GOALS and EXPERIENCE

GOALS

I strive to grow professionally, in teaching, service, research, and consulting. Using my experience and education in these areas, combined with management and teaching skills, I ultimately hope to help local and U.S. industries and students reach their full world-class potentials. We have an abundance of three major competitive assets which, if used to greatest advantage, will restore our manufacturing base: a creative educated workforce, natural resources, and large land areas. Logistics, Transportation and Distribution, must thus become as much a part of manufacturing and industrial engineering as manufacturing processes and workstation design. My education, experience, and interests strongly qualify me to contribute in any one or integration of all of these manufacturing, industrial and management areas.

I seek to strengthen the role of the industrial engineer and of U.S. manufacturing and business in our global economy. As Founding Director of the Institute of Industrial Engineers' (IIE) international Logistics, Transportation, and Distribution (LT&D) Division, I have made progress toward realizing these goals by spearheading the successful addition and integration of logistics into the group (reflecting its growing scope and importance to industrial profitability and viability) and by authoring the IIE's first new definition and scope of logistics for industrial engineers. My service to the 1994-1996 planning committees for their respective IIE International Conferences, Co-chairing the logistics tracks, and my successful attainment of division status for the LT&D interest group support the growth of industrial and manufacturing engineering, and logistics and transportation management.

DEGREES

Degree	University/ Graduation Date	Dissertation/Thesis
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering	Texas A&M University 1985	Dissertation: A Systems Evaluation of High Speed Rail for the Texas Triangle, one of the first uses of simulation, economic and other industrial engineering techniques to determine the feasibility of operating high speed trains on existing rights-of-way for the Texas Triangle Published.
M.S. Civil Engineering	University of Illinois, 1975 (Railroads)	Thesis: Lateral Stability of Ballast: Published.
M.A. Chemistry Education	Bemidji State University, 1973.
B.A. Physics, minors math and chemistry	Bemidji State University, 1965.

TEACHING & RESEARCH

Position	Department/Area	Location
Associate Professor, Industrial Liaison, ABET Coordinator	Manufacturing Engineering Technology	Mankato State University, 1994 to present.
Assistant Professor, Industrial Liaison, ABET Coordinator	Manufacturing Engineering Technology	Mankato State University, 1994 to present.
Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator for major industrial research projects, industrial consultant	Industrial Engineering	Alfred University, 1989-1994
Assistant Professor, ABET Coordinator, initial ABET accreditation; forged initial industrial contacts	Industrial Engineering	University of Minnesota - Duluth, 1987-1989
Visiting Assistant Professor/and Lecturer	Industrial and Civil Engineering;	Texas A&M University, 1980-1987,
Engineering Research Associate, Performed funded research in transportation, safety, and systems analysis	Texas Transportation Institute	Texas A&M University, 1979-1987
Research Assistant, Designed and operated laboratory ballast test facility	Railroad Civil Engineering	University of Illinois, Urbana, 1974-1975
High School Teacher	Sciences/math/chemistry	Mountain Home H.S., ID, Pocatello H.S., ID, Tuttle H.S., ND, 1967-1974
Graduate Assistant-Teaching	Physics	Idaho State University, Pocatello, 1966-1967

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

Position and Company	Description of Duties
Assistant Division Engineer Rock Island Railroad, Des Moines, IA. 1977-79	Under Division Engineer, supervised 212 workers and 2000 miles of track in five states with an annual budget of approximately $10 million. Duties included supervision of two manufacturing facilities (track panel and welded rail), helping supervise construction of $3 million automobile unloading facility, environmental engineering, safety and accident analysis, and industrial engineering and logistics work with shippers and marketing, in addition to civil and transportation engineering duties.
Special Projects Industrial Engineer and Surveyor Rock Island Railroad, Des Moines, IA. 1976-77	Duties included logistics and economic studies, development of standards, and design of a new repair shop
Special Projects Engineer and Trainmaster Trainee Norfolk & Western Railway, Roanoke, VA. 1975-76	Duties included logistics and operations studies, design of ground storage facilities for coal
Assistant Supervisor - Loss and Damage Prevention Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha, NE. 1971	Duties included accident investigation, and logistics work with shippers
Acoustics Technician Trane Co., LaCrosse, WI. 1965-66	Duties included construction, analysis, and inspection of laboratory test equipment
Co-op Engineer Buick Motor Division, Flint, MI. 1962-64	Duties included quality control, plant layout, other varied industrial engineering assignments

CONSULTING

Position	Company/ Date	Duties
Consulting Engineer	V-Tek, Inc., Mankato, MN 1994-96-present	Shop scheduling
Consulting Engineer	Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, NY, 1994	Contract research, vibratory stress relief,
Review Engineer	Morrison-Knudsen, Hornell, NY:	Responsible for reviewing and editing a series of over 100 repair manuals for safety, human factors, clarity, and accuracy, 1992-1993
Co-Principal Investigator	Morrison-Knudsen, Hornell, NY, 1992	Car Welding/Line Design and Simulation
Supervisor	Alfred University, Alfred, NY	Student interns/graduate students (30+ companies), 1987-1996
Co-Principal Investigator	Solid Waste Reduction (17 upstate NY companies)	Southern Tier Contract, 1989-1990
Principal Investigator	Delco, Rochester, NY	Delco Research Contract, 1990
Program Director	Delco, Rochester, NY	Delco Research Contract, 1991
Consultant	Various	Railroad Accident, 1988-present.
Consultant	Texas Railroad Co.	Ridership, track, design, 1985-86

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