15th IEOM Global Engineering Education
Toronto, Canada
October 23-25, 2019
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 2019 Toronto 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 2019 Toronto 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
15th GEE IEOM DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
Wednesday (October 23, 2019)
Session I: Global Engineering Education (Mackenzie Room)
Session Chair:
8:00 am– 8:30 am (Wednesday)
8:00 am – 8:20 am (Wednesday)
Kapil Gupta
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa
Kapil Gupta is working as Associate Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology at the University of Johannesburg. He obtained Ph.D. in mechanical engineering with specialization in Advanced Manufacturing from Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India in 2014. Advanced machining processes, sustainable manufacturing, green machining, precision engineering and gear technology are the areas of his interest. He has authored several SCI/ISI Journal and International Conference articles. He also authored and edited 10 international books on hybrid machining, advanced gear manufacturing, micro and precision manufacturing, and sustainable manufacturing with the renowned international publishers. He has also successfully guest edited special issues of a Scopus indexed journals and he is currently editing a series of handbooks on Advanced Manufacturing as a series editor. He is a recognized reviewer of many international journals and in the advisor/technical committees of international conferences. He has also delivered invited speeches in international conferences and symposiums, and seminar talks at international universities. Kapil Gupta is a NRF [National Research Foundation] rated Researcher in South Africa. Currently, he is supervising 8 Masters and 4 Doctorate students who are busy conducting research in advanced manufacturing and industrial engineering fields. He is also conducting research in teaching & learning in higher education (HE) scenario along with doing his PG Diploma in higher education. He is working on implementation of innovative teaching techniques for the enhanced learning of engineering students. Recently, he also developed a manufacturing engineering virtual lab.
Doctor Mukhawana
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa
Madindwa Mashinini is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology at the University of Johannesburg. He is conducting research in advanced manufacturing, and teaching and learning in engineering education.
Madindwa Mashinini
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa
Doctor Mukhawana is a Lecturer in the Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology at the University of Johannesburg. He is doing projects on project based learning and manufacturing engineering virtual lab.
ID 279 A Project Based Learning Tool for Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Engineering Education
Kapil Gupta, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
8:20 am – 8:40 am (Wednesday)
Dr. Fouzia Baki
Mechanical, Automotive and Material Engineering (MAME)
University of Windsor
Windsor, ON N9E 4C4, Canada
Fouzia Baki is an Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering in the Department of Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering at the University of Windsor. Fouzia is a professional engineer in Ontario. She has been engaged in pedagogical research since 2007 with a focus on finding tools and techniques to engage students in large quantitative classes. Fouzia designs courses with meaningful and experiential learning components.
ID 049 Assessing Foreign Engineering Graduate Students’ Understanding of Sustainable Development – A Survey
Fouzia Baki, University of Windsor, Canada
8:40 am – 9:00 am (Wednesday)
Behzad Beigpourian
Department of Engineering Education
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Behzad Beigpourian is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant in Engineering Education at Purdue University. He earned his master’s in Structural Engineering from Shahid Chamran University in Iran, and his bachelor’s in Civil Technical Teacher from Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University in Iran, Tehran. He has been official Technical Teacher at Ministry of Education in Iran from 2007 to 2018, and received many certificate in education such as Educational Planning, Developing Research Report, and Understanding School Culture. During these years, he has taught construction courses in several technical schools. Mr. Beigpourian currently works in the CATME project, which is NSF funding project, on optimizing teamwork skills and assessing the quality of Peer Evaluations.
Daniel M Ferguson
Department of Engineering Education
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Daniel M. Ferguson is CATME Managing Director and the recipient of several NSF awards for research in engineering education and a research associate at Purdue University. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position he was Associate Director of the Inter-Professional Studies Program [IPRO] and Senior Lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology and involved in research in service learning, assessment processes and interventions aimed at improving learning objective attainment. Prior to his University assignments he was the Founder and CEO of The EDI Group, Ltd. and The EDI Group Canada, Ltd, independent professional services companies specializing in B2B electronic commerce and electronic data interchange. The EDI Group companies conducted syndicated market research, offered educational seminars and conferences and published The Journal of Electronic Commerce. He was also a Vice President at the First National Bank of Chicago [now J.P. Morgan Chase], where he founded and managed the bank’s market leading professional Cash Management Consulting Group, initiated the bank’s non-credit service product management organization and profit center profitability programs and was instrumental in the breakthrough EDI/EFT payment system implemented by General Motors. Dr. Ferguson is a graduate of Notre Dame, Stanford and Purdue Universities, a special edition editor of the Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship and a member of Tau Beta Pi.
Matthew W Ohland
Department of Engineering Education
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011 and 2015. Dr. Ohland is an ABET Program Evaluator for ASEE. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi and is a Fellow of the ASEE, IEEE, and AAAS.
Siqing Wei
Department of Engineering Education
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Siqing Wei received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. He is currently pursuing Ph.D degree in Engineering Education at Purdue University. After years of experience of serving a peer teacher and a graduate teaching assistant in first year engineering courses, he is a research assistant at CATME research group studying the existence, causes and interventions on international engineering teamwork behaviors, the integration and implementation of team-based assignments and projects into STEM course designs and using mixed-method, especially natural language processing to student written research data, such as peer-to-peer comments. Siqing also works as the technical support manager at CATME research group.
ID 124 Cohesiveness in Engineering Students Teams: Effect of Gender, Race, Year of Study, GPA, Previous Course Grade and Some Prerequisite Knowledge
Behzad Beigpourian, Daniel M Ferguson, Matthew W Ohland and Siqing Wei, Department of Engineering Education, Purdue University, USA
09:40 – 10:20 Opening Keynote I: Dr. Jatin Nathwani, Professor and Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy, Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE), Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Environment, Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
10:20 – 11:00 Opening Keynote II: Shalabh Bakshi, Director, Digital Enterprise and MindSphere, Digital Factory Division, Siemens Canada
11:00 – 11:30 Networking Break
11:30 – 12:00 Wednesday Keynote III: Ahmad K. Elshennawy, Ph.D., Professor, Executive Director of The UCF Quality Institute, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, Florida, USA
12:00 – 12:30 Wednesday Keynote IV: Jeffrey Jones, Plant Manager, Etobicoke Casting Plant, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Canada
13:00 – 14:30 Wednesday Lunch Keynote: Dr. Gursel Suer, Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
Session I: Global Engineering Education (Mackenzie Room)
Session Chair:
2:30 pm– 4:00 pm (Wednesday)
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm (Wednesday)
Ammar Aamer
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Department of Industrial Engineering
Sampoerna University
Jakarta, Indonesia
Ammar Aamer is the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology at Sampoerna University in Jakarta, Indonesia. He earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from The University of Tennessee, USA. Dr. Aamer is an experienced professional with more than 21 years of experience. He provided consulting services to more than 30 international companies in the areas of Manufacturing Systems, Projects Evaluation & Monitoring, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Facilities Design and Layout, Strategic Evaluation and Gap Analysis, Process and Quality Improvement, Capacity Analysis, and Simulation Modelling. Dr. Aamer delivered and designed several Training and Capacity Building courses in the areas of: Operations Management, Total Quality Management, Project Management, Entrepreneurship, Feasibility studies, Monitoring and Evaluation, Six Sigma, Statistical tools, Lean Enterprise Systems, Capacity Analysis, and Simulation. His research interests include Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Simulation, and Quality.
Nesrine EL-Zine
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Sana’a University
Sana’a Yemen
Nesrine EL-Zine is a Professor in the Department of French Language and Literature at Sana’a University. Dr. EL-ZINE earned her Licence and Maîtrise in Foreign Languages and Literatures (French, English and Arabic) from The University of Paris 8 (France). She holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (French) from the University of Tennessee (USA). Besides her research on Teaching French as a Foreign Language, Dr. EL-ZINE’s research interests is in the field of Students’ Motivation and Attitudes, and the Classroom Learning and Interaction.
ID 271 Industrial Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Flipped Classroom Experience
Ammar Aamer, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering, Sampoerna University, Jakarta, Indonesia
Nesrine EL-Zine, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sana’a University, Sana’a Yemen
2:50 pm – 3:10 pm (Wednesday)
Chuhan Zhou, Sunjae Choi, Behzad Beigpourian, Siqing Wei, Daniel M Ferguson and Matthew W Ohland
Department of Engineering Education
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Chuhan Zhou is a junior undergraduate student and Research Assistant in Engineering Education at Purdue University. He is currently majoring in Applied Statistics and minoring in Economics. He is interested in topics regarding data analysis and probability modeling. Chuhan has worked in CATME since 2018 and is currently conducting research regarding the CATME peer evaluation system, with a specific focus on how demographics might affect teamwork behaviors.
ID 155 The Difference between Teams with No Female Students and Teams with Female Students for Peer Evaluation Behavior in Engineering Education
Chuhan Zhou, Sunjae Choi, Behzad Beigpourian, Siqing Wei, Daniel M Ferguson, Matthew W Ohland, Department of Engineering Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
3:10 pm – 3:30 pm (Wednesday)
Elaiza E. Bautista, Glyda Aricon B. Marquez, and Sheila May P. Gappi
Industrial Engineering Department
Technological Institute of the Philippines
363 P. Casal, Quiapo Metro Manila, Philippines
Jaypy T. Tenerife
Industrial Engineering Department
Technological Institute of the Philippines
363 P. Casal, Quiapo Metro Manila, Philippines
Jaypy Tenerife is a part-time faculty member of the Industrial Engineering Program, College of Engineering and Architecture of the Technological Institute of the Philippines, Manila. His areas of interest are in the fields of Engineering Education and Training, Organization Development, Gender Studies, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
Maria Teresa B. Mendoza
Industrial Engineering Department
Technological Institute of the Philippines
363 P. Casal, Quiapo Metro Manila, Philippines
Maria Teresa B. Mendoza is the current head of Industrial Engineering Department of Technological Institute of the Philippines, Manila. She graduated Master in Industrial Engineering and Management at Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Currently she is writing her dissertation for PhD in Technology Management at Technological Institute of the Philippines, Manila. She handles IE students’ design projects, community and company-based undergraduate researches as adviser.
ID 162 Unravelling the Stereotypes of Women in Industrial Engineering
Elaiza E. Bautista, Glyda Aricon B. Marquez, Sheila May P. Gappi, Industrial Engineering Department, Technological Institute of the Philippines, Quiapo Metro Manila, Philippines
Jaypy T. Tenerife, Maria Teresa B. Mendoza, Industrial Engineering Department, Technological Institute of the Philippines, Quiapo Metro Manila, Philippines
Session II: Global Engineering Education (Mackenzie Room)
Session Chair:
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (Wednesday)
4:30 pm – 4:50 pm (Wednesday)
ID 062 Natural Language Processing System for Self-Reflection and Peer-Evaluation
Rui Wang, Siqing Wei, Matthew W. Ohland, Daniel M. Ferguson, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, IN, USA
4:50 pm – 5:10 pm (Wednesday)
Dr. Arwa Y. Aleryani
Associate professor in Information Technology
Mississauga ON, Canada
The development of key competencies of engineering and technology graduates
Arwa Aleryani is an associate professor of Information Technology. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences from Kuwait University; an MSc in System Analysis and Design from City University/London, and a PhD in Information Technology; e-readiness for e-Government from the University of Khartoum.
Dr. Aleryani has over fifteen years extensive academic and professional experience. Besides teaching and researching he has assumed different responsibilities among them, Dean of Faculty of Computer & Information Technology, Head of both, Quality Assurance Unit and distance learning Unit, and Editor-in-Chief of Information Technology and Networking Journal.
The topics of her researches include e-government, technology acceptance and adoption, e-learning, e-business, databases systems, management information systems, system analysis and design, IT project management, Cloud computing, DSS, Big Data, IoT. Education and IT, and Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Quality Assurance in Higher Education; Teaching and Learning Methodologies.
Dr. Aleryani has participated in several international and national conferences and workshops. She has published seven textbooks and a number of scientific papers and chapters in international conferences and journals. She also is a reviewer and member of advisory boards at a number of international scientific journals. Arwa Aleryani is a member of: TechWomen2012; Steering Committee of Arab women in Computing (ArabWIC); IEEE, and Immigrant Researchers Support Network (IRSN) – Canada
5:10 pm – 5:30 pm (Wednesday)
Ammar Aamer, Ph.D.
Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Sampoerna University
Indonesia
Title: Transnational Engineering Education in South East Asia (Challenges and Opportunities)
Bio: Dr. Ammar Aamer is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology at Sampoerna University in Jakarta, Indonesia. He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from The University of Tennessee. Dr. Aamer worked as a Senior Industrial Engineer at Gap Inc. Global Supply Chain and Product Operations, Gallatin, TN-USA. He is an experienced professional with more than 20 years of practical and academic experience. His work experience spanned across three different countries in the USA, Yemen, and Indonesia. He provided consulting services to more than 30 international companies in the areas of Lean Manufacturing Systems, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, Facilities Design and Layout, Strategic Evaluation and Gap Analysis, Process & Quality Improvement, Capacity Analysis, and Simulation Modelling. His research interests include Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Entrepreneurship, Transnational Engineering Education, Quality, and Simulation Modeling.
Friday (October 24, 2019)
Session III: Global Engineering Education (Mackenzie Room)
Session Chair:
8:00 am – 9:30 am (Thursday)
8:00 am – 8:20 am (Thursday)
Dr. Mario Chauca
Professor
Ricardo Palma University
Vice Rectorate Research Advisor
Santiago de Surco 15039, Peru
Project Based Learning with Active Action Using Successive Repetitions in Engineering Education
Dr.Mario Chauca was a member of the Executive Committee of the Association Overseas Technical Scholarship AOTS-Kenshu Kiokay (Peru) for 4 years, a member of the technical committees since 2010, invited by the University of Washington IEEE, in 2010 joined the Steering Committee of the IEEE MWSCAS, has participated in committees in the European Union, Asia and Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Estados Unidos, Mexico, Peru. Currently, he is on committees for the 2020 2nd AECCC 2020, 2020 4th ICACS 2020, SEE-USQ 2019, the ICMES 2019, the ICCCV 2019, the ICMME 2019, the ICIMA 2019, among others. All event proceedings are indexed in Scopus and other database.
Chauca was an observer member of IFEES and participant as speaker at WEEF 2018 in Albuquerque (USA), a round table during WEEF 2017 in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). He obtained a scholarship from the Japanese Association Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) for studies and training in Technology Management at the Tokyo Kenshu Center in Japan, from the National IT Industry Promotion Agency NIPA and Ministry of Science, ICT and Planning of the Future of Korea in the city of Seoul with certification signed by the minister of the Korean sector. He is a Consultant in Information and Communication Technologies in the government sector of Peru and in the United Nations Project-Inter-American Development Bank-Congress of the Republic of Peru and the Ministry of the Interior of Peru and in the private sector. He is a Peruvian researcher registered by the Peruvian Government, adviser first award paper CONEIMERA2018, adviser of the First General Award Project for more than 5000 projects in the contest from the Romero Group, adviser for first projects in congress INTERCON, CONEIMERA, and was nominated for the Graña y Montero Prize for Research in Peruvian Engineering. Nominated Peruvian Research Southern Prize 2019 and nominated research award 2018 MEXICO. He has published more than 50 papers in Peru and internationally, served as author and advisor of articles published in IEEExplore, Scopus and other database, organizer of international academic events and editor of proceedings, and advisor to the IEEE chapters at the National University of Callao and the Ricardo Palma University. He teaches at the postgraduate and undergraduate level, with 27 years of experience. He graduated as an Electronic Engineer from Ricardo Palma University in Lima Peru, obtained his Master’s Degree in Business Administration with a mention in “Business Management” and his Doctorate in Education from San Luis Gonzaga National University.
8:20 am – 8:40 am (Thursday)
Dr. Daw Alwerfalli
Professor and Director of Master of Engineering Management Program
A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering
Lawrence Technological University
Southfield, Michigan, USA
Prominent professor, senior technical industry consultant and manufacturing engineering educator with a tremendous expertise in program and curriculum development in higher technical education. Highly experienced and dedicated community leader with great ability to work with an array of constituencies and coalitions in developing shared organizational vision to create and implement strategies aimed at advancing common causes to accomplish goals in fulfilment of the organization’s mission. Highly perceived expert and industrial advisor. He is the founder of Manufacturing Engineering Solutions (MES) a consulting firm founded in 2000. He is senior technical consultant and strategist to the US manufacturing industry. MES developed executive training programs to numerous organizations such as Chrysler, Ford, GM, Exxon Mobil, Conco Philips, Marathon and Tier I and II suppliers to the US auto industry and other international companies. Published numerous research papers in many national and international conferences. Dr. Alwerfalli is a recipient of many prestigious awards including, the 2009 Arab American of the year in education, 1997 Lawrence Tech. Excellence in Teaching Award, 2004 Outstanding Engineering Faculty. He serves on many boards of directors, he also served on the Advisor Council of the Governor of Michigan for the Arab American and Chaldean Affairs Committee. He is currently serving on the steering committee of MAT 2 for dual education where he is a lead assessor to evaluate colleges for readiness in joining MAT 2 coalition of several German US based companies. Dr. Alwerfalli is also serving on the steering committee of “LIFT” Lightweight Innovation for Tomorrow, The committee is to develop innovative educational curriculum and skills for the next generation workforce for the Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee under $148 Million, a federal grant for the year 2015-2016. For several years, Dr. Alwerfalli served as the academic advisor of many doctoral students who obtained their doctorate degrees and are currently leaders in the US auto industry.
ID 354: Entrepreneurs: The Driving Force behind Small Business
Iman Youssef, International University of California
Daw Alwerfalli, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan 48705, USA
8:40 am – 9:00 am (Thursday)
Ms. Iman Youssef, MA. ILC. CA
CEO, Amour Fragrances
CEO, Best Canadian Liquidation (BCL)
LaSalle, Ontario, Canada
Ms. Youssef, is an Arab-Canadian woman-entrepreneur, community activist, CEO of two companies Amour Fragrances and Best Canadian Liquidation (BCL) located in Canada.
Ms. Youssef is a humanitarian activist, national and international volunteer who regularly manages sponsorships and raises funds to support international causes. She participates in humanitarian and voluntary community work and fully engaged in supporting many charity organizations.
Ms. Youssef is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Business Administration at William Howard Taft University with a research focused on Entrepreneurship among female immigrants; in collaboration with Windsor Women working with immigrant women WWWIW. Iman is fluent in Arabic, English and Sign language, she has applied these skills to pursue other opportunities in business. In 2007, Iman participated in hosting a health and beauty segment on My Second Home, a weekly television program through Rogers T.V. The purpose of this show was to help new immigrants to Canada by providing them with information to assist in the transition from the Middle East to Canada.
Ms. Youssef is a member of board of directors of Daughters for Life Foundation; a non-profit organization, providing quality education for young women of the Middle East to achieve lasting peace. Ms. Youssef has more than two decades of experience in entrepreneurship, and a member of the Canada Arab Chamber of Commerce who awarded her the Business Excellence Award in 2013.
Ms. Youssef was cited in the book titled SHEROES NEXT DOOR, When Ordinary women make extraordinary resolve by Subarna Gupta which was published by Next Century Publishing, Las Vegas Nevada, 2016. The book has helped thousands of people to think big. Iman has an interesting Entrepreneurship journey was one of ten inspiring stories published by the author.
ID 355: Conducting a Feasibility Analysis and Crafting a Winning Business Plan
Iman Youssef, International University of California
Daw Alwerfalli, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan 48705, USA
9:00 am – 9:20 am (Thursday)
ID 378 Transforming industrial engineering course content using an industry 4.0 MOOC based feedback approach
Ms. Mouchou Tchamdjeu Rosine
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department
University of Johannesburg, DFC campus
Johannesburg, South Africa
Mouchou TR. is a Mechanical Engineering PhD researcher and an academic member at the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Technology Department at the University of Johannesburg South Africa. She has an engineering background with a Masters and Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering. She has work experience in Industrial Engineer R&D in an industry and she is a member of the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA).
Dr. Opeyeolu Timothy Laseinde
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department
University of Johannesburg, DFC campus
Johannesburg, South Africa
Laseinde OT. is an academic staff in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Technology Department, at the University of Johannesburg South Africa. He has an engineering background with qualifications in Mechanical/Production engineering, and workplace experience in industrial engineering. He has vast experience in projects involving competitiveness improvement, quality management systems, performance evaluation, data analysis, engineering life cycle management, mechanical engineering machine design, and the application of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) for content development associated with virtual reality, robotics and automatic control. He has worked as an engineering consultant in Sustainability Development Goal’s (SDG) projects for global organizations and is currently working as an academic within the teaching and research sector, where he is exploring avenues for pioneer innovations in the fourth industrial revolution.
09:40 – 10:20 Thursday Keynote I: Dr. Andrew K.S. Jardine, Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical and industrial Engineering, Founding Director of the Centre for Maintenance Optimization & Reliability Engineering (C-MORE), University of Toronto, Canada
10:20 – 11:00 Thursday Keynote II: Peter Merrill, President, Quest Management Inc., Canada
11:00 – 11:30 Networking Break
11:30 – 12:00 Thursday Keynote III: David Pistrui, Ph.D., Industry Liaison, Director, Graduate Recruiting and Clinical Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering & Science, University of Detroit Mercy, Michigan, USA
12:00 – 12:30 Thursday Keynote IV: Dr. Darrell Kleinke, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of Professional Engineering Programs, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA
13:00 – 14:30 Thursday Lunch Keynote: Eric Ayanegui, Director Operations Engineering, Cintas Corp., Houston, Texas, USA
Session V: Global Engineering Education (Mackenzie Room)
Session Chair:
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm (Thursday)
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm (Thursday)
Dr. Anjali Awasthi
Associate Professor
Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
Education Chair, Canadian Operational Research Society
Past Member of Executive Board and Student Counselor – ASQ 401
Dr. Anjali Awasthi is Associate Professor at Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), in Concordia University, Montreal. She received a PhD in industrial engineering and automation from INRIA Rocquencourt and University of Metz, France. Prior to Concordia, Dr. Awasthi worked at University of British Columbia and University of Laval where she was involved in several projects on industrial applications of operations research. In France, she was involved in many European projects aimed at improving urban mobility in cities, city logistics and on cybernetic transportation systems. Her areas of research are modeling and simulation, data mining, Information Technology and decision making, sustainable logistics planning, quality assurance in supply chain management and sustainable supply chain management. She is the author of several journal and conference papers on these topics.
2:50 pm – 3:10 pm (Thursday)
Dr. Stephen A. Akinlabi
Senior Researcher
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology
University of Johannesburg
South Africa
Stephen A. Akinlabi holds a doctorate (D.Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Johannesburg and currently a Senior Researcher at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and a visiting Associate Professor to Mechanical Engineering, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria. Stephen is Professional Mechanical Engineer with over Twelve (+12) years’ industrial work experience in the oil & gas industry before joining the academics. He currently supervises over fifteen (15) Postgraduates and has published over one hundred and fifty (150) academic research articles in Journal, chapters in books, and conference proceedings.
His research activity currently include: Forming processes, Laser material processing, and Laser additive manufacturing, Welding Processes and Friction Stir processing, Material Science and Characterization, Surface Modifications Techniques, Life circle assessment, Sustainable Engineering, Operations Management and Maintenance Engineering.
3:10 pm – 3:30 pm(Thursday)
Ian Waite
PhD Student
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida
and
Senior Customer Quality Manager
General Electric Aviation
USA
Ian Waite is a PhD student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida and a Senior Customer Quality Manager at the General Electric Aviation business. His doctoral research topic is “Design and Evaluate the IMPACTS Model for HIV/AIDS Healthcare Service Delivery System in Developing Countries: An Industrial Engineering Approach”.
The purpose of his research paper is to develop the conceptual framework of a healthcare delivery service IMPACTS model to reduce the amount of people not currently getting access to the HIV/AIDS treatment. Despite a growing body of literature on technology readiness level, scholars largely neglect the human readiness level portion of how human will interact with these new technologies especially in developing countries. This paper looks at the technology readiness level and human readiness level integration in the HIV/AIDS healthcare delivery service environment in Malawi Africa due to the limited accessibility to advance technologies. The overall system readiness level to ensure that people that are living with HIV/AIDS are getting access to treatment will be determine by the technology readiness level and the human readiness level.
Outside of school, Ian managed the quality portfolios for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Gulfstream Aeronautics and Bombardier. Ian enjoys mentoring students and collaborating with researcher across multiple disciplines.
Dr. Pamela McCauley
Program Director-Innovation Corps-National Innovation Network Sites Program (I-Corps Sites)
National Science Foundation
Professor and Director of the Ergonomics Laboratory
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
University of Central Florida
Dr. Pamela McCauley is a biomechanics expert, a Professor and Director of the Ergonomics Laboratory in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida, and an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker and popular author on a lifelong mission to increase diversity in Innovation and STEM.
An award-winning educator often described as an outstanding professor and enthusiastic teacher, Dr. McCauley previously held the position of Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her teaching efforts have resulted in the receipt of both the College of Engineering Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP). She is also the recipient of the National 2015 Black Engineer of the Year Award for Educational Leadership and the Promotion of College-Level Education.
Dr. McCauley is the author of over 100 technical papers, book chapters, conference proceedings and the best-selling ergonomics textbook, Ergonomics: Foundational Principles, Applications, and Technologies. Many of her leadership, diversity, innovation and STEM education related keynote talks draw from her research-based book; Transforming Your STEM Career through Leadership and Innovation: Inspiration and Strategies for Women, which examines the growing need for leadership and innovation, particularly among women and STEM professionals.
Her newest book, The Essentials of Engineering Leadership and Innovation, is underpinned by years of applied experience in engineering settings, and is designed to develop and prepare engineers as leaders to accept the technical and managerial challenges that they will face as professionals. To inspire students, particularly minorities and females, to consider careers in STEM she authored, Winners Dont QuitToday they Call Me Doctor, in which she shares her challenging yet inspirational journey to engineering success despite financial, academic, and personal difficulties.
The U.S. State Department selected Dr. McCauley for the prestigious Jefferson Science Fellowship Program in 2015. Jefferson Science Fellowships are distinguished appointments to senior academics based on their stature, recognition, and experience in the national and international scientific or engineering communities, and their ability to rapidly and accurately understand scientific advancements outside their discipline area to effectively integrate this knowledge into U.S. Department of State/USAID policy discussions. Dr. McCauley also has the distinction of being a 2012 U.S. Fulbright Scholar Specialist Program Awardee for her US-New Zealand Human Engineering and Mobile Technology in High Consequence Emergency Management Research Program.
In addition to her academic appointments, Dr. McCauley is a seasoned entrepreneur. As a highly sought expert witness, she applies ergonomics, biomechanics, physics and human engineering principles to support cases nationwide. She has also led start-up companies for the past 20 years developing human factors centric services and software products to support corporations, the Department of Defense, NASA and universities throughout the nation.
Over the past twenty-five years, Dr. McCauley has held various leadership positions and has received numerous awards in recognition of her commitment, professional accomplishments and community outreach efforts in the business, technology, and education communities. She has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Oklahoma, the Engineer of the Year Award from the Florida Engineering Society, and has been recognized by the Society of Women Engineers as Engineering Educator of the year, and as the Millennium Woman of the Year by the Millennium Woman Foundation.
ID 376: “Design and Evaluate the “IMPACTS” Model for HIV/AIDS Healthcare Delivery Service System in Developing Countries: An Industrial Engineering Approach”
3:30 pm – 3:50 pm(Thursday)
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 VI: Global Engineering Education (Mackenzie Room)
Women in Industry and Academia (WIIA) Panel Session
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (Thursday)
Panel Chair
Pr. Loubna Benabbou
Management Sciences Department
UQAR- Lévis Campus
Lévis, QC, Canada
Dr. Loubna BENABBOU is a Professor of Management Sciences at Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) at Lèvis campus. Her research work lie in the development and application of machine/deep learning and decision sciences to transform data for making better decisions and improving operational processes. Dr Benabbou has been supervising several undergraduate and graduate students in projects for different Industries related to the areas of machine learning, decision sciences and operations management. Her research related to these fields has been published in international scientific journals and conferences’ proceedings. Dr Benabbou was an associate professor of Industrial Engineering at EMI School of Engineering. She was also a trader at Casablanca stock exchange and financial analyst and risk manager at the Caisse Marocaine des retraites the Moroccan largest intuitional fund manager. Dr Benabbou is an industrial engineer from EMI School of Engineering, she earned an MBA and a PhD in machine learning and decision sciences from Laval University.
Panel Speaker I
Dr. Ilham Kissani
Professor of Engineering & Management Science
School of Science & Engineering
Al Akhawayn University
Ifrane, Morocco
Dr. Ilham Kissani is an assistant professor in the field of engineering management for the School of Science and Engineering at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. She has served as the main advisor and lead instructor for the undergraduate and MS programs in Engineering and Management Systems since 2010. She has helped create very close ties with the AUI School of Business Administration, which allows both schools to leverage our resources and deliver a greater diversity of courses to students, such as supply chain management and operations management. Her background is diverse and includes industrial experience as well as academic. Her degrees are from INSEA, Morocco (Engineer) and Université Laval, Canada (Master and Ph.D). She has worked with Royal Dutch Shell as a project manager and with Modellium Québec, where she consulted in logistics and supply chain issues. Additionally, Dr. Kissani contributes in research in supply chain management, planning, and operations research. She is a member of ASEM, IEEE, IEOM, IIE, and INFORMS.
Panel Speaker II
Prof. Soumaya Yacout
Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
École Polytechnique de Montréal
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Soumaya Yacout is a full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal in Canada since 1999. She is also the founder, President and CEO of DEXIN Inc., an enterprise dedicated in offering state of the art technologies for data-driven solutions to help companies in achieving the highest level of value added performance by keeping their physical assets in good health. She earned her doctoral degree in Operations Research at The Georges Washington University in 1985, her bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1975, and her masters in Industrial Engineering in 1979, at Cairo University. Her research interests include preventive, predictive and prescriptive maintenance and optimization of decision-making. She has publications in peer-reviewed journals including Quality Engineering, International Journal of Production Research, Computers and Industrial Engineering, IEEE Transactions, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Expert Systems with Applications, and papers in international conferences, some of which received the best paper award. She is the co-editor and the co-writer of a book ‘Current Themes in Engineering Technologies’ on minimal repair, and the book ‘Ontology Modeling in Physical Asset Integrity Management’ on interoperability and exchangeability of data. She is a senior member of the American Society for Quality ASQ, and the Canadian Operations Research Society CORS. She is a Registered Professional Engineer in Quebec.
Panel Speaker III
Dr. Samira Keivanpour
Assistant Professor
Polytechnique Montréal
Canada
Samira is an Assistant Professor at Polytechnique Montréal. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and MBA in Operation Management from Iran. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Laval University. Samira was a postdoctoral fellow and professional researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Laval University during 2015-2017. She was a faculty member at Thompson Rivers University before joining Polytechnique Montréal. Her research interests include Sustainable solutions in supply chain and logistics, end of life products treatment, digital supply chain, and industry 4.0.
Panel Speaker IV
Isha Grewal, MBA Finance, Project Mgmt.
Key Accounts Driver, PwC Canada
Marketing Director, Women Who Rock
Toronto, Canada
Isha Grewal is a Key Accounts Driver at PwC Canada with the primary focus on Manufacturing, Automotive and Engineering & Construction industry. She is the Marketing Director for ‘Women Who Rock’ foundation which focuses on networking programs, leadership workshops and development of women in the mining sector. An entrepreneur at heart, she started a small business in GTA by the name of City Screens, that offers a private advertising channel for small businesses, and is powered by a Connected Digital Signage Solution. She is an experienced Industry 4.0 consultant, with knowledge of automation and data-driven solutions. She is an advocate for women in the industry and is actively engaged in efforts to improve women sponsorship at workplaces, providing them with equal opportunities for growth, programs for their leadership development and better work-life balance.
She has an MBA in Finance from Lawrence Tech University, MI-USA, and received a Diploma in Project Management after completing her Undergraduate in Commerce from University of Delhi-India before immigrating to Canada. She also has a certificate in Negotiation Mastery from Stanford University.
Friday (October 25, 2019)
09:40 – 10:20 Friday Keynote I: Todd Deaville, Director of Engineering and R&D, Magna International Inc., Toronto, Canada
10:20 – 11:00: Friday Keynote II: Dr. Samir Elhedhli, Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
11:00 – 11:30 Networking Break
8:00 – 11:30 High School and Middle School STEM Poster Competition
11:30 – 12:00 Friday Keynote III: Birsen Donmez, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Human Factors and Transportation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
12:00 – 12:30 Friday Keynote IV: Cheryl Thompson, Founder and CEO of CADIA, Center for Automotive Diversity, Inclusion & Advancement, Detroit, Michigan, USA
13:00 – 14:30 Friday Lunch Keynote: Mr. Lee Childers, Chief Executive Officer, Tooling Tech Group, Macomb, Michigan, USA
19:00 – 22:00 CONFERENCE AWARD DINNER
Awards Keynotes:
- Devashis Mitra, Dean, Faculty of Business Administration, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
- Abdur Rahim, Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
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
(Click on the name of the speakers for pdf presentation file)
- Dr. Jinwoo Park
- Prof. Don Reimer
- Dr. Hongyi Sun
- Dr. Ilham Kissani
- Dr. Eugene Rex Jalao
- Dr. Gulnara Abitova
- Dr. James Chen
- Dr. FJ Kahlen
- Dr. Erik Sundin
- Dr. Abdul Hakim Halim
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