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Industrial and Systems Engineering Department

Faculty Members

 

Peter Dewhurst, Ph.D

Position: Professor

Degree: Ph.D University of Manchester, England, 1973

Research Interests:

  • Theory of Metal Deformation
  • Design for Efficient Manufacture
  • Design and Manufacture of Minimum-weight Product Structure

Gregory Jones, Ph.D

Position: Adjunct Associate Professor

Degree: Ph.D. (A.M.S) University of Rhode Island, 1998

Research Interests:

  • Autonomous control for underwater vehicles
  • Optimal scheduling with soft constraints

 

Winston A. Knight, Ph.D

Position: Professor, Graduate Program Director

Degree: Ph.D Birmingham University, England 1967

Research Interests:

  • Design for Manufacture
  • Design for Recycling
  • CAD/CAM of Dies and Molds
  • Computer-Aided Process Design
  • Group Technology

 

Valerie Maier-Speredelozzi, Ph.D

Position: Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Program Director

Degree: Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2003

Research Interests:

  • Design of Manufacturing Systems
  • Performance Metrics for Manufacturing Systems
  • Material Handling and Plant Operations
  • Manufacturing for Biomedical Devices and Pharmaceuticals

 

Vincent A. Marseglia, MBA

Position: Instructor

Degree: MBA, Bryant University, 1985

Research Interests:

  • Operations Management
  • Engineering Economics
  • Project Management

 

Philip N. Miller , Ph.D

Position: Adjunct Professor

Degree: Ph. D. University of Rhode Island, 2003

Research Interests:

  • Quality Engineering
  • Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing

 

Manbir S. Sodhi, Ph.D

Position: Professor

Degree: Ph.D. (I.E.) University of Arizona, 1991

Research Interests:

  • De-Manufacturing and Bulk Recycling Modeling
  • Lights-Out Manufacturing
  • Computer Vision Applications for Manufacturing

 

Jyh-Hone Wang, Ph.D

Position: Chairperson / Professor

Degree: Ph. D. University of Iowa, 1988

Research Interests:

  • Design for Quality
  • Quality Assurance
  • Design of Experiements
  • Human Factors

Geoffrey Boothroyd, Ph.D

Position: Professor Emeritus

William D. Lawing, Ph.D

Position: Associate Professor Emeritus

 

David M. Shao, Ph.D

Position: Associate Professor Emeritus

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