11th IEOM Global Engineering Education

Washington DC, USA
Venue: UDC Campus
September 27-29, 2018

IEOM Society addresses the issues of Global Engineering Education. There are different levels of readiness of engineering graduates from various parts of the world. One of the main themes of this series is how to reduce the readiness gap around the world. The special focus is given to Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering including Engineering Management. Are the engineering graduates ready to take on the challenges of the current global economy? With the great success of Global Engineering Education Series of last IEOM conferences, IEOM 2018 Washington DC Conference will have the 11th Global Engineering Education where distinguished speakers will discuss the readiness of engineering graduates for workforce around the world. Featured speakers will be from various part of the world to address engineering education challenges and opportunities.

Talks can be related on:

problem based learning
project based learning
active collaborative learning
student learning
assessment
teaching and learning
pedagogy
curriculum improvement
innovation and entrepreneurship
etc.

Each speaker needs to submit a title of the talk, abstract and a short bio as well as power point presentation. All will be included in the IEOM 2018 DC Conference proceedings. If you are interested to be distinguished feature speaker, please contact info@ieomsociety.org for details.

Global Engineering Education Chairs

Dr. Abu Masud, Boeing Global Engineering Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA
Dr. Hamid Parsaei, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University (College Station) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Academic Outreach, Texas A&M University Qatar

11th GEE IEOM DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

Thursday (September 27, 2018)

Session I: Global Engineering Education (Room – 1)
Session Chair: Dr. Esther T. Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia
2:30 pm– 4:00 pm (Thursday)

2:30 pm – 3:00 (Thursday)

Dr. Jacqueline Chestnut

Adjunct Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering Department
College of Engineering
North Carolina A&T State University
1601 E. Market St
Greensboro, NC

Jacqueline Chestnut is an adjunct professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department of North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC. She is also an Adjunct Instructor for the Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Master of Engineering Management in the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA. She earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University, College of Engineering, Greensboro, North Carolina. Dr. Chestnut received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. She has published journal and conference papers. Dr. Chestnut has done research projects with General Motors, Jones International University and Lawrence Technological University. Her research interests include human error, simulation, online education, human factors and ergonomics. She is a member of CUR, ASQ and Sloan

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm (Thursday)

Dr. Bolanle Tolulope Abe

Senior Lecturer and Acting Academic Manager
Department of Electrical Engineering
Tshwane University of Technology
eMalahleni campus, South Africa

Active Learning in Engineering Education: Focus on TUT Perspective

Dr. Bolanle Tolulope Abe earned her Master degree in Communication Engineering from the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. She worked as a professional studio engineer at the Ondo-State Television Broadcasting Corporation, Nigeria before she moved into academics. Dr. Abe taught at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria before she relocated to South Africa for further studies. She obtained Doctoral degree (PhD) in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Abe is a senior lecturer and the acting academic manager of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), eMalahleni campus, South Africa. She is a senate member of the University and also the Chairperson of the TUT Women in Engineering. Her passion is to motivate females in choosing engineering as a profession and to remain in the engineering profession. She is a member of many professional bodies among which are: the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), South Africa Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE), Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM). Her research interests are multi-disciplinary; these include the application of computational intelligence in remote sensing, Communication engineering, Electromagnetic Compatibility, corrosion and water resource management. She has track records in human capacity development by supervising and producing Masters and Doctoral students. She has published several papers in Journals, book chapters and has presented conference papers in many countries. She is an editor of the African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, Neural Computing and Applications Journal and Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing.

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm (Thursday)

Dr. Esther T. Ososanya

Professor and Chair
University of the District of Columbia
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20008

Dr. Esther T. Ososanya is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the District of Columbia, and the current department chairperson. During her career, Dr. Ososanya has worked for private industry as a circuit development engineer and as a software engineer, in addition to her academic activities. She received her education in the United Kingdom, where she achieved her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bradford in 1985, and a Post Doctoral Research Fellow from the University of Birmingham, UK. She was a Visiting Professor at Michigan Technological University for five years, and an Associate professor at Tennessee Technological University for 7 years prior to arriving at the University of the District of Columbia in the Fall of 2001. Dr. Ososanya research interests include new applications for VLSI ASIC design, Microcomputer Architecture, Embedded Systems design, Nanotechnology, and Renewable Energy Systems. In recent years, she has worked with colleagues to apply these technologies to Biomass research, Solar Cells efficiency capture research, and Renewable Energy Curriculum developments.

Session II: Global Engineering Education (Room – 1)
Session Chair:
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (Thursday)

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm (Thursday)

Professor Sarma Yadavalli

Head
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa

Sarma Yadavalli is presently working as Professor, and Head, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Pretoria. His research areas of interest include, Applied stochastic modeling towards Reliability engineering, Queuing theory, Inventory management, Quality control and various estimation and optimization problems related to these areas. Sarma Yadavalli is NRF (National Research Foundation, South Africa) rated, and attracted several research projects. He was former President of OR Society of South Africa. More than 135 research papers have been published in various national and international journals to his credit.

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm (Thursday)

Prof. Dr. Md. Nurul Absar Chowdhury

Professor
Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering
Islamic University of Technology (IUT
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC
Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704
Bangladesh

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm (Thursday)

ID 157 Multi-criteria Decision-making in Situations with a Large Number of Alternatives

Amir Hessami

Civil and Architectural Engineering Department
Texas A&M University–Kingsville
Kingsville, TX 78363
USA

Amir Hessami is an assistant professor of construction management in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at Texas A&M University–Kingsville (TAMUK). He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Construction Management) from Texas A&M University, an M.Sc. in Civil Engineering (Hydraulic Structures) from Sharif University, and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Ferdowsi University. His research is in the areas of infrastructure asset management, project management, and construction management, with a focus on decision-making under uncertainty, risk analysis, and life-cycle cost analysis. Dr. Hessami’s background includes more than fifteen years of research, teaching, and practical experience in the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of infrastructure projects.

Joon-Yeoul Oh

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department
Texas A&M University–Kingsville
Kingsville, TX
USA

Joon-Yeoul Oh is an associate professor of Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University–Kingsville (TAMUK). He earned a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from New Mexico State University and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Chong-Ju University. His work is in the area of operations research and engineering management, focusing on risk analysis, risk management and responses, project management, network optimization, wireless telecommunication network expansion and optimization, non-linear programming, heuristic algorithms, integer programming, linear programming, queueing theory, information systems engineering, and algorithm development. Dr. Oh has more than 15 years of teaching and research experiences at TAMUK and has published more than 50 journal and conference papers. His recent projects include emergency response-time optimization, improving garbage collection routing, and developing real-time aid for evacuation routing.

Friday (September 28, 2018)

Session III: Global Engineering Education (Room – 1)
Session Chair:
8:00 am – 9:30 am (Friday)

8:00 am – 8:30 am (Friday)

Anjum Ali, Ph.D.

Professor, Electrical Engineering Department
Editor-in-Chief, FAST-NU Research Journal
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Lahore, Pakistan

Engineering Education in Pakistan: How it changed in the past forty years

Dr. Anjum Ali completed his Ph.D. degree in August 1988 from the University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A. He has been teaching Electrical and Computer Engineering subjects since March 1978. His first teaching appointment, as a lecturer of Electrical Engineering, was at the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan, after winning gold medals in each of the last three years of his undergraduate engineering education. His teaching experience includes twelve years at Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, USA, and about nine years at three different universities in Saudi Arabia. He has also worked, as an associate professor, at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan, from 1996 to 1998. He served as the chairman of the Electronics Engineering and Instrumentation Department at the Hail Community College (now University of Hail), Hail, Saudi Arabia, from February 2000 to June 2002. During his stay there, he developed a four-year degree program in Electrical Engineering for the University of Hail. Dr. Anjum Ali moved to Pakistan in July 2002, and joined Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS) at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, as a professor in December 2002. During his stay at KICS, he initiated many research and development projects and won research grants. He has been a professor of Electrical Engineering at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, (FAST-NU), Lahore, since May 2005. Dr. Anjum Ali has taught many EE, CE and CS courses and supervised numerous graduate as well as undergraduate students during his 40 years of teaching career. He has over 30 conference and journal publications. He is also the founding editor of the FAST-NU Research Journal. His areas of current research interest include embedded control systems and computer architecture.

8:30 am – 9:00 am (Friday)

Dr. Rezg Nidhal

Professor of University
Director of LGIPM Laboratory (Laboratoire de Génie Industriel, de Production et de Maintenance)
Director of Training and Research Unit (MIM)
University of Lorraine
Metz, France

Joint Optimization of Production and Maintenance Planning With an Carbon Emission and Quality Impact Study for a manufacturing system under degradation

Nidhal Rezg is a Doctor of Industrial Automatic from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Lyon in 1996. Accreditation to supervise research at the University of Metz in 2003. he was Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Moncton, New Brunswick Canada from 1997 to 1999 and Associate professor at the University of Metz until 2004, and currently holds the position of Professor of University. He is director of LGIPM laboratory since October 2006 and scientific responsable of the INRIA CusTom team from 2007 to 2011. His research interests is the optimization of maintenance policies coupled to production, the optimal control SED. He is the author of sixty papers in international journals, directors of 12 theses and 4 Accreditation to supervise research. Keywords research are modeling, simulation and optimization of stochastic processes, reliability and maintenance and Petri nets.

9:00 am – 9:30 am (Friday)

Said Kafumbe and Zine-Eddine Abid

Electrical Engineering Technology
Higher Colleges of Technology
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Said Mutaka Mukasa KAFUMBE, Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Said is an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi with over 20 years of industrial and academic experience. His research interests lie in the fields of nanotechnology, autonomous systems development, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), and semiconductor technology integration, as well as the advancement of novel teaching and learning course curriculum development techniques.

ID 024 Engineering Course Curriculum Development with Application Specific Mathematics Course Content
Said Kafumbe and Zine-Eddine Abid, Electrical Engineering Technology, Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Session IV: Global Engineering Education (Room – 1)
Session Chair:
11:30 am – 1:00 pm (Friday)

11:30 am – 12:00 pm (Friday)

Dr. Adedeji Badiru

Dean
Graduate School of Engineering and Management
Air Force Institute of Technology
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

An Integrative Systems Engineering Framework for Operational Excellence

Deji Badiru is the Dean and senior academic officer for the Graduate School of Engineering and Management at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). He is responsible for planning, directing, and controlling all operations related to granting doctoral and master’s degrees, professional continuing cyber education, and research and development programs. In his post-high-school days, Deji worked as a graphic artist for children television programs, as a writer and columnist for community newspapers, and as an accounts clerk. These are practical skills that he frequently uses, even today, in his administrative and professional duties.

Deji Badiru was previously Professor and Head of Systems Engineering and Management at AFIT, Professor and Department Head of Industrial & Information Engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Dean of University College at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. He is a registered professional engineer (PE), a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering. He holds BS in Industrial Engineering, MS in Mathematics, and MS in Industrial Engineering from Tennessee Technological University, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida. His areas of interest include mathematical modeling, systems efficiency analysis, and high-tech product development. He is the author of over 30 books, 35 book chapters, 75 technical journal articles, 115 conference proceedings and presentations. He also has published 30 magazine articles and 20 editorials and periodicals. He is a member of several professional associations and scholastic honor societies.

Deji Badiru has won several awards for his teaching, research, and professional accomplishments. He is the recipient of the 2009 Dayton Affiliate Society Council Award for Outstanding Scientists and Engineers in the Education category with a commendation from the 128th Senate of Ohio. He also won 2010 IIE Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He also won 2010 ASEE John Imhoff Award for his global contributions to Industrial Engineering Education, the 2011 Federal Employee of the Year Award in the Managerial Category from the International Public Management Association, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, the 2012 Distinguished Engineering Alum Award from the University of Central Florida, and the 2012 Medallion Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers for his global contributions in the advancement of the profession. In February 2013, he was selected as a finalist for the Jefferson Science Fellows (JSF) program by the US National Academy of Sciences and the US Department of State. Prof. Badiru was the leader of the AFIT team that won the 2013 Air Force Organizational Excellence Award for Air University C3 (Cost Conscious Culture). His most recent award is the 2015 National Public Service Award at the overall US Air Force level.

Deji Badiru has served as a consultant to several organizations around the world including Russia, Mexico, Taiwan, Nigeria, Ghana, and Canada. He has conducted customized training workshops for numerous organizations including Sony, AT&T, Seagate Technology, U.S. Air Force, Oklahoma Gas & Electric, Oklahoma Asphalt Pavement Association, Hitachi, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, and ExxonMobil. He holds a leadership certificate from the University Tennessee Leadership Institute. He has served as a Technical Project Reviewer, curriculum reviewer, and proposal reviewer for several organizations including The Third-World Network of Scientific Organizations, Italy, National Science Foundation, National Research Council, and the American Council on Education. He is on the editorial and review boards of several technical journals and book publishers. Deji has also served as an Industrial Development Consultant to the United Nations Development Program. He is also a program evaluator for ABET, the international engineering and technology accreditation body. In 2011, Prof. Badiru led a research team to develop analytical models for Systems Engineering Research Efficiency (SEER) for the Air Force acquisitions integration office at the Pentagon. He has led a multi-year composite manufacturing collaborative research between the Air Force Institute of Technology and Wyle Aerospace Group.

Deji Badiru has diverse areas of avocation. His professional accomplishments are coupled with his passion for writing about everyday events and interpersonal issues, especially those dealing with social responsibility. Outside of the academic realm, he writes motivational poems, editorials, and newspaper commentaries; as well as engaging in paintings and crafts. As a contribution to sparking the interest of kids in science and engineering, Deji runs the Physics of Soccer website (www.physicsofsoccer.com). He is the founder of the Association of Military Industrial Engineers (AMIE). He also runs ABICS Publications, through which he publishes non-technical guide books for home, work, and leisure. A prolific researcher and author, Deji espouses the spirit of sharing knowledge freely and widely, which is the reason he offers self-published guide books to make his publications affordable and accessible to the general public.

Education

PhD, Industrial Engineering, University of Central Florida
MS, Mathematics, Tennessee Technological University
BS, MS, Industrial Engineering, Tennessee Tech Univ

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm (Friday)

Prof Clinton Aigbavboa., Ph.D.

Vice Dean: Postgraduate Studies, Research and Innovation
Head: Sustainable Human Settlement and Construction Research Centre
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, RSA
Editor – Journal of Construction Project Management and Innovation (JCPMI)

Prof. Aigbavboa Clinton, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interest are situated in the fields of sustainable human development, with the focus on: sustainable housing regeneration (urban renewal and informal housing), Life Cycle Assessment in the Construction Industry, remanufacturing, leadership in low-income housing, Biomimicry, post occupancy evaluation and green job creation.

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm (Friday)

Dr. Bachtiar H. Simamora

Associate Professor
Leader of Performance Excellence Research Group
Bina Nusantara University
Jakarta, Indonesia

Bachtiar H. Simamora is an Associate Professor, and Leader of Performance Excellence Research Group at Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia. He earned B.S. in Mathematics from North Sumatera University, Medan, Indonesia, Master’s in General Operations Research from School of Engineering and Applied Science the George Washington University, Washington DC, USA and PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management from Oklahoma State University Stillwater Oklahoma, USA. He has published journal and conference papers. He has started new journal named International Journal of Organizational Business Excellence (IJOBEX) where he is the Editor-in-Chief. Dr Simamora has just completed research projects with Asian Productivity Organization (APO) about Public Sector Productivity. His research interests include Business Process Modelling and Mapping, Business Process Improvement, Organizational Performance Excellence, simulation, optimization, reliability, scheduling, and lean. He is member of ORSA and ICSB.

Session V: Global Engineering Education (Room – 1)
Session Chair:
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm (Friday)

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm (Friday)

Dr. Pule Kholopane

Associate Professor
Head of Department: Quality and Operations Management
Department of Quality and Operations Management
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa

New strategies and approaches in operations management are needed in order to meet challenges that will be brought about by new technological development like industry 4.0 and internet of things (IOT) in both private and public institutions

Professor Pule Aaron Kholopane is currently a Head of Department in the Department of Quality and Operations Management, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg. He worked at Unilever first as an Operator and then a Plant Controller position within a manufacturing plant. He was then promoted to a Shift Manager position. He left Unilever in 2000 to take up a job at Picto Thobela Enterprise as a Technical Director. He left the company in 2003 to pursue his business interests. He established two companies called PULE AND MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS (PUMAC) and SEBATI AND KHOLOPANE Construction. Both companies were involved in many private and Government projects.

Professor Kholopane did part time lecturing at Production Management Institute (PMI) and later joined Vaal University of Technology as a Senior Lecturer in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management department but later moved to the University of Johannesburg to take up a senior post. He also acted as the Head of Department (HOD). A number of research papers have been published in various national and international journals to his credit.

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm (Friday)

Pradeep K. Behera, Ph.D., PE, D. WRE

Professor and Chair
Civil Engineering Department
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University of the District of Columbia
4200 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20008

Dr. Pradeep K. Behera, P.E., D.WRE, the recipient of The Dr. Marjorie Holloman Parker Distinguished Educator’s Award, is Professor and Chair of Department of Civil Engineering at the University of the District of Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). Dr. Pradeep Behera has been an engineering educator for last 25 years in three different countries. He received his bachelors and master’s degrees from Sambalpur University, India and Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Behera started his engineering faculty career at the National Institute of Technology, India in 1990. Since then he has been serving as an engineering educator in India, Canada and United States. He joined UDC as an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Program in 2005. He has been serving as first Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering which was created in 2013. Prior to joining UDC he was working as Sr. Water Resources Engineer in Canada and USA. His research interests include urban stormwater management, water resources engineering, sustainable urban water systems climate change and coastal infrastructures. He has published a number of research papers in peer review journals, book chapters, and international and national conference proceedings. He is a Professional Engineer from the State of Maryland, District of Columbia and is a Diplomat from the American Academy of Water resources Engineers. He has more than 20 years of practical engineering experience in planning, design and analysis of water resources systems and has served as President of District of Columbia Society of Professional Engineers.

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm(Friday)

Dr. Lina Alvarado

Department of Industrial Engineering
Investigative group of Industrial and Environmental Processes (GIPIA)
University of Cundinamarca, Bogotá D.C – Soacha
Colombia

Lina Nataly Alvarado is an industrial designer with a Masters degree in industrial engineering from the National University of Colombia. She works within this university as well as in the Global Campaign, 100 million for a 100 million, led by the Foundation for a Better world. Her investigative projects can be classified in three lines of study within innovation: competence strategies, as she won the award for the undergraduate thesis for her development of new products and processes in small businesses; communication strategies for her work obtaining the Guiness World Record with the creation of a mobilization strategy that enforced public policy within the country and finally social innovation with the creation of an investigative group on this topic for her alma mater. She was an Incae Business School scholar and a trustee in the Social Entrepreneurial Summit hosted by the international nonprofit VIVA for her work in socially innovative projects.

ID 223 Design of an Architectural Traceability as an Observatory for Decision Making in Undergraduate Curriculums
Lina Nataly Alvarado Riaño and Jefferson Aldamer Rubiano Forero, Department of Industrial Engineering, Investigative group of Industrial and Environmental Processes (GIPIA), University of Cundinamarca, Bogotá D.C – Soacha, Diagonal 9 No. 595, Colombia.

Session VI: Global Engineering Education (Room – 1)
Session Chair:
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (Friday)

4:30 pm– 5:00 pm (Friday)

Dr. Rumi Tobita

Associate Professor
Department of Innovative Engineering
Ashikaga University
Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan

Rumi Tobita is a professor of department of Engineering, Ashikaga University in Japan. Prof. Tobita holds a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree in Language Education, a Master of Education degree in Audio-Visual Education, and certification of Doctoral Candidate in Educational Technology from International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. Her research topics are Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Educational Technology, Curriculum Development, English Program Development, English for Specific Purposes, Extracurricular activity and International Exchange Program Development, and Brain Science. She has taught several fields of courses such as Educational Technology, Social Information, Brain Science besides English courses for engineering students for more than 10 years. She is committee member of The Japan Association for Language Education and Technology (LET) and also local organizing committee of WorldCALL 2008 and FLEAT VII.

ID 248 Integrating Analysis with NIRS and Active-Learning strategies for Developing an Effective ESP Course Design
Rumi Tobita, Department of Innovative Engineering, Ashikaga University, Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm (Friday)

Dr. Tonya Smith-Jackson

Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Greensboro, NC, USA
Program Director (rotator) at the National Science Foundation (NSF/CISE Directorate/IIS Division)

Tonya Smith-Jackson, PhD, CPE is a Program Director (rotator) at the National Science Foundation (NSF/CISE Directorate/IIS Division). The presentation topic is based on some of her work associated with the Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership (CASL), which is funded by the National Science Foundation. Before her temporary leave, she served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at NC A&T State University. She is a CASL Leadership Fellow, Higher Education Resources Services (HERS) Fellow, and an NC A&T State University Executive Leadership and Professional Development participant. She earned her BS degree in psychology (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and holds an interdisciplinary Master of Science degree from NC State University in Industrial Engineering and Psychology; her doctoral degree is in Psychology/Ergonomics. She is a Certified Professional Ergonomist, and a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Research areas include usability engineering, cognitive ergonomics, and sociotechnical systems applied to cyber-human systems, systems safety, learning systems, and training systems design. Research sponsors include NSF, National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and private industry (UPS, Toshiba). She has worked in industry and the federal government in the USA and abroad.

Dr. G. Don Taylor

Vice Provost for Learning Systems Innovation and Effectiveness
Charles O. Gordon Professor
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA, USA

Don Taylor, PhD, PE is the Vice Provost for Learning Systems Innovation & Effectiveness and the Charles O. Gordon Professor at Virginia Tech. Prior to this position, he served as Interim Dean of the College of Engineering and as the Head of the Grado Department of Industrial Engineering at Virginia Tech. He has also held the Mary Lee and George F. Duthie Chair in Engineering Logistics at the University of Louisville and was the Director of The Logistics Institute at the University of Arkansas. He is a Fellow and Past-President of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), and is a Fellow and member of the Board of the World Academy of Productivity Science. He is a registered Professional Engineer.

ID 286 Empowering Undergraduate Student Researchers through Inclusive Research Learning Systems
Tonya Smith-Jackson, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, Greensboro, NC, USA
Don Taylor, Learning Systems Innovation and Effectiveness, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm (Friday)

Michael S. Mkwanazi

Mkwananazi Sizwe

Research Associate
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
University of Johannesburg
South Africa

Michael S. Mkwanazi is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Mr. Mkwanazi holds a National Diploma in Entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Technology Degree in Operations Management, and Master of Technology Degree in Operations Management (Cum Laude) from the University of Johannesburg and a Postgraduate Diploma from North West University. In 2017 he was awarded the prestigious Rhodes scholarship to pursue an MSc Degree in Business Management – Entrepreneurship at Oxford Brookes University. He is also admitted to the University of Oxford to read for a DPhil. Education degree programme from October 2018 focusing on Entrepreneurship Education Ecosystems. In 2016 he was recognized as a runner up for the Queens Young Leaders Initiative which is managed by the Cambridge University Institute for Continuing Education. He has published some conference papers in the field of co-operatives and on system reliability under IEEM.

Professor Charles Mbohwa

Prof Charles Mbohwa

Acting Executive Dean
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (FEBE)
University of Johannesburg
South Africa

Charles Mbohwa Professor Charles Mbohwa is the Acting Executive Dean at University of Johannesburg’s (UJ) Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (FEBE). As an established researcher and professor in the field of sustainability engineering and energy, his specializations include sustainable engineering, energy systems, life cycle assessment and bio-energy/fuel feasibility and sustainability with general research interests in renewable energies and sustainability issues. Professor Mbohwa has presented at numerous conferences and published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, 6 book chapters and one book. Upon graduating with his B.Sc. Honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Zimbabwe in 1986, he was employed as a mechanical engineer by the National Railways of Zimbabwe. He holds a Masters in Operations Management and Manufacturing Systems from University of Nottingham and completed his doctoral studies at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology in Japan. Prof Mbohwa was a Fulbright Scholar visiting the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology is a fellow of the Zimbabwean Institution of Engineers and is a registered mechanical engineer with the Engineering Council of Zimbabwe. He has been a collaborator to the United Nations Environment Programme, and Visiting Exchange Professor at Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná. He has also visited many countries on research and training engagements including the United Kingdom, Japan, German, France, the USA, Brazil, Sweden, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mauritius, Austria, the Netherlands, Uganda, Namibia and Australia.

ID 135 Education Programmes for Manufacturing Cooperatives: United Kingdom and South Africa Study
Sizwe Mkwanazi and Charles Mbohwa, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Saturday (September 29, 2018)

Session VII: Curriculum Development for Business Analytics (Room – 1)
Session Chair: Professor Lillian Kamal, University of Hartford
8:00 am – 9:30 am (Saturday)

Challenges and opportunities in curriculum development for Business Analytics

The focus of this session is mainly on practical aspects of course development, instruction, appropriate software in the context of growing data. In addition, student preparedness, ability to succeed through the learning process and serve the future needs of the business community will be addressed.

Professor James Peta Jr

Visiting Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, Finance and Insurance
Barney School of Business
University of Hartford

Presentation title: Delivery of Quant and Business Statistics courses to the Business students and developing MS in Business Analytics to meet the demands of the businesses

Abstract: In the first part of the presentation, I will discuss how to best introduce and deliver quantitative courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels for students who will be seeking jobs in a market where there is an increased demand for employees with quantitative skills. This program involved developing an MBA concentration and an undergraduate minor in Business Analytics for the Barney School of Business. Part One is the precursor for developing an MS in Business Analytics. In the second part, I will outline my survey of corporate executives from around the country, with special focus on my findings among executives in New York City and Boston. Because of this survey I felt confident that I had designed a program geared to the current market demand.

Biography: Jim Peta is a faculty member in the Department of Economics, Barney School of Business, University of Hartford, specializing in quantitative methods. He received his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his MBA from the University of Hartford in 1969. He has taught as an adjunct at the University of Hartford since 1973 before becoming a regular faculty member in 2008. Mr. Peta served as Director of the Accelerated MBA program from 2010 to 2012 and as Director of the MBA program from 2012 to2015. In 2018 he became Director of the new MS in Business Analytics which will be launched in spring 2019.

During his tenure, Mr. Peta developed and implemented the Business Analytics minor for the undergraduate business program. He also developed and implemented a Business Analytics Concentration for the MBA program. As an active member of the Barney School of Business faculty, he has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses. These include Quantitative Methods for Business Decisions, Managerial Statistics, and Business Forecasting.

Mr. Peta has received numerous commendations for his excellence in teaching at Barney School of Business, University of Hartford.

2017 High Impact Faculty.
2016 Gordon Clark Ramsey Award for Creative Excellence in teaching, University of Hartford.
2015 Professor Of The Year, Barney Leadership Council
2014 High Impact Faculty.
2013 Professor Of The Year, Barney Leadership Council

Mr. Peta has over 40 years as a business manager in the industrial sector of business. He has held positions as Vice President of Production for Pioneer Steel Ball, Manager of Manufacturing Operations for Thomson Precision Ball and most recently as a Senior Product Manager and Site Manager for Danaher.

Professor Lillian Kamal

Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, Finance and Insurance
Barney School of Business
University of Hartford

Presentation title: Issues in creating data analytics courses

Abstract: Data analytics is still a relatively new area of study. As such, courses in data analytics are as yet being fined tuned. This discussion focuses on issues that have arisen in the development and teaching of courses in data analytics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. These issues include the lack of case studies; lack of appropriate and adequate textbooks; and the lack of applications in different business fields. In particular, a marked gap exists in terms of long term case studies on the impact of data analytics on firm measures such as customer retention, sales, profitability, etc., and an adequate array of textbooks ranging from an introductory level to a more advanced level of business analytics. In addition, given diverse student backgrounds, it becomes necessary to create overview courses that present the application of data analytics and data visualization in different business areas. The difficulty in creating a such a course which provides an overview of major business areas and applications to business analytics will therefore be discussed at length.

Professor Bharat Kolluri

Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, Finance and Insurance
Barney School of Business
University of Hartford

Presentation title: What does an Introductory Course look like in Business Analytics?

Abstract: Introduction to Data mining, appropriate modeling and prediction in the decision-making process. Upon completion, students understand the basic concepts, gain gain deeper knowledge in analytics and perform better data analytics in a fast pace decision making environment.

This introductory course brings together the basic techniques of optimization and the statistical methods that can handle large sets of data with the appropriate software in the decision-making process commonly known as Business Analytics. Topics include data exploration, data visualization, predictive modelling techniques

Most of the business schools nationwide have started programs in Business Analytics, or at least a minor both at the undergraduate and graduate levels to provide practical solutions to the policy makers in the context of growing data, usually described as Big Data. These required the development of courses starting from pre-requisites, core courses and electives in the last three to four years. Unfortunately, there seems to be no consensus on the contents of these courses, software and even text books among the scholars in the literature including the introductory course on the subject matter. A well-organized introductory course on the topic is essential as a foundation to the development of other courses in the curriculum ladder. The purpose of this presentation is to bring up the issues and seek input and guidance from other colleagues and participants with the hope of developing and finalizing in to about 80% standard contents like any other introductory course in business disciplines such as Accounting, Finance and Economics.

BIO: Bharat Kolluri is Professor of Economics at the Barney School of Business, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He earned BA (Honours) in Mathematics and MS in Statistics from Andhra University, India, Masters and Ph.D.in Economics from State University of New York at Buffalo. His articles have appeared in journals such as The Review of Economics and Statistics, Applied Economics and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. He has recently published a text book with two of his colleagues, Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Business: Using Microsoft Office Excel, 1^st edition by John Wiley & Sons, 2017. Based on the recommendation of the Faculty Committee, the University bestowed the prestigious Bent Award for Scholarship/Creativity to Dr. Kolluri at Commencement on May 16, 2004.

Dr. Kolluri has presented papers in many professional organizations including American Economic Association, Econometric Society Meetings and others. He was invited to deliver an address during the Inaugural session of the 2^nd International Conference on India 2020, Vision for the Financial Sector, Delhi, March 10-11, 2014. The address is on the topic, “The Anatomy of the 2007-09 U.S. Great Recession, Policy Responses, and the impact on Emerging Markets”, jointly written with Prof. Kamal. His current research activity deals with Interest Elasticity of Savings among US households, Stock Returns and Expected Inflation during the recent period of disinflation 2009-2017, across major global stock markets. At present, he is expanding his areas of teaching interests to Business Analytics.

Session VIII: Global Engineering Education (Room – 1)
Session Chair:
11:30 am – 1:00 pm (Saturday)

11:30 am – 12:00 pm (Saturday)

Tonya Smith-Jackson

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Greensboro, NC 27411, USA
Current Position: Program Director, Cyber-Human Systems Division,
Cultivating Cultures of Ethics in STEM
Broadening Participation in Computing Work Group
National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA 22314

Tonya Smith-Jackson is currently serving in a rotational position at the National Science Foundation (NSF/CISE Directorate/IIS Division). The presentation topic is based on some of her work associated with the Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. Before coming to NSF, she served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at NC A&T State University. She is also director of the Human Factors Analytics Lab and co-director of the Cyber-Human Analytics Research for the Internet of Things (CHARIoT) lab. She earned her BS degree in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds an interdisciplinary Master of Science degree from NC State University in Industrial Engineering and Psychology; her doctoral degree is in Psychology/Ergonomics. She is Certified Professional Ergonomist. She has conducted research in usability engineering, cognitive ergonomics, and sociotechnical systems applied to cyber-human systems, systems safety, and training systems design. Research sponsors include NSF, National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and private industry (UPS, Toshiba). Prior to academia, she worked in industry and for the federal government in the USA and abroad. She is a member of IISE, HFES, ASEE, and INCOSE.

Fay Cobb Payton

Information Systems/Technology
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Current Position: Program Director, Computer & Network Systems Division,
Excellence in Research
INCLUDES Implementation Team
Broadening Participation in Computing Work Group
National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA 22314

Fay Cobb Payton is currently serving in a rotational position at the National Science Foundation (CISE Directorate/CNS Division). She is also a Full Professor (with Tenure) of Information Technology/Systems at North Carolina State University and is named a University Faculty Scholar for her leadership in turning research into solutions to society’s most pressing issues. She directs funded research efforts associated with myHealthImpactNetwork and ChangeComputerScience. She conducts research in healthcare IT/informatics and disparities; data management/science, social media use, STEAM + Arts, online communities; broadening participation in IT/computing and STEM education and workforce participation. Research sponsors include NSF, National Institutes of Health, Kenan Institute, NC State Foundation and private industry (KPMG, AT&T, and others). She earned a Ph.D. in Information & Decision Systems from Case Western Reserve University. She holds a MBA from Clark Atlanta University in Decision Sciences. She completed the Atlanta University Center Dual Degree Engineering Program with a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a BA in Accounting (with a minor in Mathematics) from Clark Atlanta University. Prior to joining academe, she worked in corporate IT, engineering and consulting at several US organizations. She is a member of ACM and IEEE.

Inclusive Research Advancement: Why Collaboration with HBCUs Matters

Abstract

Inclusive research is conceptualized as systematic discovery that is valid, reliable, useful, and meaningful for either the broadest range of target groups or explicitly-identified target groups. Engineering design flaws continue to arise due to ethnocentric research practices, such as algorithms that fail to recognize darker skinned persons and ill-fitting safety belts derived from gender-biased data. Lack of inclusive and culturally-responsive research slows progress and advancements in science, computing and engineering, and in fact, could endanger certain intended users. We contend that collaboration with HBCUs may enhance other researchers’ inclusive research capabilities and minimize research flaws accounting for some of the problems of bias in research. As of 2017, there are 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the USA. Prospective collaborators may hold misconceptions about the quality and rigor of HBCU faculty and the research programs. There are opportunities for institutions in and outside of the USA to collaborate with HBCUs to leverage advanced HBCU faculty technical expertise and knowledge of inclusive and culturally-competent research. Yet, collaborations and equitable partnerships have not been growing as expected. We will discuss key concepts associated with equitable, fair, and ethical collaborations with HBCUs to support inclusive research.

ID 287 Inclusive Research Advancement: Why Collaboration with HBCUs Matters
Tonya Smith-Jackson, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC, USA
Fay Cobb Payton, Information Systems/Technology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

12:00 pm– 12:30 pm (Saturday)

ID 398 A Framework for Teaching Manufacturing Paradigms Using Simulation

Scott McCurdy

Cochranton Junior-Senior High School
Cochranton, PA 16314, USA

Scott McCurdy is in his 12th year in public education. He earned undergraduate degree and teaching certifications from Grove City College and has worked with students at all levels in the subjects of Physics, Mathematics, and General Sciences. His teaching background includes 11 years in classroom where he worked extensively on STEMrelated initiatives. He connected local employers with his classroom curriculum and helped facilitate STEM professional development across the state of Maryland. He has also coached JV and Varsity sports during his career. Along the way, he earned his M.Ed. in School Administration from Liberty University and is currently the Assistant Principal and Athletic Director at Cochranton Jr/Sr High School in Pennsylvania.

His most recent STEM-related ambitions focus on piloting school’s first group of students to work through a newly created STEM Academy.

John Namey

Jefferson Area Junior-Senior High School
Jefferson, OH 44047, USA

John Namey has been a Math teacher and and sports coach at Jefferson High School for 4 years. He obtained his BS in Mathematics from The Ohio State University. By obtaining a Resident Educator License through ODE, he has taken the mathematical theory he learned from OSU back to his hometown of Jefferson to try and get students interested in STEM. He has worked on computer programming throughout college and into his professional career.

Faisal Aqlan

Industrial Engineering Department
Penn State Behrend
Erie, PA 16563, USA

Faisal Aqlan is currently an assistant professor of Industrial Engineering and Master of Manufacturing Management (MMM) at Penn State Behrend. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2013. Aqlan has worked on industry projects with Innovation Associates Company and IBM Corporation. His work has resulted in both business value and intellectual property. He is a certified Lean Silver and Six Sigma Black Belt. He is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and currently serves as the president of IISE Logistics and Supply Chain Division, director of Young Professionals Group, and founding director of Modeling and Simulation Division. Aqlan is also a member of American Society for Quality (ASQ), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) Society. He has received numerous awards including the IBM Vice President award for innovation excellence, Penn State Behrend’s School of Engineering Distinguished Award for Excellence in Research, and the Penn State Behrend’s Council of Fellows Faculty Research Award. Aqlan is the Principal Investigator and Director of the NSF RET Site in Manufacturing Simulation and Automation at Penn State Behrend.

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm (Saturday)

Hemendra Nath Roy

Supply Chain Superintendent, Manufacturing and Apparel Sourcing
Gildan
Baridhara Diplomatic Zone, Gulshan 2
Dhaka -1212
Bangladesh

Engg. Hemendra Nath Roy has completed his Bachelor of Industrial and Production Engineering (IPE) from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), a reputed public university in Bangladesh in the year of 2012. He has been engaging himself with diversified application based research and publication along with a dynamic professional career development at Gildan Bangladesh, a Canadian Apparel Manufacturing company. Around six research works have been published in different renowned journals and International conferences where the major research area were Implementation of different industrial Engineering tools and concept like Six Sigma, Multi-criteria base decision analysis, Data Analytics, Reverse logistic, Green Supply Chain to enhance the productivity and Supply Chain performance. Also he has been facilitating a good number of Technical sessions on key area of Industrial and System engineering in different university in Bangladesh. In the last 6 years of professional experience he has been proving himself as a diversified experienced person in Manufacturing & Supply chain dynamics, Operations Management, Project management, Sourcing, Procurement, service process improvement, Product development and commercial management. In addition, two successful Raw-material cost reduction projects, Establishment and implementation of Vendor Selection, Monitoring and Evaluation Process, Vendor managed JIT inventory controlling system are being accomplished/developed in his recent responsibilities as a Superintendent of Supply Chain Department.

Session IX: Global Engineering Education (Room – 1)

Session Chair:
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm (Saturday)

2:30 – 3:00 (Saturday)

ID 314 Intelligent Mobility Concentration for Undergraduate Students in Data Science and Business Analytics

Dr. Mustafa Ilhan Akbas

Department of Computer Science
Florida Polytechnic University
Lakeland, FL 33805, USA

Mustafa Ilhan Akbas is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science (CS) Department of Florida Polytechnic University. His research interests include Ad Hoc and Vehicular Networks, verification of Autonomous Vehicles, Internet of Things, Simulation and Modeling. Dr. Akbas has been teaching at every level of CS department and serving as the Academic Coordinator for the department. Prior to joining Florida Poly, Dr. Akbas was a research scholar at the University of Central Florida (UCF), where he participated in projects on simulation and modeling of cyber-physical systems and innovation networks. Dr. Akbas received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering, UCF. His BS and MS degrees are from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University. Dr. Akbas has industry experience in various international projects on communication networks. He serves as a member of the editorial board and of the technical program committee of IEEE journals and conferences. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Internet of Things and Complex Systems Society.

Dr. Shahram Taj

Department of Data Science and Business Analytics
Florida Polytechnic University
Lakeland, FL 33805, USA

Shahram Taj is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Data Science and Business Analytics at Florida Polytechnic University. Prior to joining Florida Poly, he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Management and Marketing at Lawrence Technological University in Michigan from 2013 to 2016. He is an accomplished academician, executive consultant, and with an expertise in business model innovation, lean and sustainable operations, strategic management, production systems design, systems optimization/simulation, and supply chain management. Dr. Shahram Taj was the Cameron Endowed Chair of Management and Marketing at the University of St. Thomas in Houston from 2008 to 2013. He previously taught at the University of Detroit Mercy from 1987 to 2008 and earned the University of Detroit Mercy President’s Award for Faculty Excellence. He also taught in the Global Entrepreneurial MBA Program at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan from 2004 to 2006 and was a visiting professor at Peking University in China teaching in the Beijing International MBA Program in 2004. Dr. Taj has conducted over 100 projects at Ford, Visteon, New Venture Gear, GM-Holden, and Baker Hughes. The projects have covered productivity improvements, implementing lean manufacturing, and optimizing process design.

3:00 – 3:30 (Saturday)

Mr. Abdul Mannan

Adjunct Professor
Department of Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT)
The University of the District of Columbia
4200 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC, USA

Progress and Obstacles in Software Development Process

Bio: Professor Abdul Mannan is an Adjunct Professor at Department of Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT), The University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC, USA. He is a Software Engineer at Social Security Administration. Mr. Mannan was a Software Developer at EDS, an HP Company for more than five years. He was a Software Engineer at CompSci Resources for three years. Mr. Mannan has earned Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from New York Institute of Technology, USA and Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh.

3:30 – 4:00 (Saturday)

Mohammad A Rahman, Ph.D.

Manufacturing and Construction Management
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, CT, USA

Dr. Mohammad Anwar Rahman is a faculty at the Central Connecticut State University in Manufacturing and Construction Management. He has published papers in referred journals and presented results in conferences. His research focuses on logistics, supply chain management, stochastic process and designing quality procedure. Dr. Rahman conducted several research projects with Mississippi Dept. of Education (MDE) and US Dept. of Transportation (USDOT). He has various certifications including Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (Purdue University), Lean Principles (Purdue University), Demonstrated Master Logistician (The International Society of Logistics), Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award Examiner (Louisiana Quality Foundation), and Certified Transportation & Logistics (American Society of Transport & Logistics). Dr. Rahman is affiliated with ISERC, DSI, AST&L and IEOM.

Session X: Global Engineering Education (Room – 1)
Session Chair:
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (Saturday)

4:30 – 5:00 (Saturday)

Dr. Oscar A. Vasquez-Bernal

Associate Professor
School of Basic Sciences, Technology and Engineering
Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
Bogotá Colombia

Oscar A. Vasquez-Bernal is an Associate Professor in the School of Basic Sciences, Technology and Engineering at Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, Bogotá Colombia. He earned his BS in industrial engineering from Universidad Antonio Nariño, Colombia, and his Master’s in business administration from UNAD Florida USA. He is presently a PhD candidate in engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has published several journal articles and conference papers. Professor Vasquez-Bernal has been involved in projects with manufacturing and engineering companies. He is a management consultant in quality assurance, project management and safety management. He has taught courses in entrepreneurship, strategy and corporate logistics and innovation for engineers; his research interests include certification, accreditation, multi-criteria decision analysis and optimisation. He is a member of NFPA, LACCEI and IEEE.

ID 212 Professional Certification Engineering: A Goal-Based and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach

Oscar Alejandro Vásquez-Bernal, School of Basic Sciences, Technology and Engineering, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia UNAD, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
Félix Antonio Cortés-Aldana, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia

5:00 – 5:30 (Saturday)

Dr. Faisal Aqlan

Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
Master of Manufacturing Management (MMM)
Penn State Behrend
Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

5:30 – 6:00 (Saturday)

Jefia Abigail Oghenevwegba

Department of Electrical and Information Engineering
Covenant University
Ogun State, Nigeria

Achieving Quality Engineering Education in Nigeria

Abigail Jefia is presently a senior at Covenant University where she majors in Information & Communication Engineering from the department of Electrical & Information Engineering with a concentration in Networking. In 2015, she worked as an IT Support intern at the Covenant University Network Office Centre where she developed her interest for networking. Afterwards, she interned with Telnet Nigeria Limited as a Network Analyst/Engineer in 2018, where she honed her network management skills and gained deeper insights into the various advancements towards networking. In 2018, Abigail obtained a Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA Routing and Switching) Certificate from the experience garnered from her internships. Her current research interests include Software-defined Networking and Cyber security.

Past Programs of IEOM Global Engineering Education

2014 IEOM Bali Global Engineering Education Speakers
2015 IEOM Dubai Global Engineering Education Speakers
2015 IEOM Orlando Global Engineering Education Speakers
2016 IEOM Kuala Lumpur Global Engineering Education Speakers
2016 IEOM Detroit Global Engineering Education Speakers
2017 IEOM Rabat Global Engineering Education Speakers
2017 IEOM Bristol (UK) GEE
2017 IEOM Bogota GEE
2018 IEOM Bandung GEE
2018 IEOM Paris GEE
2018 IEOM Washington DC GEE
2018 IEOM South Africa

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11th IEOM Global Engineering Education

Washington DC, USA Venue: UDC Campus September 27-29, 2018

Global Engineering Education Chairs

11th GEE IEOM DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

Thursday (September 27, 2018)

Dr. Jacqueline Chestnut

Adjunct Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering Department College of Engineering North Carolina A&T State University 1601 E. Market St Greensboro, NC

Dr. Bolanle Tolulope Abe

Senior Lecturer and Acting Academic Manager Department of Electrical Engineering Tshwane University of Technology eMalahleni campus, South Africa

Dr. Esther T. Ososanya

Professor and Chair University of the District of Columbia Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington DC 20008

Professor Sarma Yadavalli

Head Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa

Prof. Dr. Md. Nurul Absar Chowdhury

Professor Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering Islamic University of Technology (IUT Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704 Bangladesh