Panel Sessions
Women in Industry and Academia Panel
4:00 – 5:45 pm (Monday), April 5, 2021
Panel Chair
Dr. Isotilia Costa Melo
Department of Production Engineering
São Carlos Engineering School (EESC)
University of São Paulo (USP)
São Carlos (SP) – Brazil
Dr. – Ing. Isotilia Costa Melo holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at the University of São Paulo (USP). Her thesis’ title was “E-Commerce: Compared efficiency of major retailers in Brazil and Canada”, it proposed a tool for performance measure of e-commerce operations (focused on inventory). She is a mentor of the implementations of final projects in MBA in Project Management (USP) and she is also a candidate for the MBA of Digital Business (USP). She holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering (USP), focused measuring on the performance of agricultural supply chains. She holds a Specialization in Welding Engineering (Mauá) and a BSc in Mechanical Engineer and 5-years of experience in the Automotive Industry. Currently, her research interests are E-commerce, Omni-Channel for Retailing and Banking, Valuation, and Digital Transformation. She primarily relies on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Optimal Control Theory (OCT), econometrics, and deep learning techniques to conduct her researches.
ID 270 Women in Postgraduate Programs of Engineering and Natural Sciences: A Case Study in Brazil
Isotilia Costa Melo, Érica Gonçalves Rezende and Daisy Aparecida do Nascimento Rebelatto, Department of Production Engineering, São Carlos Engineering School (EESC)/University of São Paulo (USP), Avenida Trabalhador Sancarlense, 400 – 13566-590 – São Carlos (SP) – Brazil
Panel Speaker I
Jannatun Naher, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Dr. Jannatun Naher is working as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Computer Systems Technology Department of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University (NC A&T). She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from NC A&T. Her dissertation title was “An Automated design space exploration tool for OpenCL-based implementations on FPGAs using machine learning”. In her Ph.D. dissertation, she developed a design space exploration model using a machine learning approach. She holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University, USA. She received a BS degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering &Technology, Bangladesh. After finishing her bachelor’s, she worked in a renowned ISP company in Bangladesh and worked as a Lecturer in AIICT, Bangladesh. Her specialization is on hardware design on FPGAs and machine learning. Her research aims on accelerating data-driven applications like cybersecurity and bioinformatics.
Panel Speaker II
Dr. Noha Mostafa
Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering
The British University in Egypt
El Sherouk, Cairo, Egypt
Panel Speaker III
Karla Gonzalez
Quality Engineer
Greene Tweed
Houston, Texas, USA
Panel Speaker IV
Lean Six Sigma Panel
7:00 – 8:30 pm (Monday), April 5, 2021
Panel Chair
Dr. Joseph M. Ogundu
President/CEO
Emerald Global Consulting Inc.
West Bloomfield, Michigan
Dr. Joseph M. Ogundu is the president /CEO of Emerald Global Consulting Inc., a Farmington Hills, Michigan based consulting firm. Dr. Ogundu has extensive experience in academia, leadership, project management, business process excellence, lean transformation, six-sigma, supply chain management and supplier quality, change management, operations, industrial engineering, manufacturing and process engineering, quality engineering and quality assurance. Dr. Ogundu is a lean practitioner and six-sigma practitioner that sees lean six-sigma as operations management philosophy that is based on the relationship between waste reduction and elimination, quality improvement and operations performance measures.
Dr. Ogundu was Adjunct professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering at both Lawrence Technological University, Southfield Michigan and Oakland University, Rochester Michigan, as well Adjunct Professor: Business Administration, Kettering University, Flint Michigan. He thought courses in both undergraduate and graduate levels and the courses were Lean Systems Application, Quality Assurance and Control, Total Quality Management, Operations Research and Stochastic Processes, Manufacturing Processes, Advanced Quality Planning, Supplier Quality, Business Statistics, Lean Six-Sigma, Production Planning and Control, Materials and Inventory Management and Operations Management, Dr. Ogundu worked in the following industries, Automotive, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Consulting, Energy and Health Care. Dr. Ogundu is the author of the book “The Relationship between Types of Waste and Operating Performance Measures.
Dr. Ogundu graduated with a Doctorate Degree in engineering and manufacturing systems, Masters in business administration from Lawrence Technological University, Master’s Degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Wayne State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from University of Tennessee. Knoxville, Tennessee. Dr. Ogundu spent the earlier years of his career in engineering, leader and senior management positions as director and executive director at Country Coach Inc, process engineering manager at DaimlerChrysler AG, Senior Operations leader at Chrysler Corporation, facilities engineer and project manager at Ford Motor Company and Senior Product Engineer at General Motors Corporation. Dr. Ogundu has served as board member of Lawrence Tech University College of Management Alumni Association, Finer Cabinetry & Woodwork Inc., Citation Plastics, LLC., River State Foundation Inc., as well as Board member of Health Care Management department at South University Novi, Michigan Campus. Also, he served as Vice President of Chapter Development Institute of Industrial Engineers SE Michigan/Toledo Chapter from 1991 to 1992.
Panel Speaker I
Prof. Dr- Ing. Carlos Hernandez
Instituto de Ingeniería Industrial
Universidad Austral de Chile
Assembling techniques for micro components with high dimensional variability
Dr.-Ing. Carlos Hernández is an industrial engineer and professor in the Institute of Industrial Engineering at Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile. He earned Licentiate Degree in Engineering from Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile, Master of Sciences in Computational Engineering and Doctor of Engineering from Technische Universität Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany.
Before joining the academia, he developed an international professional career working for large companies (e.g. PriceWaterhouseCoopers, BHP Billiton, and Merck Sharp & Dohme). Through the years he has worked as technology risk and operational excellence consultant for financial institutions as well as projects manager leading multinational technology infrastructure projects. He has also led multinational operational change projects with lean six sigma to improve financial process.
Later, he joined the Institut für Produktionsmesstechnick at TU Braunschweig, Germany and for several years he worked in the development of novel assembling techniques for micro components. He has taught lectures in Discrete Event Simulation, Supply Chain Management, Engineering Economics, Corporate Finances, Financial Engineering, Business Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning for engineering students. He is the author of several engineering articles and has participated in multiple conferences worldwide. His research interests include assembling process techniques, manufacturing process simulation, urban traffic and transportation systems simulation, supply chain design and management, machine learning for finances.
Panel Speaker II
Nikhil Pal
Assistant Lean Six Sigma Manager
Jabil
Singapore
Nikhil Pal is a ASQ certified Six Sigma Black Belt Lean coach with over 11 years of experience in Electronics Manufacturing, Medical Devices and Semi-Conductor manufacturing along with Additive Manufacturing. He has mainly focused on driving the Lean Six Sigma culture and Industrial Engineering techniques and tools to drive next level of efficiency in the process.
Nikhil has notably improved the labor utilization standards, innovative manufacturing methods, and Value Stream transformation over the past 10 years. Apart from this Nikhil also holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and MBA degree in Manufacturing Management.
Apart from Lean Six sigma he is also driving Industry 4.0 efforts in the current organization where he has introduced a smart glass picking setup using Real ware Augmented Reality Glasses for the warehouse environment in the past. This experiment turned out to save the picking time by sixty percent. And extension of this technology to the Additive Manufacturing process helped to reduce training time by fifty percent.
Achievements are not limited to this only, and there are some outstanding ideas he had introduced in the past. Upon implementation, they turned out to be of great benefit. For example, he has designed an automated assembly line for medical devices in the past.
These are just a few achievements, but he has noticeably proved himself by coming up with the best innovative solutions when we talk about new ideas.
He is currently working as Plant Lean Six Sigma Manager for the Jabil Inc. in Singapore.
Panel Speaker III
Dr. Elizabeth Cudney
Associate Professor of Business Data Analytics
John E. Simon School of Business
Maryville University
St Louis, Missouri, United States
Dr. Elizabeth Cudney is an Associate Professor of Business Data Analytics in the John E. Simon School of Business at Maryville University. She received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University, Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and MBA from the University of Hartford, and doctorate in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri – Rolla. She received the 2020 Walter E. Masing Book Prize from the International Academy for Quality for her book on Lean Six Sigma. In 2018, Dr. Cudney received the ASQ Crosby Medal for her book on Design for Six Sigma. Dr. Cudney received the 2018 IISE Fellow Award. She also received the 2017 Yoshio Kondo Academic Research Prize from the International Academy for Quality for sustained performance in exceptional published works. In 2014, Dr. Cudney was elected as an ASEM Fellow. In 2013, Dr. Cudney was elected as an ASQ Fellow. In 2010, Dr. Cudney was inducted into the International Academy for Quality. She received the 2008 ASQ A.V. Feigenbaum Medal and the 2006 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineering Award. She has published nine books and over 95 journal papers. Dr. Cudney is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. She holds eight ASQ certifications, which include ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Manager of Quality/Operational Excellence, and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, amongst others.
Panel Speaker IV
Felix Veroya, PIE, AAE, MBB, CSM, DHum
Founder & CEO
Ask Lex PH Academy
Batangas, Philippines
Felix has a total of ten (10) years working experience in helping individuals and organizations to build and utilize competencies in Continuous Improvement, Innovation and Analytics across the fields of Academics, Logistics, Supply/Chain, Manufacturing, Training and Consulting for SMEs up to multinational corporations. He has proven skills relating to business administration, people management, research, statistical analysis, workshop facilitation and consulting. He was able to complete and coach projects utilizing proven tools and methodologies such as DMAIC (Six Sigma), SCORE (Lean), Design Thinking (Innovation) and self-initiated improvement frameworks on OEE/Capacity Improvement, Preventive Maintenance Time Reduction, Mistake Proofing, Quick Engineering Solutions, Idea Management, etc. He also published an international book entitled Introduction to Statistical Process Control: A Problem-Solving Process Approach (ISBN: 978-87-403-1849-4) and Best Practices in Managing Virtual Teams under Bookboon Ltd. Under a Denmark based e-book publisher and an Amazon published book entitled Creativity Tools: Develop Creative Solutions to Problems and Opportunities (ISBN: 978-621-8114-38-8). He is a Professional Industrial Engineer, an Associate ASEAN Engineer, a Certified Lean/Kaizen Facilitator, a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, a Certified Design Sprint Master and a Chartered Business Advisor. Felix also leads international initiatives to the Philippines as Chairman of the International Association of Innovation Professionals (IAOIP) and National President / Country Manager for Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME). He has been elected as a Board Director of the Lean (Operational Excellence) Division of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE). During the Pandemic, he founded an online community for Filipino Industrial Engineers called PINOY IEs to help the community to have a platform to communicate and collaborate things about the profession. With all the initiatives he designed and deployed to the Industrial Engineering community here in the Philippines, he has been conferred with an Honorary Doctoral Degree (Honoris Causa) by the Asian Seminary Leadership and University of Oklahoma. Felix has published studies in Lean Six Sigma and OEE integration and other Lean Six Sigma related content in leading online communities like isixsigma.com. Recently, he won the Asia CEO Awards 2020 Young Leader of the Year and Entrepreneur of the Year Circle of Excellence Awards and this Q1 was awarded Outstanding Eduprenuer of the Year by the World Education Leaders Summit and Awards and ASEAN Start Up Award Founder of the Year Finalist for the Philippines. He is now the Founder & CEO of Ask Lex PH Academy, a Philippine based, valued adding training and consulting firm specializing in Continuous Improvement, Innovation, Analytics and Industrial Engineering.
Panel Speaker V
Dr. Jorge Kurita
Professor and Research Director
Universidad Nacional de Asuncion
Paraguay
Dr. Jorge Kurita attended Universidad Nacional de Asuncion in Paraguay, where he got his BS in Electromechanical Engineering. After graduation, he spent some time in academia working as faculty. During this tenure, he taught courses on heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and physics. In 2004 Dr. Kurita was granted the Fulbright scholarship to attend a graduate program on Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University. He has finished his MS and then continued with a doctorate program. NASA and the NSF funded his doctorate research. Dr. Kurita’s contribution to his field was well-published in several papers from high-impact journals. From 2011 Dr. Kurita worked as a development engineer II in the competitive automotive industry, Filtran LLC, located in Des Plaines, Illinois. As an experimental researcher, his experience helped Filtran develop special testing techniques never implemented before on filtration systems. In addition, Dr. Kurita worked in the CAE group, contributing to developing simulation techniques to help build state-of-the-art filtration systems. Dr. Kurita participated in developing OEM filters; some of them obtained awards from Jatco and GM. From 2016 Dr. Kurita is back to his alma mater as an assistant professor in Universidad Nacional de Asuncion. Later the same year, he is appointed to lead the research department of the School of Engineering. In 2017 he was appointed to be the Mechanical Engineering Department head at Universidad Nacional de Asuncion. In August of the same year, Dr. Kurita is awarded the “Distinguished Citizen by the City Council of Asunción” for his contributions to education in Paraguay’s space sector. And in December of the same year, he was mentioned as “Outstanding Protagonist of 2017” by the newspaper Ultima Hora.
Panel Speaker VI
Michael Parent, MBA
Managing Director at Right Brain Consulting
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at AAA
Canton, Michigan, United States
Project Management Panel
5:00 – 6:30 pm (Tuesday), April 6, 2021
Panel Chair
Dr. Carlos Gualdrón
Project Management Specialist & Professor
Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
Colombia
Panel Speaker I
Dr. Darjat Sudrajat, CSCA, CSCM
Head of Business Management Program &
Sr. Lecturer
BINUS Business School
Jakarta, Indonesia
Project Logistics Factors: Evidence from Indonesia
Dr. Darjat Sudrajat, CSCA, CSCM is Head of Business Management Program, BINUS Business School Undergraduate Program, Bina Nusantara University (BINUS), Jakarta, Indonesia. His education background comprises Production Management (Bachelor), Business Administration Technology (Master), and Management-Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Doctoral). He has published his research in international journals and proceedings (SCOPUS-Index). His research interests include service management, logistics & supply chain management, and strategic management. He earned international certification in supply chain management (CSCA & CSCM) from ISCEA-USA. Before joining BINUS University as full-time Faculty Member, He once worked for logistics service and manufacturing companies with various managerial positions for 20 years.
Panel Speaker II
Jonas Vieira
Founder
FALA Education
Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil
Panel Speaker III
Fábio Caversan
Digital Business and Innovation Vice President
Stefanini US
Southfield, Michigan, United States
Fábio Caversan is a Digital Business and Innovation Vice President of Stefanini US. Fabio has been working with AI since 2003, fundamentally changing the way people interact with systems. He was the co-founder of WOOPI, an innovative cognitive technology company that was later acquired by Stefanini, where he currently serves as Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Director. During his time at WOOPI, he started the creation of Sophie, an omni-channel virtual assistant and AI solution for collaborative digital transformation. Sophie achieves the same results as other AI technologies with five percent of the training required from other tech tools. Fabio also led the vision of implementing Innovation Centers at Stefanini Group based on his desire to co-create solutions with clients. Innovation Centers serve as a technology hub, displaying the many ways that AI, VR, AR and other technologies can be implemented across industries. Earlier in his career, Fabio also served as a Computer Engineering Professor at Sorocaba Engineering School (FACENS) in Brazil for more than 14 years. He earned his masters degree in AI at Escola Politecnica da USP-SP (Sao Paulo University).
Panel Speaker IV
John Miller
Director of Continuous Improvement
Auraria Higher Education Center
Lean Six Sigma Consultant and Instructor
Denver, Colorado, United States
John Miller has 30 years of domestic and international business experience in manufacturing operations, quality systems, project management, and process improvement. He has held supporting roles in marketing, sales, information systems, human resources, and facilities management. From consumer electronics, automotive, healthcare, and computer industries, he combines technical and financial literacy with strategic thinking and is known as a thorough Lean Six Sigma practitioner.
Mr. Miller has an MBA, focused on international business and quality, and a Master of Science in Information Systems, both from Lawrence Technological University (LTU) in Southfield, MI. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt certified to the standards and methods of the General Electric Company from the Lasater Institute. As adjunct faculty he taught Quality Control Techniques at LTU’s College of Management, Graduate Business Programs. In addition to the duties of Continuous Improvement Director for the Auraria Higher Education Center, Denver, CO., he currently teaches, as associate faculty, Lean Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, Advanced Manufacturing Sciences Institute.
Global Engineering Education Panel
7:00 – 8:30 pm (Tuesday), April 6, 2021
Panel Chair
Ricardo Alexandre Diogo
Professor Adjunto
PUCPR – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Ricardo Alexandre Diogo holds a BSc in Mechatronics Engineering (PUCPR), Master in Industrial & Systems Engineering (PUCPR), and now is a PhD candidate in Knowledge Engineering & Management (UFSC). At PUCPR, Ricardo is conducting a very challenge project for Engineering Education in Brazil with the support of The Fulbright Commission in Brazil, the Brazilian Ministry of Education, through CAPES, Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education, the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, and the National Council of Education. The project is called Modernization of Undergraduate Education Program (PMG). At PUCPR he was the Mechatronics Engineering head for eight years (2012-2019). Now he teaches in the Polytechnic School for the following undergraduate programs: Mechatronics Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. He teaches some courses in Industry 4.0 Engineering and Management graduate program too. Nowadays, he is the past-president and current director of International Society of Automation – Curitiba Section, Board Member of the Specialized Chamber in Electrical Engineering of the Regional Council of Engineering and Agronomy of Parana, and Leader in the Workforce Workgroup from Brazilian Society for Industrial Internet (ABII). His topics of interest in research are: Engineering Education, Digital Transformation (Industry 4.0), Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management.
Panel Speaker I
Dr. Lorena Bearzotti
Profesor Auxiliar
Escuela de Transporte
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Valparaíso, Chile
Panel Speaker II
Keshav Nandurkar, PhD
Professor & Principal
K.K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education & Research
Nashik, India
Member of Academic Council of Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
Keshav Nandurkar is Professor and Principal of K.K.Wagh Institute of Engineering Education & Research, Nashik, India. He is also Chairman, Board of Studies (Production & Industrial Engineering) at Savitribai Phule Pune University, India. He earned his B.E. in Production Engineering from Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur, Masters in Production Engineering with specialization in Industrial Engineering and Management from V. J. Technical Institute, Mumbai and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. Dr. Keshav started his career as lecturer in Production Engineering at K. K. Wagh College of Engineering Nashik in 1988 and was promoted as Head of Department (2000) and later on as Principal of the institute (2004). He is also member of Board of Directors of K.K. Wagh Education Society which runs several schools and colleges in the state of Maharashtra. He received “Engineering Achievement” award from The Institution of Engineers (India) Nashik Local Chapter, award of “Excellence in Institutional Leadership” during the State Annual Convention of Indian Society for Technical Education (Maharashtra-Goa Section). He also received “Best Principal of the year” award from Computer Society of India, Mumbai Chapter. He has published two book chapters, 32 journal papers and 82 conference papers. His research interests include manufacturing systems modelling, simulation and optimization, facilities planning, Quality Management and IoT based manufacturing. He has successfully advised five doctoral students and ten Masters students. Dr. Keshav has successfully arranged two international conferences in the field of Manufacturing Excellence. He was also Convener of the National Conference on “Exploring new dimensions in Teaching-Learning for quality education” organized in India. He has delivered over 50 invited talks in various events. Dr. Keshav has visited 8 countries for professional events. He is a member of IE(I), ISTE, ORSI, IIPE, IIIE and CSI.
Panel Speaker III
Dr Esther Matemba
Engineering Education Advisor- Lassonde Educational Innovation Studio (LEIS)
Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Canada
Governing Board Member for Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN) – Africa representative
Sessional Academic, Curtin University, Western Australia
Esther Matemba is an engineering lecturer and an active engineering education researcher. She is currently working as an Engineering Education Advisor for Lassonde Educational Innovation Studio (LEIS) at York University. Her previous Engineering Education research experience include a Research Assistant role at Curtin University (2015), and a Research Associate role at the University of Western Australia (Feb 2019 – Aug 2019). Esther is a Governing Board Member of Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN) representing Africa region. She has a PhD in Engineering Education from the Department of Civil Engineering at Curtin University, Australia. Her PhD titled ‘Globalisation of engineers: African Professional Engineering Education Perspective’, focused on issues of developing curriculum for globalisation with a particular interest on Africa. Esther also holds a Masters of Science in Construction Management (2009), and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (2007) from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where she also lectured for five years. She is a co-founder of a project called ‘Collaboration and Method Sharing for engineering educators’, founded in 2015, with the purpose of sharing student centred methods to engineering educators in Africa. Esther’s research interests include curriculum for global engineers in the Global South, engineering competencies, international accreditation and African engineering education, and her work appears in different international conferences and journals.
Panel Speaker IV
Professor Donald M. Reimer
Director of Membership and Chapter Development – IEOM Society
President, The Small Business Strategy Group, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Adjunct Faculty – A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical, Robotics and Industrial Engineering
Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, USA
Donald M. Reimer is an adjunct faculty at the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering in College of Engineering at Lawrence Tech in Southfield, Michigan. He coordinates the Certificate of Entrepreneurial Engineering Skills. Mr. Reimer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Lawrence Technological University and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from University of Detroit/Mercy. He is a Certified Management Consultant with over 35 years of experience in working with closely-held businesses. He has taught courses in entrepreneurship, strategic management, corporate entrepreneurship and innovation for engineers. Mr. Reimer is a member of the Lawrence Tech Kern Campus Committee, Coordinator of the Lawrence Tech Innovation Encounter. He is faculty Advisor of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Mr. Reimer serves as a Kern Fellow of The Kern Family Foundation, Co-Direct of the Coleman Fellows Program, member of the National Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization Faculty Advisory Council and is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education. He has operated his own consulting company – The Small Business Strategy Group for 23 years. He published numerous articles on small business, entrepreneurship and strategic thinking. He has received several awards and recognition by local, state and federal agencies for his work in entrepreneurship and minority business development. Mr. Reimer served as member of the Minority Economic Development Committee of New Detroit. Mr. Reimer is member of the Small Business Advisory Council of the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Reimer is a member of Advisory Board of the Milwaukee Junction Small Business Assistance Center. He is also a member of the Applied Innovation Alliance. Mr. Reimer serves as a KEEN Fellow for The Kern Family Foundation and is a member of United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Panel Speaker V
Supply Chain and Logistics Panel
7:00 – 8:30 pm (Wednesday), April 7, 2021
Panel Chair
Dr. Guilherme Frederico
Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management
School of Management
Federal University of Paraná – UFPR
Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Guilherme F. Frederico is a Professor of Operations, Supply Chain and Project Management at Federal University of Paraná – UFPR – School of Management, Curitiba, Brazil. He is also Professor and Researcher at Information Management MSc and PhD programs and Master Program in Business Administration in this same university. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Federal University of São Carlos – UFSCar. His B.Eng (Civil Engineering) and MSc in Industrial Engineering were obtained from São Paulo State University – UNESP. Prof. Frederico has been working in collaboration with the Centre for Supply Chain Improvement at University of Derby – UK as a Visiting Professor and affiliated Researcher. His research interests and expertise in Supply Chain Management are related to Maturity Management, Performance Measurement, Project Management, Knowledge Management, Strategic Sourcing and Impacts from Industry 4.0. He has published his research outcomes in international journals such as Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Benchmarking: an International Journal, International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management and International Journal of Business Excellence. Prof. Frederico is an Area Editor of Operations Management Research – Springer Journal. He has also been leading some special issues on reputed journals as managing guest editor as well as serving as an expert reviewer. Prof. Frederico has also contributed to supply chain magazines (e.g., Supply Chain Management Review, Logistics Management, Modern Handling Materials, Performance Magazine and Celerity Logistics) publishing articles with practical insights. Previously the academic career he worked in strategic positions for more than 10 years on SCM field in Global and Large Companies (e.g., Bunge, Deere & Company) involving different segments of Industry, including manufacturing and services operations..
Panel Speaker I
Prof. Dr- Ing. Carlos Hernandez
Instituto de Ingeniería Industrial
Universidad Austral de Chile
“Applying Supply Chains Simulation Models for Designing and Improving Blood Bank Distribution Networks”
Dr.-Ing. Carlos Hernández is an industrial engineer and professor in the Institute of Industrial Engineering at Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile. He earned Licentiate Degree in Engineering from Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile, Master of Sciences in Computational Engineering and Doctor of Engineering from Technische Universität Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany.
Before joining the academia, he developed an international professional career working for large companies (e.g. PriceWaterhouseCoopers, BHP Billiton, and Merck Sharp & Dohme). Through the years he has worked as technology risk and operational excellence consultant for financial institutions as well as projects manager leading multinational technology infrastructure projects. He has also led multinational operational change projects with lean six sigma to improve financial process.
Later, he joined the Institut für Produktionsmesstechnick at TU Braunschweig, Germany and for several years he worked in the development of novel assembling techniques for micro components. He has taught lectures in Discrete Event Simulation, Supply Chain Management, Engineering Economics, Corporate Finances, Financial Engineering, Business Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning for engineering students. He is the author of several engineering articles and has participated in multiple conferences worldwide. His research interests include assembling process techniques, manufacturing process simulation, urban traffic and transportation systems simulation, supply chain design and management, machine learning for finances.
Panel Speaker II
Dr. Simon Peter Nadeem
Lecture
College of Business, Law and Social Sciences
Centre for Supply Chain Improvement
University of Derby, U.K.
Dr. Simon Peter Nadeem is a Lecturer in the College of Business, Law and Social Sciences, and is associated with the Centre for Supply Chain Improvement at the University of Derby, U.K. Simon has published in high ranking peer-reviewed scientific journals such as the International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), Production Planning and Control (PPC), Resource Conservation and Recycling (RCR), and Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE), to name a few. He has presented and published in International Conferences such as POMS, APMS, INCOM, IEOM and has contributed chapters and case studies in academic books. Simon’s research focus and expertise are in the areas of Circular Economy, Lean, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Sustainability, and Innovation.
Panel Speaker III
Dr. Ednilson Bernardes
Professor, Supply Chain Management
Program Coordinator, Global Supply Chain Management
John Chambers College of Business & Economics
West Virginia University (WVU)
Morgantown, West Virginia
Dr. Ednilson Bernardes is a Professor of supply chain management and a program coordinator at West Virginia University (WVU). He founded the Global Supply Chain Management Program at WVU. Before academia, he worked in military transport aviation and the innovative aerospace industry. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota and a Master’s Science degree in Operations, Innovation, and Technology Management. His main research interest includes supply network innovation, competitive dynamics, and digital transformation. His research appears in the top empirical journals publishing studies in his field, including Strategic Management Journal, Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of Supply chain Management, and Journal of Business Logistics, among many others. Besides research, he has co-authored various books, including Digital Supply Networks: Transform your Supply and Gain competitive advantage with Disruptive Technology and Reimagined Processes. He has interacted with and led or facilitated innovation and performance improvement initiatives in large organizations including quality, logistics, and process flow issues. These organizations include Toyota, West Virginia University Hospitals, and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Panel Speaker IV
Dr. Paulo Nocera Alves Junior
Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ)
University of São Paulo (USP)
Piracicaba, SP, 13418-900, Brazil
Paulo Nocera Alves Junior is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of São Paulo, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, and research collaborator in the Group of Research and Extension in Agroindustrial Logistics (USP/ESALQ/ESALQ-LOG). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Franca (UNIFRAN), a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the São Paulo State University, College of Engineering – Bauru (UNESP/FEB), and Doctor of Sciences in Industrial Engineering from the USP, São Carlos School of Engineering (USP/EESC), with split-site Doctorate period at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI). His research interests and expertise are related to Performance Measurement, Composite Indicators, Efficiency Analysis, Operations Research, and Quantitative Methods, mainly developing and applying Multivariate Analysis, Optimal Control Theory, and Data Envelopment Analysis models to evaluate Supply Chains, Logistics, and Inventory Control Systems. Also, he has published his research outcomes related to Logistics and Supply Chain in international high-impact peer-reviewed journals indexed to Web of Science, such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Transport Policy, and Promet-Traffic&Transportation. Besides, he has published in journals included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, such as Benchmarking: An International Journal and Transportation Research Procedia.
Panel Speaker V
Valeria Mendoza Cortés
Program Analyst
DHL Global Forwarding
Bogota, D.C., Capital District, Colombia
Diversity and Inclusion Panel
Sponsored by Ford Motor Company
5:00 – 6:30 pm (Thursday), April 8, 2021
Panel Chair
Dr. Jose Luis Guerrero-Cusuman0
Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management
McDonough School of Business
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C., USA
Jose-Luis Guerrero-Cusumano holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a Master of Sciences in Statistics from the Mathematics Department of the University of Illinois. He is also an Economics Statistician from the School of Economics Science, Rosario University, Argentina. Jose-Luis Guerrero-Cusumano is a Tenured Associate Professor at the Georgetown University School of Business. Prof. Guerrero-Cusumano has been a member of the faculty at Georgetown since 1989 in the School of Business. He is also the recipient of the Gold Medal for service at Georgetown University. Professor Guerrero-Cusumano was the Academic Director of the Corporate International Master’s at the Georgetown University School of Business (2012-2017). He is former co-Director of the International Institute on Government, Management, and Policy at Georgetown University. In 2008, Professor Guerrero-Cusumano was awarded an Honorary Doctorate, Doctor Honoris Causa in Administration by Ovidius University (Romania). Also in 2008, he was elected Fellow at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, England. In 2017, he was recognized by the International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management with the Fellow & Distinguished Scholar Award. Among his research areas are Big and Small Data, Data Mining, Text Mining, International Business, Social Responsibility, Business Forecasting, Six Sigma and Quality Improvement.
In 2017, he was the Co-Chair of the international conference on Responsible Organizations in the Global Context. He was also the Deputy Director and Executive Editor of the journal Globalization, Competitiveness and Governability, Spain, 2007-2011. Dr. Guerrero-Cusumano has published over fifty articles in leading journals. Prof. Guerrero-Cusumano has been a member of the faculty at Georgetown since 1989 in the School of Business. He is also the recipient of the Gold Medal for service at Georgetown University. Professor Guerrero Cusumano was the deputy Director and Executive Editor of the journal Globalization, Competitiveness and Governability, Georgetown U-Universia, Spain, 2007-2011. Professor Guerrero-Cusumano was also the Vice-president of the Latin American Foundation for Quality and he is also a founding member of The Multinational Alliance for the Advancement of Organizational Excellence (MAAOE). In February 2004, he was the technical chairperson for the 3rd Latin American Quality Conference held in Managua, Nicaragua. He was also a member of the International think Tank on Quality and Social Responsibility for the American Society for Quality.
He won the Belgian-American foundation research grant 1995, and spent Spring 1995 as a visiting professor at Institut d’Administration et de Gestion (IAG), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium) and at Vesalius College (Vrije Universiteit), Brussels. In the fall 1997, Professor Guerrero-Cusumano spent his sabbatical year at Ghent University (The Vlerick School of Business), Ghent, Belgium as an invited professor, where he researched European Quality Certifications for Academic Institutions. In spring 2006, he was invited by Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE) in Barcelona, where he spent part of his sabbatical. Professor Guerrero-Cusumano has also lectured widely internationally. He is also a researcher at “Laboratoire de Recherche en Management” (University of Versailles, France) in the area of Comprehensive Management, Quality and Innovation. He has lectured at European Quality Master Program system (Versailles University, France; University of Limerick, Ireland; Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy; University of Piraeus, Athens, Greece; Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain), the Master of Total Quality Management (Vaxjo University, Vaxjo, Sweden), the Master of Quality Management (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel), and the Master of Industrial Engineering (Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium) as an invited professor.
Dr. Guerrero-Cusumano was an examiner for the American National Science Foundation in the areas of “Transformations to Quality Organizations Program”, the “Production and Operations Research Program” and “the Innovation and Organizational Change Program”. Also, Professor Guerrero-Cusumano served as an examiner for the American National Research Council in the area of Benchmarking and for Institute of International Education. Internationally, Professor Guerrero-Cusumano was an examiner for the European Foundation for Quality Management (E.F.Q.M.). He is a member of the Consumer Interest Forum of the American National Standards Institute.
He has been an external judge for several Ph.D. thesis defenses for prestigious international universities as well as a reviewer for many publications such as Management Science, the Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Information Sciences, etc. Professor Guerrero-Cusumano has been a plenary speaker in many conferences around the world and has appeared repeatedly in the media, such as America’s Voice, French TV5, National Public Radio, the international Spanish channel Univision, the Voice of America and CNN international and Jim Lehrer’s News Hour. He speaks seven languages fluently (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish).
Panel Speaker I
Professor Tonya L. Smith-Jackson
Senior Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs
NC A&T State University
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
Tonya Smith-Jackson, PhD, CPE is Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at NC A&T State University in Greensboro, NC. Dr. Smith-Jackson earned MS and PhD degrees from NCSU in Psychology/Ergonomics and Interdisciplinary Industrial Engineering. She earned a BA in Psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill. She spent 14 years at Virginia Tech, moving from assistant to associate to full professor of ISE. She is interim director of the Center of Excellence in Research, Education and Outreach and directs the Human Factors Analytics Lab and co-directs the laboratory for Cyber-Human Analytics Research for the Internet of Things (CHARIoT).
Panel Speaker II
Ms. Aryanne Quintal
Specialist, Science, Technology and Innovation
Department of Economic Development
Organization of American States – OAS
Washington, DC 20006, USA
Aryanne Quintal is a Specialist within the Competitiveness, Innovation and Technology Section of the Organization of American States (OAS). In her current position, she participates in the formulation, execution and evaluation of multiple regional development initiatives in the areas of technology transfer and commercialization; technology foresight; transformative technologies and the future of work; engineering education; national quality infrastructure and diversity and inclusion in STEM.
She also serves as one of the main contact points for the Governments of the 34 Member Countries of the OAS, as well as coordinator of the two (2) highest hemispheric dialogues on science and technology of the region, namely the Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Science and Technology and the Inter-American Committee on Science and Technology.
Additionally, Ms. Quintal is a recognized international guest speaker on issues of science, technology and innovation for social and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is also a guest lecturer for the course “Humanitarian Development” at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Harvard University.
Ms. Quintal speaks French, English and Spanish. She has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Canada, and a Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Political Communication from the same University.
Panel Speaker III
Prof. Maria Jesus Saenz, PhD
Executive Director, MIT SCM Blended Master Program
Director, MIT Digital Supply Chain Transformation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Transportation & Logistics
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Dr. Maria Jesus Saenz is the Director of the research area on Digital Supply Chain Transformation at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, as Research Scientist. The primary research aims at leveraging the connections among inter-organizational business drivers when facing new collaborative paradigms in digital transformations. Such opportunities require approaches that encompass the challenges of innovation around digitalization, with organizational changes at inter-organizational level, including multidimensional collaboration, digital supply chain capabilities and digital customer value.
Dr. Saenz also serves as the Executive Director of the MIT Supply Chain Management Blended Master Program, an elite MIT degree that allows learners to combine the MITx MicroMasters credential with one+ semester at MIT.
Dr. Saenz teaches various courses at Master, PhD and Executive Education level on Digital Transformation, Supply Chain Management, Collaboration, Risks, Resilience and Project Management. Regarding her education, Dr. Saenz is certified in Participant Centered Learning by Harvard Business School. She received Cum Laude and the Outstanding Doctoral Award for her PhD in Manufacturing and Design Engineering from the University of Zaragoza, where she previously obtained her M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, while she also studied Mathematics Sciences for several years. In 2003, she received her tenure as Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Zaragoza. In 2004, she joined the newly-formed research institute MIT Zaragoza Logistics Center as Professor, and she has also served the Center as its Executive Director. She was also the Director of the Spanish Center of Excellence in Logistics. Dr. Saenz has also led various international research projects for the European Commission, as well as for companies on Supply Chain Management innovation, such as P&G, Carrefour, Clariant, Dell, DHL, Leroy Merlin or Caterpillar. She is co-author of more than 80 publications, including books and articles in leading international Journals. Her knowledge transfer work has received 14 awards and her research was cited in the media including MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes, Financial Times Press or Supply Chain Management Review. She also regularly interacts with business leaders in more than 15 countries.
Panel Speaker IV
Dr. Soyica Diggs Colbert
Interim Dean of Georgetown College & Idol Family Professor
Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057, USA
Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Interim Dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University, where she is also the Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts.
She is also an Associate Director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Colbert is the author of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry (forthcoming April 2021), Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics (Rutgers University Press, 2017), and The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance and the Stage (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Colbert co-edited Race and Performance After Repetition (Duke University Press, 2020) and The Psychic Hold of Slavery (Rutgers University Press, 2016). She served as a Creative Content Producer for The Public Theatre’s audio play, shadow/land and is currently working on co-written volume, Black Existentialism.
Colbert has published articles in American Theatre, African American Review, Theatre Survey, Modern Drama, Boundary 2, South Atlantic Quarterly, Scholar and Feminist Online, and Theatre Topics and in the collections: Black Performance Theory, Contemporary African American Women Playwrights, and August Wilson: Completing the Cycle.
She has served as a dramaturg for productions at Arena Stage of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, and Eduardo Machado’s Celia and Fidel as well as at Shakespeare Theatre Company of James Baldwin’s Amen Corner. She is the recipient of the Schomburg Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Mellon Summer Research Grant, and the Robert W. Woodruff Library Fellowship. Her research interests span the 19th-21st centuries, from Harriet Tubman to Beyoncé, and from poetics to performance.
Panel Speaker V
Dr. Sheri Sheppard
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, USA
Sheri Sheppard teaches both undergraduate and graduate design-related classes, and conducts research on fracture mechanics and applied finite element analysis, and on how people become engineers. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study. In addition to publishing technical papers, reports, and textbooks, she has led or co-led several large, multi-institutional projects to build new educational research programs and related resources, such as the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE), The National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter), and a program on summer research experiences for high school teachers. Her industry experience includes engineering positions at Detroit’s “Big Three” — Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, and Chrysler Corporation. She earned her bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin, and her PhD at the University of Michigan. At Stanford she has served a chair of the faculty senate, as associate vice provost for graduate education, and is the longtime faculty founder of and adviser to the graduate student group MEwomen. Her work has been recognized with numerous honors and awards, including the Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford University’s highest award for excellence in teaching and the Chester F. Carlson and Ralph Coats Roe Awards of the American Society for Engineering Education in recognition of distinguished accomplishment in engineering education, and for outstanding teaching and notable contributions to the mechanical engineering profession.
Panel Speaker VI
Dr. Roberta de Castro Souza Pião
Department of Production Engineering
Polytechnic School
University of São Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Roberta de Castro Souza Pião holds a degree in Economic Sciences from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (1995), a master’s degree in Production Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos (1999), a doctorate in Production Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (2005) and was visiting researcher at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK. She is currently a PhD professor in the Department of Production Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. Member of the Deliberative Council of NAP-CORS / USP (Center for the Study of Organizations). It is dedicated to the areas of “Organizational Economics” and ‘Strategy, Organization and Operations Management’.
Conference Awards Ceremony, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, April 8, 2021