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 SocietiesSenior Memberships: |
Society of Logistics Engineers (SOLE)
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
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) |
| 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
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| MOST (Pre-determined Motion-Time System) seminar, | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 1989. Received certification |
1996-97 |
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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 |