PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS


Registered Professional Engineer - Minnesota
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering
MS Civil Engineering - Railways
MS Chemistry Education
Industrial Consultant
Strathmore's Who's Who - 1997
Amoco Award - Teaching Excellence - 1974
Veqtor Award of Merit - IIE, LT&D Division: 1995-96
Former Assistant Division Engineer, Rock Island Railroad

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

PAST AND PRESENT OFFICES
I hold International leadership positions in two professional societies as well as membership in numerous other professional organizations.
 

Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

Senior Member and Founding Director of the Logistics, Transportation and Distribution Division (LT&D)

As Director of the LT&D Division: 
I formally integrated the emerging "hot" topic of logistics into IIE. 

Worked with industry leaders from around the world to advance the field. 

Refereed two papers. 

Newsletter Editor of LT&D Division. 

Member of ad hoc Manufacturing Task Force. 

Member of Planning Committee, Track Co-Chairman,  and session host for the 45th and 46th and 47th International Industrial Engineering conferences. 

Co-chairman, Conference Logistics Track, 1994-1996 Conference. 

Faculty advisor to Alfred University Student Chapter. 

IIE liaison-to AREA: 1994-present. 

IIE Team Support leader for the US DOE/Saturn Hybrid Electric Vehicle project at Alfred University.

American Railway Engineering Association (AREA) 

Senior Member, Member Committee 16 - Economics of Plant, Equipment, and Location 

Secretary Committee 16 - Elected 1997 
Chairman of Subcommittee B: Publications and Manual Revisions - 1987-present 
Reviewer - for all paper submissions Committee 16 

Co-author of manual revisions, Committee 16 

Former chair/vice chair of several sub-committees 

Vice Chairman, Economics of Centralized Dispatching. 

Past Vice Chairman, Assignment D-4-87, Economics of Railroad Operations in the Absence of Institutional Constraints. 

Past Chairman, Assignment 3, Economics of Train Speed, resulted in AREA Manual of Standard Practices Publication: "Economics of Train Speed," AREA Bulletin, 1989. 

Liaison to IIE -1995-present 

Also working with applications of industrial engineering to operations.

Other Professional Societies

Senior Memberships:

Society of Logistics Engineers (SOLE) 

Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) 
    Faculty advisor, student chapter, Mankato State University 1994-present 
    Senior Chapter Member 


Transportation Research Board )TRB) 

High Speed Rail Association (HSRA) 

American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) 

INFORMS (formerly Operations Research Society of America - ORSA) 
 
 
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

WORKSHOPS, SHORT COURSES,
AND SEMINARS ATTENDED

Materials Handling Short Course Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 1995
ISO 9000 One-day Seminar South Central Technical College, North Mankato, MN, 1995 
ISO 9000 MET 692 Course, Mankato State University, Winter quarter, 1995  
SAE Railroad presentation General Motors Training Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1995 
Programmable Logic Controller and CIM Short Course Corning, NY, 1991
NSF Manufacturing Quality & Design Faculty Enhancement Program  Lowell, MA, 1991 
NSF Concurrent Engineering & Design For Manufacture Lowell, MA, 1991 
NSF Manufacturing Faculty Enhancement Program,  Dearborn, MI, 1990 
 
MOST (Pre-determined Motion-Time System) seminar,  UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 1989. Received certification
 
 
 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEETNGS

1996-97

1995-96

46th International Industrial Engineering Conference 
Nashville, Tennessee 
ASME Computers in Manufacturing Conference
 
Boston, Massachusetts 
AREA Committee 16 meeting
 
Evanston, Illinois 
Institute of Industrial Engineers Western Regional Technical and Leadership Conference
 
Las Vegas, Nevada

1994-95

45th International Industrial Engineering conference 
Atlanta, Georgia 

SME Computers in Manufacturing Conference 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 

AREA Committee 16 meeting 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1993-94

 
44th International Industrial Engineering Conference 
Los Angeles, California 

Industrial Research Conference 
Los Angeles, California 

IIE Logistics Track Planning for 1994 IIE Conference 
Atlanta, Georgia 

IIE 1994 Conference planning 
Atlanta, Georgia 

AREA Meetings 

SME Meetings

1992-93

 
IIE District Student Conference - Penn State University 
College Park, Pennsylvania 


Rochester Institute of Technology Engineering Society, "Managing Change in the 90's" Seminar 
Rochester, New York 

Business Development Center PLC, 2-day seminar 
Corning, New York  

AREA Committee 16 Meetings (4) 

SME Senior Chapter Meetings (2) 

Society of Logistics Engineers continuing education seminar 
Phoenix, Arizona 

Society of Logistics Engineers international meeting 
Phoenix, Arizona 

TRB Meeting 
Washington, DC 

Manufacturing faculty enhancement program 
Dearborn, Michigan 

IIE Student Chapter Meetings-faculty advisor

1991-92

 
IIE Performance Improvement Conference 
Rochester, New York 

Co-principal investigator, Southern Tier West project 

Co-principal investigator, Delco project 

Meetings with businesses about student internships 

Visits to over 10 local/regional plants

1989-91

 
AREA Committee 16 meetings (2) 

IIE Leadership Conference, New York 

IIE Senior Chapter Meetings (2 Minnesota, 1 New York) 

IIE Student Chapter Meetings (UMD Faculty Advisor-6) 

Meetings with Duluth businesses about student internships 

Proposal Seminar 

Visits to 12+ local/regional plants 

Grants workshop 

AREA Committee 16 meeting 

APICS meetings (2) 

Senior IIE meetings (4) 

Meetings with Duluth businesses about student internships 

Visits to over 10 local/regional plants

1987-88 

 
AREA Committee 16 meetings (two: hosted one - including travel and conference planning) 

APICS Seminar, Dallas, Texas 

Meetings with Duluth businesses about student internships.

Pre-'87

 
Two to three professional society meetings per year 

Developed computerized instruction and simulation programs 

Texas A&M University Committee - Industrial Engineering Enrollment Management Committee, 1983 
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