Panels
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Panel on Global Engineering Education
2:00 – 3:45 pm, March 8, Tuesday
Room – Virtual Room 6
Panel Chair
Dr. Ali Rıza Kaylan
Emeritus Professor of Industrial Engineering
Boğaziçi University
Istanbul, Turkey
Ali R. Kaylan is a professor emeritus of Industrial Engineering at Bogazici University in Istanbul. After completing his undergraduate studies in 1973 in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Bogazici University, he pursued his graduate studies in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Syracuse University in the U.S.A. He has received his M.S. degree in 1975 and Ph.D. in 1979 both from the same University. He joined the Industrial Engineering Department of Bogazici University in 1979. He was promoted to full professorship in 1990. He served as the founding Chair of the Engineering and Technology Management graduate program at Bogazici University for 18 years.
He has served as the Industrial Engineering Department Chair and the Information Technology Director of the Bogazici University. He was elected as the Engineering Dean for two terms during 2000-2006. During that period, he was a member of the Steering Committee of the Turkish Engineering Deans Council. He was elected as the General Secretary of this Council for the period December 2003 – May 2006. Being a founder member of the Turkish Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs, he participates as an evaluator in the accreditation process of Industrial Engineering Programs in Turkey.
Prof. Kaylan has also been active in KalDer, the Turkish Quality Society. He was the President of this Society during 2008-2010. Besides, during his membership in the Executive Committee for 12 years, he has served as the Chairman of the National Quality Award Steering Committee.
Panel Speaker I
Necati Aras, Ph.D.
Professor
Boğaziçi University
Department of Industrial Engineering
İstanbul, Turkey
Dr. Aras has been actively involved in ABET accreditation process at Boğaziçi University as the coordinator of the Industrial Engineering Department. He has been a Program Evaluator of the Industrial Engineering Programs on MÜDEK (Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs) since 2009, and served as a team chair/co-chair since 2018. He has been a member of MÜDEK since 2016 and recently been appointed as the Vice-Chair of the MÜDEK Executive Board.
Necati Aras graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Industrial Engineering at Boğaziçi University in 1993 with a B.Sc. degree. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 1994 and 1993, respectively, from the Department of Industrial Engineering at the same University. During 1994-2000 period, he worked for six years in the private sector first as a quality assurance engineer in a white goods manufacturing company and then in a training and consulting company.He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University during 2000-2002. He joined the Department of Industrial Engineering in 2003 and has been a faculty member since then. He worked as a visiting researcher at Boston College during 2013-2014 academic year. He was the chair of the department from January 2018 to September 2019, and vice provost of Boğaziçi University from March 2019 to December 2020. His current research interests include formulating and solving optimization models in different areas including supply chain, facility location, logistics and distribution. His most recent area of research focuses on the use of data analytics methods for increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of metaheuristic solution approaches. He has published more than 60 papers in scholarly journals.
Panel Speaker II
Prof. Şirin Tekinay
Chair, Global Engineering Deans Council
Prof. Tekinay has held posts of academic administration as Dean of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Vice President for Research and Development, and Rector. Prior to her tenure in Istanbul and Sharjah the last decade, she lived in the United States where she served as Program Director at the US National Science Foundation; she was tenured faculty at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Director of NJ Center for Wireless Telecommunications. In addition to her core area of research and teaching wireless communication networks and related areas, she has been working in and teaching different aspects of Higher Education and Engineering Education, such as diversity, multi-disciplinarity, professional identity, technology based learning platforms, and most recently, virtualization. She is the elected 2018-2022 Chair of the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) and a Board Member of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI). Before starting her academic career, she was a researcher at Bell Laboratories. Prof. Tekinay holds the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from George Mason University, Virginia, and the MS and BS degrees in Electrical-Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University, and high school diploma from Robert College, Istanbul.
Panel Speaker III
Prof. Dr. Erhan Erkut
Vice Rector
MEF University
İstanbul, Turkey
Erhan Erkut received his BSc degree in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University in 1980, and his PhD from the University of Florida in 1986. While teaching at the University of Alberta School of Business he received 10 teaching awards, including the “INFORMS Teaching of Management Science Practice Award” and the “3M Teaching Fellowship,” 5 practice awards from the Canadian Operational Research Society, and published over 50 refereed journal articles. In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Erkut also managed several industrial projects, established a technology transfer unit called Centre for Excellence in Operations and served as the Founding Editor of INFORMS Transactions in Education.
After returning to Turkey in 2005, Dr. Erkut served as the Dean of Bilkent’s Faculty of Business during 2005-2007 and as the Founding President of Ozyegin University during 2008-2013. Since 2014 he serves as the Vice President of MEF University, in charge of academic programs, student life, industrial and international relations. More recently he has been quite active in entrepreneurship and workplace skills development for high school and university students. He has helped in the professional development of thousands of students through a 21st century skills camp with the support of Mehmet Zorlu Foundation and MEF University. Dr. Erkut authored three books in Turkish, one on evaluating universities for candidates (As you Select a University), one on Turkish entrepreneurs (Here are the Gazelles), and the most recent one on the upcoming disruption in education (The System is Hopeless, Education is on You).
Panel Speaker IV
Prof. Berna Dengiz
Dean of Engineering Faculty
Başkent University
Ankara, Turkey
Prof. Dr. Berna Dengiz is the dean of Engineering Faculty at Başkent University. A graduate of Gazi University, she completed graduate study at Middle East Technical University, and in 1987 earned a doctorate in industrial engineering at Gazi University. In 1994, under a scholarship awarded by the NATO-B2 program, Dr. Dengiz conducted research in the US at the University of Pittsburgh. During the years 1996-2002, as a visiting professor at Pittsburgh University and Auburn University, conducted research under the sponsorship of TÜBİTAK, and the US National Science Foundation of USA. She began working in the Department of Industrial Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering at Başkent University in 2005, and currently serves as dean.
Dr. Dengiz has conducted research in fields such as complex systems simulation, simulation optimization, meta heuristic optimization of large-scale systems, and industrial applications using deep learning, with funding from national and international institutions such as the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), Government Planning Center of Türkiye (DPT), GU and Başkent University BAP, and the National Science Foundation of USA. She has published, nationally and internationally, a total of around 160 research articles, conference reports, and book chapters, and has been cited in over 2600 works.
Dr. Dengiz has served in various capacities on numerous national and international committees and boards, such as Advisor to the Central Bank of Turkey for General Directorate for Information Management, Statistics and Economic Monitoring, as a member of the steering committee for the Council of Engineering Deans, and as a member of the TUBİTAK Engineering Research Group Advisory Committee.
For her contributions to the fields of operations research and management science, and her research on topics concerning women engineers, in 2011 she received the Women in Operations Research and Management Science (WORMS) award by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). In addition, she was awarded “Leading Woman in Science” by the Turkish Association of University Women, and received the “Woman of Science” award by the International Federation of Business and Professional Women.
Panel Speaker V
Halil Kulluk
Founder and Chairman
Intekno Group of Companies
İstanbul, Turkey
Halil Kulluk is the Founder and Chairman of Intekno Group of Companies. He received his B.Sc. in Production Engineering and Management from the University of Nottingham, England, and his M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering and Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). During 1984-1986 he worked as a Research Engineer and System Scientist in the Robotics Institute of CMU. Later, he was appointed Director of Flexible Manufacturing Laboratory and became the co-principal investigator of “Factory of the Future for Small and Medium Sized Manufacturers” project which was supported by Ben Franklin Partnership of Pennsylvania. In 1988, he founded the Manufacturing and Engineering Technology Application Center (METAC) within the Robotics Institute and served as the Director of the Center for five years. At METAC, he was actively involved in the creation and application of technology transfer models between the university and industry in the fields of robotics, computer integrated manufacturing, artificial intelligence and expert systems. He was also appointed Adjunct Professor by the Department of Mechanical Engineering where he taught in the area of manufacturing sciences. In 1987, Kulluk founded International Technology & Knowledge Company, Inc. (Intekno) in Pittsburgh. This spin-off company from Carnegie Mellon University acted as the foundation for Intekno Technology Transfer Corporation which was later started by Kulluk, in Istanbul, as a result of growing activities between the U.S.A. and Turkey. Hence, these two start-ups created the initial pillars for the formation of Intekno Group. At present, Intekno Group conducts business activities between U.S.A, Europe, Middle East and Turkey via the main fields of engineering & technology transfer – including construction and technical services, international trade, and venture investments. Halil Kulluk has been an Executive Advisor for PNC Bank of USA for activities related to the US Exim Bank in Turkey between 1999 – 2019 and since 2011 he has been Executive Advisor of Parsons Corporation in Turkey. He was chairman of the Advisory Board for AIESEC Istanbul branch and the Founding Advisory Board Member of Rumi Research and Application Center at Selcuk University in Konya, Turkey. In August 2007, he was elected to the Advisory Board of the Executive Entrepreneurship Program supported by Qatar Science and Technology Park and Carnegie Mellon University in Doha, Qatar. He is also the Immediate Past Chairman of Business Advisory Council for South Eastern Europe (BACSEE). Since 1997 he has been a member of DEİK (Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey) and chairman of several country specific business councils. Currently, he is the chairman of DEIK’s Turkey – Finland Business Council. He speaks English and French fluently. He is married and has two children.
Women in Industry and Academia (WIIA) Panel
4:00 – 5:45 pm, March 8, Tuesday
Room – Virtual Room 6
Chair
Prof.Dr. Funda Sivrikaya Serifoglu
Advisor to the President of Istanbul Aydin University
and
Founding President of TULIP
Prof. Dr. Funda Sivrikaya Serifoglu is currently working as the advisor to the President of the Board of Trustees of Istanbul Aydin University, as a professional Adler coach, as a social entrepreneur, as a leader in woman leadership projects, and as a voluntary mentor in several social programs. She is a founding member of the Women Studies Unit at the Higher Education Council of Turkey. She also serves as a team leader in institutional evaluation and institutional accreditation programs of the Turkey Higher Education Quality Council.
She is the founding president of Duzce Technopark and the founding rector of Duzce University, Turkey, which is ranked among the 50 most innovative and entrepreunerial universities of Turkey. The university is founded on the principle to utilize the scientific knowledge in project partnerships with stakeholders to support the sustainable development of the region and to contribute to the welfare of the people living therein. It has been awarded the European Entrepreunership Award in May 2011 with one such project.
Prof.Dr. Sivrikaya Serifoglu served as the project coordinator of the pioneering strategic planning project in Turkey for sustainable development at the province level in Duzce. In addition, she led various pioneering projects and programs including, but not limited to education, woman leadership, accountability, endangered languages, social security, health, disadvantaged people, and so on.
Prof.Dr. Sivrikaya Serifoglu is also the founding president of IWF Turkey, which is the Turkey chapter of International Women’s Forum, a leading women leadership network with over 7000 members across six continents. She visited several European Union (EU) institutions as an invited guest by the European Parliament and the European Commision within the European Union Visitors Programme (EUVP) in 2008. She was also invited to take part in the State Visitor Leadership Programme of the American Government in 2010.
Prof.Dr. Funda Sivrikaya Serifoglu received her B.S. (valedictorian) and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Boğaziçi University, Turkey, and her M.S. degree in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University, USA. She has publications in international and national scientific journals, and has also served as both an editor and a reviewer for scientific journals.
She has been awarded Women Who Make A Difference Award by International Women’s Forum in 2015, International Caucasian Award by the International Caucasian Association in 2018, and The Special Award by the Women Who Shatter The Glass Ceiling Platform in 2018. Prof.Dr. Funda Sivrikaya Serifoglu is married and has a daughter and a son, of ages 29 and 23, respectively.
Panel Speaker I
Prof. Dr. Aytül Erçil
Professor of Computer Vision
Sabancı University
Istanbul, Turkey
Prof. Erçil has received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Mathematics from Boğaziçi University in 1979, M.S. and PhD in Applied Math from Brown University in 1980 and 1983 respectively. She has then worked at General Research Laboratories for five years as senior research scientist and staff research scientist. She has been a faculty member and founding director of BUPAM Pattern Analysis and Machine Vision Laboratory at Boğazici University in 1988-2001 and has been a faculty member and founding director of VPALAB Computer vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory at Sabancı University in 2001-2013. Prof. Erçil has directed many international projects (Nato, FP4, Eureka, NSF, FP6, Nedo, FP7, Horizon 2020). She has been the founding president of TOTIAD – Turkish Pattern REcognition and Image Analysis Society and executive board member of IAPR, International Association of Pattern Recognition. Her work has received many awards including ‘International Achievement award, Eureka Success story, Endeavor Entrepreneur, Technology award finalist, Veuve Clicquot high impact female entrepreneur of the year award – Turkish representative, First price in Machines and Accessories Production Technologies award, ‘Turkey’s female entrepreneur’ award, ‘Crystal Tree woman entrepreneur of the year’ award, ‘ANSIAD academician of the year’ award, “Microsoft Woman leader in Information Technologies” award, Selcuk Yasar “entrepreneurship, innovation” award, ‘EY Startup of the Year Award’, IWEC Foundation 2020 Business award, META Women in Tech award. She is a board member at Nobel Pharmacy, member of Allianz International Advisory board, member of Swiss Innovation Valley advisory board and a member of the joint scientific and industrial advisory board of European Machine Vision Association.
Prof. Ercil was the founding person and CEO of Vistek A.Ş. since 2006 which was acquired by ISRA Vision A.G. in 2013. She is currently co-founder and co-CEO of Vispera A.Ş and co-founder of Rebuslabs Ltd. She is also a certified angel investor and a board member at Kagider – women entrepreneurs organization – Turkey.
Panel Speaker II
Dr. Melsa Ararat
Founding Director of Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey (CGFT)
Professor, School of Management
Sabanci University
Istanbul, Turkey
Dr. Melsa Ararat, the founding director of Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey (CGFT) and a professor at Sabanci University School of Management, is a corporate governance (CG) expert with more than 20 years experience in CG reforms and practices, with emphasis on family controlled conglomerates and international joint ventures. She was a member of the CG Committee, which developed CG Principles issued by the Capital Markets Board of Turkey in 2003, and an advisor to S&P’s Governance Services between 2004 and 2008. Currently a scholar of Corporate Governance and Business Ethics, she has a corporate background and has held senior management and board positions in Turkey, the Benelux, Singapore and Japan within Philips group prior to her academic career.
Listed in Marquis Who’s Who as an educator, Dr. Ararat’s scholarly background is Management and Strategy. She is actively involved in policy work as a consultant to the World Bank Group since 2004. She is an academic member of ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), a member of NSFM (Network for Sustainable Financial Markets), an advisory member of UN PRI SSE (Principles of Responsible Investing-Sustainable Stock Exchanges), an advisory board member of CBI (Climate Bond Initiative) and an active member of ICGN (International Corporate Governance Network). She sits in ICGN’s Awards Committee and Business Ethics Committee. Dr. Ararat is the director of Independent Women Directors Project and Business Against Domestic Violence Project in Turkey.
Dr. Ararat’s research and commentaries on CG and sustainable investing in Turkey are the most often cited. She coordinates IFC supported global EMCGN (Corporate Governance Emerging Markets Research Network), which brings together the leading scholars and practitioners since 2007 in support of CG reforms in emerging economies. Dr. Ararat also chairs the Academic Board of TKYD (Corporate Governance Association of Turkey).
Dr. Ararat’s specific expertise includes Sustainable Investing. She launched the CDP Climate Change Project in Turkey in 2009 and CDP Water Project in 2015. She authored Sustainable Investing in Turkey and Sustainable Investing in Key Emerging Markets in 2010 and assisted Borsa Istanbul in revitalising the Sustainability Index project prior to its launch in 2014. She leads the local analysts that assess sustainability performance of the firms included in the Index.
Panel Speaker III
Dr. Paula Carroll
Associate Professor
School of Business
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
Paula’s background is in electrical engineering (Kevin St., DIT, 1986). She has an MSc in Computer Science (DCU, 1996) and a Masters in Management Science from the Smurfit School of Business (UCD, 2005). Her PhD was in the field of Combinatorial Optimisation. Her PhD thesis was titled “The Ring Spur Assignment Problem”. Paula has considerable experience in both academia and industry. Prior to joining UCD she worked as a Software Developer with the ESB (Ireland’s semi-state electricity company), in Quality Assurance with DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) and in Business Planning and Management (an MIS role) with eir (Ireland’s former incumbent telco). She has also lectured in DCU. Paula was academic director of the Bachelor of Commerce (International) programme from 2013 – 2017. She is founder and chair of the EURO WISDOM Forum to promote, support, empower, and encourage the participation of all genders in Operations Research (OR) and Management Science (MS). OR&MS are advanced analytical techniques to model and solve challenging real world problems. EURO is the Association of European Operational Research Societies.
Panel Speaker IV
Prof. Dr. Rana Sanyal
Department of Chemistry Professor
Center for Life Sciences & Technologies Manager
Boğaziçi University
Co-Founder & CSO, RS Research
Istanbul, Turkey
Prof. Sanyal graduated from Bogazici University with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and continued her studies at Boston University on synthetic organic chemistry and received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry. Prof. Sanyal started her career as a research scientist in Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, where she gained extensive experience in medicinal chemistry. Since 2004, she is a faculty member at the Department of Chemistry at Bogazici University. Her current research interests focus on biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, including targeted polymer drug conjugates. She has received L’Oreal Turkey for Women in Science, Novartis Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry Drug Design, Promising Woman Entrepreneur of Turkey and Turkish National Academy of Sciences Young Investigator awards. Prof. Sanyal has been named one of the three Cartier Women’s Initiative 2021 Global Science and Technology Pioneer Award fellows. She is an inventor or co-inventor of over 50 issued patents or pending applications. Since 2013, she is the director of the Center for Life Sciences and Technologies, an international center of excellence, at Bogazici University. Rana Sanyal is also the Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of RS Research, a biotechnology start-up developing novel nanomedicines, established to enable preclinical research advance to the clinic.
Panel Speaker V
Dr. Zümbül Atan
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management
OPAC Group (Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control)
Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands
Research Director of the European Supply Chain Forum’s FMCG Community
Zümbül Atan is an associate professor of supply chain management in the OPAC group (Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control) of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). She is the Research Director of the European Supply Chain Forum’s FMCG Community. Zümbül’s research is broadly focused on multi-echelon inventory theory, retail operations and revenue management. Zümbül has conducted a large number of projects with industry mainly through Master students. Her research is published in leading journals (including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, IISE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research). Zümbül chairs the Dutch Operational Management and Logistics Conference and she has been in the scientic committees of multiple international conferences. She has earned multiple university- and departmental-level teaching awards.
Presidential Panel on
“The role of professional societies in serving the professions and providing opportunities for re-training and continuing education”
6:00 – 7:45 pm, Tuesday, March 8
Panel Chair:
Professor Hamid Parsaei, Ph.D., PE
Fellow, IISE, ASEE, SME, IEOM
Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Interim Director, College of Engineering Accreditation and Assessment
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, USA
IEOM President, 2021-2023; IEOM Vice President, 2019-2021
Dr. Hamid R. Parsaei is an internationally recognized leader in the field of manufacturing automation, leadership, engineering education, additive manufacturing, economic and financial decision making, and project management with more than three decades of experience in academia. He is awarded as a fellow IISE, ASEE, SME and IEOM.
Dr. Parsaei’s leadership experience and accomplishments include serving as Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ.) He also served as the Director of Outreach and Accreditation and the Interim Chair of the Mechanical Engineering at TAMUQ while holding the rank of Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Prior to joining Texas A&M University, Dr. Parsaei served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering at University of Houston for 10 years and Director of Graduate Studies and Graduate Advisor for five years. He also served as Director of the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center’s Gulf Coast Region from March 2001 to September 2005.
Dr. Parsaei is highly regarded worldwide for his scholarship. He served as Area Editor, Methodology, and as an editorial board of The Engineering Economist from June 1990 until January 1995, and he was editor in chief of three international refereed archival journals. He currently serves as a member of the editorial boards and associate editor to over fifteen peer-refereed journals. He has been guest editor for several special issues of peer-reviewed archival journals, and has served as series editor to nine book series published by Wiley and Sons, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, and several other publishing houses. His newest journal, Engineering Education Letters is a clear testament to Dr. Parsaei’s dedication to engineering education.
Dr. Parsaei has been principal and co-principal investigator on projects funded by NSF, Qatar Foundation, the US Department of Homeland Security, Texas Department of Transportation, Houston Transtar, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Institute of Safety and Health, among others, with total funding in excess of $24 million. He has authored or co-authored 26 archival books and over 280 refereed publications that appear in archival journals and conference proceedings.
He has received several prestigious recognitions from IISE including, the Wellington Award (1993) from the Engineering Economy Division of the Institute for his original contributions to the field of engineering economics, Award of Merit in recognition of his service to the Engineering Economy Division during 1991–1992, the 2006 UPS Excellence Award for innovative development of programs directed to the development of women, minorities and people with disabilities within the field of industrial engineering. He garnered the 2016 George L. Smith Award and in 2018, he was honored with the Fred C. Crane Award for meritorious service to the IISE.
Dr. Parsaei received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from Western Michigan University and the University of Texas at Arlington, respectively. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas and an ABET Engineering Accreditation Commissioner and Program Evaluator.
Panel Speaker I
Dr. Adedeji Badiru
Dean
Graduate School of Engineering and Management
Air Force Institute of Technology
Wright-Patterson AFB
Ohio, USA
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 University
Panel Speaker II
Dr. Waldemar Karwowski
Pegasus Professor and Chairman
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida, USA
Waldemar Karwowski is Pegasus Professor and Chairman, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida, USA. He holds an M.S. in Production Engineering and Management from the University of Technology Wroclaw, Poland, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University, USA. He was awarded D.Sc. in management science by the Institute for Organization and Management in Industry, Warsaw, and received the National Professorship title from the President of Poland (2012). Three Central European universities also awarded him Doctor Honoris Causa degrees. Dr. Karwowski served on the Board on Human Systems Integration, National Research Council, USA (2007–2011). He currently is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science journal, Editor-in-Chief of Human-Intelligent Systems Integration journal, and Field Chief Editor of the Frontiers in Neuroergonomics. Dr. Karwowski has over 550 research publications, including over 200 journal papers. He is Fellow of the Ergonomics Society (U.K.), Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), and the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), and served as President of both HFES (2006-2007) and IEA (2000-2003). He received the William Floyd Award from the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors, the United Kingdom in 2017, and the David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award. Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, Atlanta, USA, in 2020. He was elected to Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL), Orlando, Florida, USA, November 2020.
Panel Speaker III
Dr. Abu Masud, P.E.
Emeritus Professor
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Wichita State University
Kansas, USA
Dr. Abu Masud is an emeritus professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Wichita State University. He was named the Boeing Global Engineering Professor at Wichita State University. Dr. Masud advanced the College of Engineering’s strategic alliances for global enrichment and experiential learning of students as well as international research collaborations and partnerships. He received Duane and Velma Wallace Outstanding Educator Award from WSU College of Engineering. Previously he was held various positions at Wichita State including dean and associate dean of graduate school (2008-2013), coordinator, college ABET affairs (2006-2008), associate dean, college of engineering (2004-2005), chair, industrial and manufacturing engineering department (1994-2004) and graduate coordinator of IME (1991-94, 1996-98, 2001-2004). Dr. Masud has engaged with various companies and governmental research centers including NASA Langley Research Center, VA, NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow (1991 and 1992), Boeing, Consulting Analyst, and Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research. He is member of Accreditation Review Council (2011-2014). Dr. Masud published book, book chapters, and numerous journal and conference papers. He is registered Professional Engineer at Kansas State. Dr. Masud is an IIE fellow. He received Ph.D. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University, and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology.
Panel Speaker VI
Dr. Gündüz Ulusoy
Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering
Sabancı University
Turkey
Gündüz Ulusoy received his BSc in mechanical engineering from Robert College, Istanbul in 1970; an MSc in mechanical engineering from the University of Rochester in 1972 and a Ph.D. in operations research from Virginia Tech in 1975. He served in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Boğaziçi University in Istanbul as a faculty member (1976-1999) and as Head of Department (1985-1993). He also served as Vice President of Boğaziçi University (1992-1994). In 1983, he worked as a postgraduate research fellow in the Operational Research Department in Lancaster University. He spent a year on leave from Boğaziçi University in the industry. He was a member of the Executive Board of the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council (1993-1997) and Chairman of the Executive Board of the Marmara Research Center (1995-1997). He served on the Executive Board of the Turkish Quality Association (1998-2002) and chaired its Quality Award Committee (1998-2002). He also served on the Board of Boğaziçi University Alumni Association (1988-1991) and the Board of Elginkan Foundation (1994-2000). He is a founding member of the Science Foundation and the Turkish Informatics Foundation.
In 1999 he joined the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabancı University and established the Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program. He founded and became the Co-Coordinator of the Leaders for Industry Program (2001-2004). He founded the TUSIAD-Sabancı University Competitiveness Forum and served as its Director (2003-2008). He was a member of the Standing Committee on Sustainable Competitiveness of the Manufacturing Industry established by the Office of the Prime Minister of Turkey (2007-2010). Since 2015 he has served as an Emeritus Professor at Sabancı University.
He received Teaching Awards at Boğaziçi University and Sabancı University.
In collaboration with TUSIAD and the related Trade Associations, he studied competitive strategies and sectoral benchmarking in the Turkish automotive, cement, electronics, white goods, and machine manufacturing industries. He conducted research on technology and new product development management in the Turkish automotive parts and components industry and on the new product development capability of the Turkish electronics industry. As a UNICE Competitiveness Working Group member in Brussels, he contributed to its competitiveness, entrepreneurship, and innovation research.
His primary research areas are competitiveness, innovation, digitalization and manufacturing strategies, and project management and scheduling. He has published research articles in Interfaces, Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, IIE Transactions, International Journal of Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, Computers & OR, and Frontiers of Engineering Management.
He was an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Operational Research (1981-2000), and Contributing Editor to the International Abstracts in Operational Research (1978-1992), Chief Editor of the Turkish Journal of Operational Research (1983-1985), and served as the Guest Editor for several academic journals.
In 2021, the textbook he co-authored with Öncü Hazır and titled An Introduction to Project Modeling and Planning was published by Springer Nature.
Panel on Industry 4.0
2:00 – 3:45 pm, March 9, Wednesday
Room – Virtual Room 6
Panel Chair
Dr. Gündüz Ulusoy
Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering
Sabancı University
Turkey
Gündüz Ulusoy received his BSc in mechanical engineering from Robert College, Istanbul in 1970; an MSc in mechanical engineering from the University of Rochester in 1972 and a Ph.D. in operations research from Virginia Tech in 1975. He served in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Boğaziçi University in Istanbul as a faculty member (1976-1999) and as Head of Department (1985-1993). He also served as Vice President of Boğaziçi University (1992-1994). In 1983, he worked as a postgraduate research fellow in the Operational Research Department in Lancaster University. He spent a year on leave from Boğaziçi University in the industry. He was a member of the Executive Board of the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council (1993-1997) and Chairman of the Executive Board of the Marmara Research Center (1995-1997). He served on the Executive Board of the Turkish Quality Association (1998-2002) and chaired its Quality Award Committee (1998-2002). He also served on the Board of Boğaziçi University Alumni Association (1988-1991) and the Board of Elginkan Foundation (1994-2000). He is a founding member of the Science Foundation and the Turkish Informatics Foundation.
In 1999 he joined the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabancı University and established the Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program. He founded and became the Co-Coordinator of the Leaders for Industry Program (2001-2004). He founded the TUSIAD-Sabancı University Competitiveness Forum and served as its Director (2003-2008). He was a member of the Standing Committee on Sustainable Competitiveness of the Manufacturing Industry established by the Office of the Prime Minister of Turkey (2007-2010). Since 2015 he has served as an Emeritus Professor at Sabancı University.
He received Teaching Awards at Boğaziçi University and Sabancı University.
In collaboration with TUSIAD and the related Trade Associations, he studied competitive strategies and sectoral benchmarking in the Turkish automotive, cement, electronics, white goods, and machine manufacturing industries. He conducted research on technology and new product development management in the Turkish automotive parts and components industry and on the new product development capability of the Turkish electronics industry. As a UNICE Competitiveness Working Group member in Brussels, he contributed to its competitiveness, entrepreneurship, and innovation research.
His primary research areas are competitiveness, innovation, digitalization and manufacturing strategies, and project management and scheduling. He has published research articles in Interfaces, Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, IIE Transactions, International Journal of Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, Computers & OR, and Frontiers of Engineering Management.
He was an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Operational Research (1981-2000), and Contributing Editor to the International Abstracts in Operational Research (1978-1992), Chief Editor of the Turkish Journal of Operational Research (1983-1985), and served as the Guest Editor for several academic journals.
In 2021, the textbook he co-authored with Öncü Hazır and titled An Introduction to Project Modeling and Planning was published by Springer Nature.
Panel Speaker I
Heiko Schwindt
Vice President Sales
Bosch Connected Industry
Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Bosch Connected Industry
Heiko Schwindt has been responsible for sales, marketing, consulting and partner management at Bosch Connected Industry since June 2020. This division of Robert Bosch Manufacturing Solutions GmbH offers customers across different industries a comprehensive software and service portfolio for digital manufacturing and logistics.
Before assuming this role, Heiko served as Vice President of Bosch Rexroth’s Automation & Electrification Solutions business unit at Bosch Rexroth Corporation in USA from September 2017 through May 2020
He joined Bosch Rexroth in 2000 and has held several roles including VP Service Industrial Applications, VP Industry Sector Machine Tools and Automotive, VP Product Areas Tightening and Welding Systems, and Director System Development Machine Tools. Prior to that, he was CTO of an engineering company for automation systems in Germany for 12 years.
During his long-term career in industrial production he gathered comprehensive experience in automation and IIoT solutions for the Factory of the Future.
Heiko Schwindt holds a Bachelor and Master of Science degree in Telecommunication and Automation from the University of Bremen, Germany.
Panel Speaker II
Haldun Dingec
Production Technologies Director
Arçelik Global
İstanbul, Turkey
He received his BSc and MSc degrees in mechanical engineering from ODTÜ. He started his career as a Product Engineer in the Quality Assurance Department of Arçelik Refrigerator Plant in 1993, and he was appointed as System Engineer in 1995, Product Development Engineer in 1996 and System Design Team Leader in 1998. In 2003, he was appointed as Quality Assurance Manager at S.C. Arctic S.A., and he worked as Production Manager at Arctic S.A in 2004-2006, R&D Manager of Refrigerator Plant in 2006-2012, Defy Appliances Pty Ltd. Product and Production Technologies Director in 2012-2013, Dishwasher Product Director in 2013-2016 and as Refrigerator Product Director in 2016 – 2019. He has been serving as Production Technologies Director since 2019 and managing the digital journey of Arcelik technology group.
Dingeç, born in Eskişehir in 1969, is married and has 3 children.
Panel Speaker III
Efe Erdem
Executive Director
MEXT Technology Center
MESS (Turkish Employers’ Association of Metal Industries)
Istanbul, Turkey
Efe Erdem has been the Executive Director of MEXT Technology Center at MESS (Turkish Employers’ Association of Metal Industries) since December 2018. He led the establishment of the Technology Center from concept phase to operationalization. The Center is focusing on the digital transformation of the industry by providing companies with a comprehensive up-skilling program, technical advisory services, access to a state-of-the-art Digital Factory and an extensive ecosystem of partners including technology companies, universities, and start-ups.
At the same time, he is the Director of the WEF (World Economic Forum) Affiliate Center for Fourth Industrial Revolution in Turkey, which acts as a public-private collaboration platform for technology governance.
In addition, he is currently leading the ‘New Generation Industry’ Working Group at TÜSİAD (Turkish Industry & Business Association).
Prior to this, he was Head of Innovation at Ford Otosan and led all company initiatives regarding corporate entrepreneurship and open innovation. In that capacity, he was also a member of the company’s Executive Committee. Previously, he held various roles in Product Development such as Commercial Vehicles Program Management and Powertrain Systems Integration in Turkey and the UK, as well as Manufacturing Engineering. He graduated from Industrial Engineering Department of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and holds a Master’s degree in Management Sciences from London School of Economics (LSE).
Panel Speaker IV
Turgut Çiçek
Quality & Manufacturing Engineering Director
TEI – TUSAŞ Engine Industries, Inc.
Eskişehir, Turkey
Turgut Cicek was born in Eskisehir, Turkey in 1976. He received his Mechanical Engineering BS degree in 1997 from Anadolu University (Eskisehir, Turkey), following his technical high school education at the Aircraft Engine Maintenance Department between 1989-1993. He received his MS degree from Osmangazi University (Eskişehir, Turkey) in Mechanical Engineering in 2000 and earned his MBA degree from İstanbul Bilgi University in 2015.
Mr. Cicek’s professional career started at 1st Air Supply and Maintenance Center, Modernization Department as Project Engineer in 1997. After this, in 1999, he began to work as Process Engineer at TUSAS Engine Industries. Then, he had respectively held the Manufacturing Engineering Leader and Manufacturing Engineering Manager positions. Since 2012 he has been working as the Quality and Manufacturing Engineering Director, leading manufacturing, quality, special process, and NDT engineering teams. His department is responsible for project management and new product introductions (NPI) for several aircraft engine programs, serial production engineering support, manufacturing process improvements, investment management, new technology implementations including industry 4.0 applications, new product and project quotations, assurance of quality systems and total quality activities. He is also a Board Member of Gürmetal Hassas Döküm Sanayi A.Ş., which is a subsidiary of TUSAS Engine Industries.
Panel Speaker V
Murat Ateş
Digital Transformation Director
Maxion Wheels Turkey Operations
Istanbul, Turkey
Murat Ateş has been the Digital Transformation Director of Maxion Wheels Turkey Operations since November 2018. Previously, he was assigned as the Digital Transformation Managerin that same Company. He has been responsible for the construction, machinery, electrical systems, utilities, and commissioning of two plants of Maxion Wheels. He was involved in installing the energy monitoring system and its combination with the MES system; automation and SCADA system for all machinery; redesign and revision of 70 casting machines; installation of the maintenance organization and management system. Mr. Ateş has managed 46 digitalization projects such as traceability, energy analitic, predictive maintenance, visual defect detection, etc. Mr. Murat Ateş was employed in that Company beginning in 2005 as a maintenance engineer, and later as Maintenance Chief and Maintenance Director. In 2004-2005, he was an electrical maintenance engineer at Ege Endüstri. He has a BSc degree in Electronics Engineering from Erciyes University.
Panel on Global Supply Chain and Logistics
2:00 – 3:45 pm, March 9, Wednesday
Room – Virtual Room 5
Panel Chair
Prof. Dr. Gülçin Büyüközkan
Dean of Engineering and Technology Faculty
Head of Industrial Engineering Department
Galatasaray University
İstanbul, Turkey
Logistics Association (LODER) Vice President
Prof. Dr. Gülçin Büyüközkan received her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1993, her master’s degrees from ENSGI (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Génie Industriel) in France in 1996, and Boğaziçi University in 1997. She continued her doctoral thesis studies in Industrial Engineering in INPG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble) Grenoble, France, thanks to the overseas doctoral scholarship given to her by the Council of Higher Education. Benefiting from the Région Rhône Alpes European Union Doctoral Scholarship, Dr. Büyüközkan also worked at Université Laval, Québec, Canada during her thesis studies.
Professor Büyüközkan has been working as a researcher and instructor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Galatasaray University since 1994. She is the head of the department since 2015 and has been appointed as the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology since 2020.
Being a member of the Board of the Logistics Association (LODER) since 2008, Prof. Büyüközkan served as the Chairman of LODER (March 2013-March 2016), Vice-Chairman of LODER (March 2010-March 2013/March 2016-Today), and Secretary-General of LODER (March 2008-March 2010). She is actually the editor of Logistics Journal and LODER Bulletin and has been also writing columns in this journal and bulletin. Prof. Büyüközkan leads the activities of the Supply Chain Professionals Club (SCP Club), of which LODER is a founding partner. On the behalf of LODER, she organizes professional events on automation and legal regulations for supply chains. She takes an active role in developing Logistics System Standards (LSS) carried out in cooperation with LODER and BM Trada.
Prof. Büyüközkan’s research interests include logistics and supply chain management, digital transformation, sustainability, new product development, multi-criteria decision-making, and the application of intelligent techniques in these areas. She worked as a project manager or coordinator in several European Union and TUBITAK projects. She has authored or coauthored more than 100 SCI-E articles in journals, such as the International Journal of Production Research, the International Journal of Production Economics, Production Planning & Control, Information Sciences, Applied Soft Computing, Computers in Industry, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Expert Systems with Applications, Soft Computing, Energy, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Transportation Research Part D-Transport and Environment, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Journal of Air Transport Management, Measurement, International Journal of Intelligent Systems.
Prof. Büyüközkan provides consultancy and industrial trainings on various subjects such as strategic management, logistics and supply chain management, digital transformation, strategic consultancy services focused on establishing innovative systems, system improvement, technology, and digitalization.
Panel Speakers
Prof. Dr. Elif Kongar
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research
School of Engineering
Fairfield University
Connecticut, USA
Dr. Elif Kongar is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the School of Engineering at Fairfield University. She also holds a Lecturer position at Yale School of Management. Prior to these appointments, Dr. Kongar was Professor of Technology Management and Mechanical Engineering and Chair of the Technology Management Department at the School of Engineering at the University of Bridgeport (UB). During her tenure at UB, she established several research programs, graduate concentrations and coursework in interdisciplinary areas including predictive analytics, data visualization, statistical analysis, supply chain management and logistics, simulation and modeling, economic and environmental sustainability, and service management and engineering. Dr. Kongar is Founding Director of the Ph.D. Program in Technology Management at UB–the only Ph.D. program of its kind in the Northeast; and one out of a handful of such programs in the U.S–; and have served in this role since the inauguration of the program in September 2014. Dr. Kongar utilizes quantitative and qualitative methods in her interdisciplinary and technology-driven research. She has published over one hundred well-cited papers in scholarly journals and conference proceedings. Her research areas include economically and environmentally sustainable waste recovery systems and operations, disassembly sequencing and planning, electronic waste, performance evaluation, big data and data analytics, quality improvement, engineering education programs, female participation and efficiency in engineering disciplines and in K-12 STEM education. Dr. Kongar is the Department Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and an active member of various national and international technical committees, advisory boards, program committees and editorial boards. She is an elected member of the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS) Board of Governors, and has served as Chair of the IEEE TEMS Professional Training and Education Adhoc Committee. Dr. Kongar earned her Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Northeastern University and her BS and MS in industrial engineering from Yıldız Technical University, Turkey. The title of her presentation on the Panel is the “E-waste and sustainable supply chain”.
Tolga Günel
Supply Chain Leadership Partner
Gartner
London, England, UK
Tolga İzzet Günel is a Supply Chain Leadership Partner in Gartner in the UK since October 2021. Prior to that he led the Business Improvement team in Premier Foods for 3 years in the UK. He led the Global Supply Chain Operations of Hayat Kimya between 2015-2018 and Eczacibasi Building Products Group between 2011-2015.
He started his career in 1996 in P&G as materials and production planner in the Fabric Care factory in Istanbul. In 1999, he moved to Belgium to lead Stock Control and Internal Controls then to lead the Distribution Center Operations of P&G Belgium. Between 2002 and 2003, he led the SAP R3 implementation for the whole supply Chain operations with its factories, distribution centers and co-manufacturers.
In 2004, he moved back to Istanbul to lead the demand planning and S&OP for Health and Beauty Care products for the Turkish market. Between 2006-2007, he took the Human Resources Group Manager role to lead the CEEMEA region’s Supply Chain HR activities in Geneva, Switzerland. Between 2007 and 2011, he led the Supply Chain Operations of P&G’s Global Development Markets organizations.
Tolga İzzet Günel was graduated from Bilkent University Industrial Engineering department in 1996.
The title of his presentation on the Panel is the “The Path to Success in Supply Chains: Strategic Partnerships and Ecosystems”.
Arzu Sevencan
Supply Chain Group Manager
Kordsa
İstanbul, Turkey
Industrial Engineer, BSc (from Yıldız Technical University), with Engineering Management, MSc (from Istanbul Technical University) and Executive MBA degree from Sabancı Universitv.
Experienced in different industries and companies in project management, resource management and different fields of supply chain.
Resourceful and results-driven supply chain professional with 18 years of experience managing overall supply chain operations. Proven record of success building, leading, and coaching high-performing teams, implementing ERP systems, including, developing and optimising processes, enhancing operational efficiencies, increasing productivity, streamlining supply chain flow, and directing large-scale projects. Adept at maximising revenue growth, identifying cost effective sources, driving tactical development in distribution networks, and resolving problems/issues whilst meeting stringent deadlines. Strong communication and negotiations skills with well-honed ability to build robust relationships with key stakeholders, vendors, suppliers, and business clients, achieving challenging business goals.
Dr. İsmail Karakış
Supply Chain Leadership Partner
PwC Turkey
Istanbul
Dr. İsmail Karakış holds BSc Degree in Industrial Engineering in 2004, MSc Degree in Engineering Management in 2007, and PhD Degree in Industrial Engineering in 2014 from Istanbul Technical University.
Ismail has 17+ years of management consulting and industry experience. He has been working as a management consultant on Supply Chain area mainly focused on Sourcing & Procurement, Inventory & Warehouse Management and Logistics Management related areas, serving many national and international companies from strategy, operations, and technology perspectives. He completed many operational strategy, operating model design, process, organization and technology transformation projects in more than 20 countries. Ismail has participated in several national and international logistics and supply chain management conferences & events as speaker and academic paper presenter.
He is currently working as Partner and Supply Chain Services Leader at PwC Management Consulting.
Dr. Eren Özceylan
Associate Professor
Industrial Engineering Department
Gaziantep University
Gaziantep, Turkey
Eren Özceylan is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering Department at Gaziantep University. He received a PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from Selçuk University in 2013, and has postdoctoral research experience at the University of Northeastern in 2019. He received the Young Scientist Award from the Science Academy (BAGEP) in 2016. According to the Scopus citation report in 2020 (in terms of single career impact), Dr. Özceylan ranks 380th in the world and 3rd in Turkey in the field of operations research. His research interests are in mathematical modeling and optimization of a variety of problems in production and distribution planning, including logistics and network design, environmental conscious manufacturing, and location-allocation analysis. His work appeared in high impact journals such as Computers and Industrial Engineering, Transportation Research Part A, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Productions Research and the Journal of the Operational Research Society. In recent years, he has been continuing his research on the topics of sustainable cities and green transformation in both national and international projects. The title of his presentation on the Panel is the “Effects of the European Green Deal on Logistics and Supply Chain”.
EFQM Model: Global and Local Perspectives – Panel
11:30 am – 1:00 pm, March 10, Thursday
Room – Virtual Room 6
Panel Chair
Celal Seçkin
Management Consultant
Certified EFQM Trainer and Advisor
Turkey
Celal Seçkin, the founder and managing director of Seçkin Consultancy and Training, works as a certified management consultant (CMC) mainly EFQM Model-related areas, has attended many international events as speaker, moderator, facilitator or organiser since 1990. He worked at Turkish Society for Quality (KalDer) for three years as Manager of the National Quality Awards Programme and at the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Brussels for four years as Manager of the EFQM Awards and contributed to the development of EFQM products such as the Model and training courses. He is a certified EFQM Partner as Trainer and Advisor.
As a qualified EFQM Excellence Assessment Team Leader, Celal has led numerous organisational excellence assessments in public and private sectors and trained hundreds of assessors in many countries. He is currently representing Turkey at the International Council of Management Consultants Institutions (ICMCI) and is the chair of Professional Standards Committee (PSC). He is highly motivated for continuous learning and passionate for working in multi-cultural environments and believes that the EFQM Excellence Approach is one of the key aspects that will contribute to a better future for human being.
Panel Speaker I
Yoshiyuki KATO
Chair, Toyota-Boshoku Turkey
Turkey
Kato is an exceptionally experienced quality expert, having spent over 30 years with the Toyota Boshoku Group in senior roles across the globe. In his previous role, which he has held since 2016, Kato was Vice President in charge of quality control within Europe & African region at Brussels. In addition to his broad quality experience, Kato also has top management experience in ARJ Manufacturing, LLC (later becoming Toyota Boshoku Tennessee). Kato graduated from Nagoya Institute of Technology in Aichi Japan, started his career in 1986 as a Quality Assurance staff in Araco (later becoming Toyota Boshoku). Kato is the President of Toyota Boshoku Turkey since 1 April 2019.
Panel Speaker II
Dr. Aylin Tülay Özden
Managing Director, ProManage
Board Member, Doruk
Turkey
Aylin Özden was born in İstanbul in 1967. She studied Computer and Control Engineering at İstanbul Technical University and had B.Sc. M. Sc. Degrees. While she was working on her Ph.D. she also worked as a research assistant at İTU. She was transferred to manufacturing industry as an research engineer at Simko-Siemens between 1993-1995. She worked as the Automation Dept. Manager of Interservis Textile Machinery Manufacturing Company between 1995-1998. She focused IT and digitalisation needs of Manufacturing beginning with this date.
She is a founding partner of Doruk, esablished on 1998. Her responsibilities are to support, development, implementation of IoT based manufacturing management ( MOM ) systems, AI, AR implementations of ProManage, development of new product and services for the market, international expansion. She is the managing director of ProManage USA which has been founded at 2017 and operating at Chicago, IL. Özden is a member of KALDER, ENOSAD, DEIK and board member of these associations to support their operations. Özden is married and has two children.
Panel Speaker III
Dr. Mehmet Çoban
Management Consultant
Academician, Aydın University
Turkey
Mehmet Coban is a faculty member in İstanbul Aydın University, Istanbul and EFQM certified advisor and trainer behalf of Turkish society for quality. He earned B.S. in Business Administration from Anatolian university, master’s in Management and Organization from Beykent university. Masters Occupational Safety from Marmara university and PhD Business Administration from Beykent university. He has a book that name is A Holistic View to Total Quality Management. He has published journal and conference papers and books chapters. Served as the Guest Editor for academic journals. He has taught courses in EFQM Model, change management, strategic management, self-assessment training, basic concepts of quality, problem solving. He served TQM coordinator, institutional quality management coordinator and change management coordinator long years. And last duty was Turkish excellence award secretary.
Panel on Industry Solutions
2:00 – 3:45 pm, March 10, Thursday
Room – Virtual Room 6
Panel Chair
Dr. Ali Tamer Ünal
Boğaziçi University
Turkey
Panel Speaker I
Panel Speaker II
Panel Speaker III
Panel Speaker IV
Panel Speaker V
Diversity & Inclusion Panel sponsored by Ford Motor Company
4:00 – 5:45 pm, March 10, Thursday
Room – Virtual Room 6
Panel Chair
Professor Donald M. Reimer
President, The Small Business Strategy Group
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Adjunct Faculty – A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical 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 I
Renée Ahee
President
In Other Words, LLC
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Renée Ahee is a public relations and marketing professional with more than 40 years in the corporate sector and private practice and executive management for non-profit organizations.
She established In Other Words, LLC, in 1999, predecessor to, which provides public relations services to profit and non-profit clients, such as Marygrove College in her role as director of communications and marketing, Ford Motor Credit Company, General Motors, Lawrence Technological University, National American Arab Nurses Association, Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and the Council of Asian Pacific Americans.
In 2015-2016, she also served as chief executive officer of the Arab American Women’s Business Council, a non-profit organization she co-founded, which provides education, professional development and networking opportunities for Arab American business and professional women, to put policies and procedures in place, and to create a new, interactive website and marketing materials. She is currently board president of the National American Arab Nurses Association. Renée also serves on the board of Volunteers of America Michigan.
From 2009 till 2015, Renée was CEO of the National Arab American Medical Association. Also in her career, she was program coordinator for the Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan – Dearborn.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and humanities from Marygrove College, Detroit, and a Master of Science in Finance degree in corporate finance with honors from Walsh College, Troy. She is a graduate of the Leadership Detroit XXVI program of the Detroit Regional Chamber.
Renée was recognized by her alma mater, Marygrove College, with its Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2016, Renée was selected as one of the POWER 25 Women in Detroit by Walker’s Legacy as well as recipient of the President’s Award from the National Arab American Medical Association. She was named one of the Top Ten Michigan Business Woman (Diversity Champion) from the National Association of Women Business Owners Greater Detroit Chapter in 2009.
Panel Speaker II
Ayşe Kaşıkırık
Women’s Rights Advocate
PhD Candidate and Researcher
Political Science and Public Administration program
Istanbul University
Istanbul, Turkey
Ayşe Kaşıkırık was born in 1988 in Istanbul. She completed her primary, secondary and high school education in Istanbul and graduated from Fatih Ahmet Rasim Anatolian High School as the top student in 2006. She completed her undergraduate education at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Management Engineering with honors degree. She successfully defended her thesis on “Municipal Budgets with a Gender Equality Perspective: Fatih Municipality” in the Political Science and Public Administration graduate program at Istanbul University Institute of Social Sciences in 2017. She is at the dissertation stage in her doctorate (PhD) education in Istanbul University Political Science and Public Administration program. Between 2013-2016, she worked as a researcher in leadership, entrepreneurship, performance management and human resources management projects at The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). Between 2017-2020, she carried out projects with the focus on women-friendly cities, gender equality, gender responsive budgeting and equal representation of women as the project coordinator at KA.DER (Association for Supporting Women Candidates). She has managed more than 25 national and international projects in her professional life for more than 10 years. She continues her academic studies and projects in the fields of women studies, urbanization policies, social policies, gender equality and local governments as an independent researcher. Her numerous reports and articles in these fields were published in various scientific journals. She has founding memberships as well as being a volunteer in many national and international non-governmental organizations. She became the founding president of “The Global Equality and Inclusion Network (KAPI) in April 2021, with the idea of “More equal and inclusive world is possible”. She aims to conduct original projects, research, publications and reports at KAPI. In this way, she targets to contribute to the learning, strengthening and solidarity of all fragile segments of society from each other.
Panel Speaker III
Debby Mitchell Covington
Director of Partnerships, Outreach and Retention
College of Engineering
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Dr. Debby Mitchell Covington has 29 years of leading diversity initiatives for students, faculty, and staff.
She brings 40 years of experience in program design, implementation and evaluation in higher education, human services organizations, and pre-K-12 schools. She currently serves as Director of Partnerships, Outreach and Retention for the University of Michigan, College of Engineering. Dr. Covington specializes in the recruitment and retention of underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students with a particular focus on developing partnerships with minority serving institutions. In 2020, she designed and implemented a bystander intervention to stop anti-Black Racism workshop for College of Engineering faculty, students, and staff equipping over 2,100 participants to date. Dr. Covington is a facilitator for the University of Michigan’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Facilitators Engagement Program, and a member of the University of Michigan’s Chief Diversity Officer’s DEI Foundational Skills Initiatives Committee.
Dr. Covington is certified in Strategic Diversity Leadership, Cultural Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence. She holds a Doctorate in Ministry and Master’s in Theology from Ashland Theological Seminary. Debby also holds a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in Urban Development-Racial and Ethnic Studies from Michigan State University.
Panel Speaker IV
Dwi Agustina Kurniawati, M.Eng., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Industrial Engineering Department
Former Head of Industrial Engineering Department
Head of Faculty Quality System Controller
Faculty of Science and Technology
UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Indonesia
Ir. Dwi Agustina Kurniawati, S.T., M.Eng., Ph.D., IPM. is an Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She finished her bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia in 2003. Then she pursued her master’s degree in Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and graduated in 2006. In 2016, she got her Ph.D degree in Systems and Engineering Management, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
She has published numerous papers, both in international journals and proceedings (conferences). She also has reviewed lots of journal papers in Industrial Engineering area, such as International Journal of Production Economics (IJPE), Operations Research for Health Care (ORHC), International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IJISE), Journal of Islamic Marketing (JIMA), etc. She also ever involved as consultant for some small and medium industries in her city.
Her current research is in supply chain, cross-dock warehouse, modelling system, operation research, scheduling and special issue in halal supply chain. She has received many research grants in her research area. Her biography is included in Who’s Who in the World year 2015 and 2018 and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering year 2016 and 2017 by Marquis Publication, USA. In addition, in 2021, she received IEOM Outstanding Service Award at The 2nd Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (AP IEOM) Conference and Professorship Award “Dosen Teladan Mutu” from her university.
She was the former Head of Industrial Engineering Laboratory and former Head of Industrial Engineering Department. Currently, she becomes the Head of Quality System Controller in her faculty, the Head of Optimization, Operation Research and Industrial Systems Research Group (2ORIS-RG) and the member of Halal Center UIN Sunan Kalijaga. She also becomes the Director of Webinar for IEOM Society Indonesia Chapter and the Faculty Advisor of IEOM Student Chapter UIN Sunan Kalijaga.
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Prof. Abid Haleem
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Jamia Millia Islamia
New Delhi -110025, India
Dr Abid Haleem is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University by an Act of Parliament) in New Delhi, India. He has been founding Honorary Director, Internal Quality Assurance Cell, of the University. Headed, Mechanical Engineering Department, and MBA (Evening) program at JMI. Dr Abid has also been an Honorary visiting Professor to IIT Delhi.
Presently he is Regional Editor, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Springer, Associate editor with JCOT (Elsevier), and i-Scholar. Conferred with the fellowship of AGBA and has professional & life membership of IIIE, ISME, ISTE, GIFT, SCL, IICC, and ISC. Also, he served as President and Secretary to Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management and AGBA. Attended 2019 Leadership Program (LEAP) of UGC MHRD at AMU & Ohio State University, USA.
With h index of 31 in google scholar (22 in SCOPUS) and more than 4000 citations has published more than 310 research articles of which more than 153 articles indexed in SCOPUS and three books to his credit. His latest book is ‘’Handbook of Materials Management‘’, published by Prentice Hall of India, while the latest edited book is, “An update on Medical 3D Printing” from Solubris. Has more than 33 years of teaching and research experience at graduate & higher level and has produced more than 27 PhD.
Visited various academic institutions and industries in USA, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia towards academic pursuits. Besides having consulting and arbitration experience, he also provides leadership in taking up different types of educational and allied programs in the field of Management & Technology.
He has undertaken consultancy work with DFID, Govt. of Odisha, Ed. CIL etc. Worked as a High Court-appointed arbitrator for the construction project at DIAC, Dew Delhi. He has also executed various research and support projects of DST, AICTE, and UGC, and completed FIST funding.
He has been on the Board of Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd. as an Independent Director and advisor to DTDC Ltd. He has been a member of the Ad hoc Task Force (ATF) of Performance Management Group of Cabinet Secretariat of Govt. of India. It is on the advisory/research boards of various institutions and involved in multiple institutional activities related to policy planning, administration, accreditation, curriculum design, admission, evaluation & examination, and another educational process. His teaching & research areas include Technology Management, Supply Chain Management, Halal Supply Chain, Additive Manufacturing, Innovation, Sustainability, allied fields of Industrial Engg.