EPP Faculty :: Erica R.H. Fuchs

 

Erica R.H. Fuchs

Office: Baker Hall 131E
Phone: (412) 268-1877
Email: erhf@andrew.cmu.edu

Assistant Professor, Engineering and Public Policy

Globalization; international technology and operations management, innovation and industrial policy.

S.B. (Materials Science and Engineering), 1999, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M. (Technology Policy), 2003, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. (Engineering Systems), 2006, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Fuchs's research focuses on the role of government in technology development and the effect of location on the competitiveness of new technologies. In 2008, she received the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Junior Faculty Enhancement Fellowship for her research on the impact of offshoring on technology directions, and in 2011 she received an NSF CAREER award for her research rethinking national innovation systems.  Over the past two years, she has been playing a growing role in national meetings on the future of U.S. advanced manufacturing.  She also currently serves on the National Research Council committee on future trends and challenges in optical science.  Before coming to CMU, Dr. Fuchs completed her Ph.D. in Engineering Systems at M.I.T. in June 2006.  She also received her Masters and her Bachelors degrees from M.I.T. in Technology Policy (2003) and Materials Science and Engineering (1999), respectively.  Prior to graduate school, Dr. Fuchs spent 1999-2000 as a fellow at the United Nations in Beijing, China.  There, she conducted research at state-owned industrial boiler manufacturers on policies to encourage innovation.  Her work has been published among other places in High Temperature Materials and Processes, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Composite Science and Technology, International Journal of Production Economics, Issues in Science and Technology, Research Policy, and Management Science. Dr. Fuchs has been an invited speaker at a wide range of venues including the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Representative Publications

Published Papers

  1. Woolley, A. and Fuchs, E. 2011.  Collective Intelligence in the Organization of Science, Invited Paper. Special Issue on New Directions in Organization Science. Organization Science.  22(5): 1359-1367.

  2. Fuchs, E., Kirchain, R., and Liu, S. 2011. The Future of Silicon Photonics – Not So Fast?: The Case of 100G Ethernet LAN Transceivers. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 29(15): 2319-2326.

  3. Fuchs, E., Field, F., Roth, R., and Kirchain, R. 2011. Plastic Cars in China? The Signifiance of Production Location over Markets for Technology Competitiveness.  International Journal of Production Economics. 132(2011): 79-92.

  4. Fuchs, E., and Kirchain, R. 2010. Design for Location?: The Impact of Manufacturing Off-Shore on Technology Competitiveness in the Optoelectronics Industry. Management Science, 56(12): 2323-2349.

  5. Fuchs, E.2010. Rethinking the Role of the State in Technology Development: DARPA and the Case for Embedded Network Governance, Research Policy, 39(2010): 1133-1147. Lead article.

  6. Fuchs, E.  2009. Cloning DARPA Successfully. Issues in Science and Technology. Volume XXVI. Number 1. Fall 2009.

  7. Fuchs, E., Field, F., Roth, R., and Kirchain, R. 2008. Strategic Materials Selection in the Automotive Body: Economic Opportunities for Polymer Composite Design. Composite Science and Technology. 68(9): 1989-2002.

  8. Fuchs, E., Bruce, E., Ram, R., and Kirchain, R. 2006. Process-Based Cost Modeling of Photonics Manufacture: The Cost-Competitiveness of Monolithic Integration of a 1550nm DFB Laser and an Electro-Absorptive Modulator on an InP Platform.Journal of Lightwave Technology. 24(8): 3175-3186.

  9. Veloso, Francisco and Fuchs, E. 2002. The Future of the Asian Auto Industry: Regional Integration, Alternative Designs, and Chinese Leadership. International Journal of Vehicle Design. 35(1): 111-136.

  10. Fuchs, E.and Johnsson, P. 2000. Inclusion Characteristics in Bearing Steel and During Ingot Casting. High Temperature Materials and Processes. 19(5): 333-344

Book Chapters

  1. Argote, L. Dennome, C. and Fuchs, E. 2011. Organization Learning across Boundaries: The Effect of Geographic Distribution on Organizational Learning and Knowledge Transfer. Handbook on Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management. Wiley-Blackwell. Forthcoming.

  2. Fuchs, E. 2011. DARPA Does Moore’s Law: The Case of DARPA and Optoelectronic Interconnects. Invited chapter in State of Innovation: The U.S. Government’s Role in Technology Development. Ed. by Fred Block and William Keller. Paradigm Publishers.

  3. Fuchs, E.  2009. Remembering Comparative Advantage: Leveraging National Differences in Technology Competitiveness. Invited Contribution. Report by CMU and the Atlantic Council to the G-20 Leaders.  Forthcoming as a chapter in a book by the same name with C.M.U. Press.

Biography (pdf) | Curriculum Vitae (pdf)


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