineer in the automotive parts industry, Bruce Ankenman found that an engineer's job depends on the ability to efficiently collect and analyze data. Since many engineers have limited access to statistical methods, his research has centered around developing simple-to-use, yet statistically powerful tools for the design and analysis of both physical and simulation-based experiments.

In 2016 at the Segal Design Institute, Bruce co-developed a course with Professor Pam Daniels called Designing Your Life for Northwestern. It was inspired by the course of the same name at Stanford. The course is now offered multiple times per year and has drawn high praise from undergraduate students from across all schools at Northwestern.

In 2022, Bruce and Professor Joe Holtgreive co-founded the Northwestern Personal Development StudioLab, which offers classes, a certificate, resources, events and materials to enhance the personal development of undergraduate students at Northwestern.


Selected Publications

  • Erickson, Collin B.; Ankenman, Bruce E.; Plumlee, Matthew; Sanchez, Susan M., Gradient-based criteria for sequential experiment design, Quality and Reliability Engineering International (2021).
  • Erickson, Collin B.; Ankenman, Bruce E.; Plumlee, Matthew; Sanchez, Susan M., Gradient based criteria for sequential design, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.:467-478 (2019).
  • Lane, Jacqueline Ng; Ankenman, Bruce E; Iravani, Seyed MR, Insight into gender differences in higher education, Service Science 10(4):442-456 (2018).
  • Erickson, Collin B.; Ankenman, Bruce E.; Sanchez, Susan M., Data from fitting Gaussian process models to various data sets using eight Gaussian process software packages, Data in Brief 18:684-687 (2018).
  • Duan, Weitao; Ankenman, Bruce E.; Sanchez, Susan M.; Sanchez, Paul J., Sliced Full Factorial-Based Latin Hypercube Designs as a Framework for a Batch Sequential Design Algorithm, Technometrics 59(1):11-22 (2017).
  • Erickson, Collin B.; Ankenman, Bruce E.; Sanchez, Susan M., Comparison of Gaussian process modeling software, European Journal of Operational Research 266(1):179-192 (2017).
  • Erickson, Collin; Ankenman, Bruce E.; Sanchez, Susan M., Comparison of Gaussian process modeling software, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.:3692-3693 (2016).
  • Del Torto, Lisa M.; Ankenman, Bruce; Benjamin, Stacy; Harty, Trevor; Hirsch, Penny L., Exploring interdisciplinary design in relation to workplace success and campus community, ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings 2016-June (2016).