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Professional Experience/Positions Held

• 2022-Current: Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
• 2019-2022: Interim Chair Department of Industrial Engineering, 91ÖÆƬ³§
• 2018-2019: Interim Dean College of Engineering, 91ÖÆƬ³§
• 2015-2016: Associate Dean of Engineering, 91ÖÆƬ³§
• 2013-2015: Interim Dean College of Engineering, 91ÖÆƬ³§
• 2010-2013: Interim Dean of Graduate School, and Associate Dean of Engineering
• 2006-2010: Associate Dean of Engineering, 91ÖÆƬ³§
• 1981-Current: Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, 91ÖÆƬ³§
• 1981-2012: Professor and Chair, Industrial Engineering, 91ÖÆƬ³§.
  • Acting Dean of Engineering: summers 1984 & 1999
  • Director of Engineering Graduate Programs 1981-1986 & 1999-2016
  • Director Center for Ports and Waterways 1995-2015
  • Interim Chair Mechanical Engineering: 1986-1989 & 1996-1999.
• 1978-1981: Professor and Chair, Industrial Engineering Department, North Carolina A & T State University
• 1971-1978: Associate and Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, Auburn University
• 1968-1970: Instructor & Teaching Fellow, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Houston

Teaching Achievements

• Consistently receive course ratings between 8 and 10 on a scale of 1-10 for courses I teach.
• Experience in teaching a wide variety of courses including at the undergraduate level: Engineering Economy, Quality Control, Probability and Statistics, Industrial and Product Safety, and several Operations Research courses. Experience at the graduate level includes: Advanced Engineering Economics, Advanced Scheduling Theory, Statistical Design of Experiments, and others.
• Developed and taught more than ten short courses for industry including: “Statistical Process Quality Control” which was sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). This course was taught to practicing engineers 3 or 4 times a year from 1984 to 1993. It was also taught in-house at Dow Chemical, E.I. DuPont, ExxonMobil, and more than 25 other major corporations.