Faculty Profile

Michael Johnson

Lecturer
B.Eng, M.A.Sc., PhD

Burnaby Phone: 778-782-9086
Surrey Phone: 778-782-3919
Burnaby Office: WMC 4385
Surrey Office: SUR 5049

Email Address:

Biography

Michael Johnson is a Lecturer at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. He is passionate about teaching statistics, quantitative methods and operations management courses and is the recipient of the 2011 Canada Trust Excellence in Teaching Award.

Michael spent 10 years teaching in the Operations Management program at BCIT prior to joining the Beedie School of Business. Prior to carrying out his PhD, Michael worked for several years as an engineer improving productivity and operational work flows in high-tech, automotive and process related industries. He has also worked as a consultant on a number of industry and research related projects related to operations research and management science.

Specialization and Research Interests

Operations Management
Operations Research / Management Science
Extended Producer Responsibility
Product Remanufacturing and Recycling

Selected Publications

Google Scholar Citations

McCarthy, I.P., Johnson, M.R. and Gordon, B.R. Knowledge Management in R&D Organizations: A Management Control System Approach. The 44th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Jan 4-7, 2011, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.

Spicer, A.J. and Johnson, M.R. (2004). Third-party Demanufacturing as a Solution for Extended Producer Responsibility. Journal of Cleaner Production, 12(1): 37-45. doi: 10.1016/S0959-6526(02)00182-8.

Johnson, M.R. and Wang, M.H. (2003). Optimizing End-of-Life Economics within the Environmental Constraints of Extended Producer Responsibility. Industrial Society of Industrial Ecology 2003 Conference, June 29, 2003, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Johnson, M.R. and Wang, M.H. (2002). Sustainability and Management of End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs) within the European Union's Directive on ELVs. OIAV / SAE 2002 Environmental Sustainability Conference and Exhibition, April 8, 2002, Graz, Austria.

Johnson, M.R. and Wang, M.H. (2002). Evaluating Policies and Automotive Recovery Options According to the European Union's Directive on End-of-life Vehicles (ELVs). Journal of Automotive Engineering, 216(9): 723-739. doi: 10.1243/09544070260340826

Huang, H.T., Wang, M.H. and Johnson, M.R. (1999). Disassembly Sequence Generation Using A Neural Network Approach. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 19(2): 73-82. doi:10.1016/S0278-6125(00)80001-1

Johnson, M.R. and Wang, M.H. (1998). Economical Evaluation of Disassembly Operations for Recycling, Remanufacturing and ReUse. International Journal of Production Research, 36(12): 3227-3252. doi: 10.1080/002075498192049

Wang, M.H. and Johnson, M.R. (1995). Design for Recyclability and Disassembly of Products. Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications (CERA), 3(2): 131-135. doi: 10.1177/1063293X9500300207

Johnson, M.R., and Wang, M.H. (1995). Product Disassembly Analysis: A Cost-Benefit Tradeoff Approach. International Journal of Environmentally-Conscious Design and Manufacturing, 4(2): 19-28.

Johnson, M.R. and Wang, M.H. (1995). Planning for Product Disassembly for Material Recovery Opportunities. International Journal of Production Research, 33(11): 3119-3142. doi: 10.1080/00207549508904864