Marcos Esterman, PhD

Marcos Esterman is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department. His teaching interests are in product and process development, and systems engineering. He teaches in the Multi-Disciplinary Design, the Manufacturing and Management Leadership, and the Masters in Product Development Programs. Marcos is co-director of the Printer Research and Image Systems Modeling (PRISM) Laboratory, which focuses on the modeling of printer and imaging systems to support product architecture and business decisions. His research focuses on structured product development methods, with an emphasis of design for reliability and warranty, design robustness and sustainability. Marcos also holds an appointment as an affiliate assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Idaho – Boise.

Prior to joining the RIT faculty, Marcos worked for Hewlett-Packard’s Imaging and Printing Division in Boise, Idaho.  At HP, he held a variety of positions in manufacturing and R&D while concurrently conducting his PhD research.  His primary product focus was the Color LaserJet products and he supported the development teams that delivered the Color LaserJet 8500 and 9500 printers. His analysis work at HP enhanced design and product architecture decision-making. Marcos also worked as an x-ray tube development engineer at General Electric Medical Systems in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and he was a graduate of their Edison Engineering Training Program.   

In 2002, Marcos was awarded a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.  His dissertation work, under the direction of Dr. Kosuke Ishii, proposed metrics to characterize the risk introduced into the product development process by suppliers of key technologies.  This work was based on a study of the HP/Canon relationship. Marcos earned his BSME in 1988 and MSME in 1990 form the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.