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John W. Sutherland

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1966
Manufacturing Process and OptimizationSustainable Supply Chain ManagementAdvanced machining processes and optimizationRecycling and Waste Management TechniquesEnergy Efficiency and Management

Publications

624

Citations

21,109

Est. group size

~19

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

61

Publishing since 1966

Research summary
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John W. Sutherland works in manufacturing and environmental engineering, focusing on how products and materials can be made, used, and recovered more sustainably. His work covers topics such as remanufacturing (rebuilding used products for reuse), recycling of materials like e-waste and rare-earth magnets, life cycle assessment (evaluating environmental impacts across a product's life), and techno-economic analysis of emerging clean-energy and recycling technologies. Prospective students would likely engage with projects combining manufacturing process optimization, sustainability metrics, and decision-support tools such as machine learning or large language models applied to circular economy problems.

Sustainable and circular manufacturingLife cycle assessment and techno-economic analysisRemanufacturing and recycling of materials (e-waste, magnets, batteries)Manufacturing process optimization and energy efficiencyData-driven and machine-learning methods for sustainability decisions

Publication output was fairly steady at 20-35 papers per year from 2017-2024 but has dropped sharply in 2025-2026, though this may partly reflect lag in indexing very recent work.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 16.2/year recently
2017: 25 publications172018: 23 publications182019: 36 publications36192020: 31 publications202021: 17 publications212022: 22 publications222023: 22 publications232024: 21 publications242025: 7 publications252026: 9 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Procedia CIRP×28
  • Journal of Cleaner Production×16
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling×11
  • Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering×11
  • The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology×10
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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