Panel Sessions
Day 1
Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 and its relationship with Lean Six Sigma/Project Management
Moderators: Dr. Ahmad Elshennawy and
Members: TBD (at most 4): Tony Prensa
Day 1
Latin American Women in Industrial Engineering Research and Education: Successes and Future Challenges
Moderators
Members: TBD (at most 4): the two ladies from Colombia and one from Ecuador, and one from Brazil
Day 2
Supply chain and maritime logistics – the importance of technology
Moderators: Dr. Max Jimenez and Dra. Guimara
Members: TBD (at most 4)
Day 2
Artificial Intelligence Curriculum in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management: What to do?
Moderators: TBD
Members: TBD (at most 4)
Day 3
Shaping the Future through Innovation in Energy, Sustainability, and Resilient Infrastructure: Perspectives from the USA and Latin America
Moderators:
Members:
Panel Coordinator
Dr. Luis Rabelo
Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL, USA
Dr. Luis Rabelo received the BS in Electro-Mechanical Engineer from the Technological University of Panama in 1983, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1987 Master’s and Doctorate in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri. He was a Postdoc at the University of Missouri in Nuclear Engineering. Dr. Rabelo received a dual MS in Systems and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked for the Advanced Technology Group (Goodrich) and Honeywell Laboratories. Dr. Rabelo was a NASA Fellow from 2002 to 2005, and a Project Manager at NASA from 2009 to 2011. He is currently Professor in the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department at UCF. He is also the Undergraduate Coordinator. He has written more than 300 articles and a book in Artificial Intelligence. He has been the principal advisor for 39 Master’s students and 29 PhDs. He received the award for the Best Scientific Article of the Year 2004 from the Society of Automotive Engineers, received the distinction “ONE NASA” in 2006. He was the recipient of the Fulbright Distinction in 2008. In November 2008, he received the honor of the Technological University of Panama (UTP) of being the 2008 Distinguished Alumni. In 2011, he was the Henaac Award Winner in Education. In 2013 and 2018, he received the Forest R. McFarland Award from the Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE). Lately, he received the SAE Russell S. Springer Award for his article on the modeling of space operations systems in 2017.