Plenary
2:00 – 3:30 pm, Wednesday, October 9, 2024 – Zoom Room 5
Session Chair: Dr. Hayder Zghair, Southern Arkansas University
2:00 pm, October 9, 2024
Dr. Hayder Zghair
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
Department of Engineering and Physics
Director of Industrial Engineering Development
College of Science and Engineering
Southern Arkansas University
Magnolia, Arkansas
Dr. Hayder Zghair is an assistant professor of Industrial Engineering in the Department of Engineering and Physics, and the director of Industrial Engineering Development in the College of Science and Engineering at Southern Arkansas University. Dr. Zghair is chairing and member of several committees at the department, college, and university levels. Before joining SAU, served in several academic appointments including Assistant Teaching Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Pennsylvania State University and lecturer of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Kettering University. He completed a B.S. and an M.S. from the University of Technology, where he majored in Industrial and Production Engineering. Dr. Zghair earned his second master’s degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Doctor’s Degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA. He has several professional affiliations: Affiliate Researcher at Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment and Member of Directors Board of the Environmental Engineering Division (EED) at American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Dr. Zghair’s research interest covers a wide area of industrial and manufacturing engineering including Flexible-Automated Manufacturing, Robotics, Human Factors and Ergonomics, Sustainability Engineering, Analytical Modeling & Simulation, and Optimization, and has published journal and conference papers. Dr. Zghair continues to explore new and cutting edges areas for research and education in engineering disciplines and got recently had an extensive interest in industry 4.0 and 5.0 tech such as AI, IIoT, smart sensors, and cloud computation and control. He is a professional member of ASEE, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society (IEOM). Dr. Zghir is the faculty advisor of the SAE students’ chapter and SAU Baja and IEOM students’ chapter at SAU.
3:00 pm, October 9, 2024
Jd Marhevko
VP of Quality – Electronics & ADAS Division U
ZF Group
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Jd is a ZF VP of Quality for their Electronics & ADAS Division U. Jd has held various senior executive roles in Lean, Quality, and Operations. Several sites have won Best In Class AME Excellence Awards and/or Industry Week Best Manufacturing Plant of the Year. In 2020, Jd was inducted into the inaugural USA’s Women In Manufacturing (WiM) Hall of Fame. Jd is an ASQ Fellow, Shainin Medalist, CMQ/OE, CQE, CSSBB and MBB. Jd is the chair of two international ASQ QMD Content Management Committees (CMC): Strategic Planning Development & Deployment (SPDD) Q4.0. She holds a BSE and MSA. Jd is a Past-Chair of the ASQ QMD. She currently supports the ASQ QMD in a variety of capacities. Jd has co-authored several books and articles on Lean and Quality Systems.
Global Engineering Education Plenary
8:00 – 9:45, THURSDAY, October 10, Onsite Room 2 – E108 – IE Lab
Dr. Harun Rashid
Adjunct Professor
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Dr. Harun Rashid earned his M.A. degree from Dhaka University (Bangladesh) and University of Waterloo (Canada); and earned his Ph.D. from Wayne State University (Detroit). He has devoted his career in university teaching and research for over four decades – here and abroad – including Chittagong University and Dhaka University (Bangladesh), University of Waterloo (Ontario), Wayne State University (Detroit), University of Phoenix, Marygrove College (Detroit), and Wayne County Community College (Detroit). He aims at continuing to add more tools to his toolbox toward building strong professional learning communities at colleges and universities. He cares about being culturally responsive, and he continues to strive toward sharpening up his individual educational leadership knowledge, skills, and dispositions. His goal is to ensure consistency and precision in his strategic planning, decision making, and solution seeking. He focuses on enacting system-wide capacity-building processes in his area of concentration in the field of teaching and learning.
In addition, as the Director of Staff Mentoring and Coaching at a public charter school system for about 10 years, Dr. Rashid has been overseeing the faculty coaching, mentoring, professional development, and staff evaluation programs. He has also been conducting professional development training for teachers and instructional administrators. His goal is to assist in building, and being an important and effective part of, an impactful, healthy, growth-producing, innovative, and networked educational system that would ensure mastery-oriented mindset for all students in both core academic content and in the 21st century skills that would prepare them for college and tomorrow’s world of work.
He has published in his areas of expertise – Philosophy and Education. He has been working – for about a decade – as a pre-publication professional reviewer of books published by Oxford University Press, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, and Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group. He is a K-12 educational administrator certified by Michigan Department of Education, and a certified Quality Assurance Review Team Chair of NCA (North Central Accreditation). He served as a panelist (along with two other panelists: David Schmidt, V.P. of Connections Education Inc; and Mack Moore from National Heritage Academies) on a symposium on ESPs, EMOs, and CMOs: What are these education management organizations, and what is it like to work for one at Central Michigan University: The Governor John Engler Center for Charter Schools in April 2014.
Dr. Rashid offered professional development workshops for Michigan Department of Education, Detroit Public Schools, Metro Detroit are Private Schools, APIAVote, Michigan Institute of Professional Psychology, Michigan Association of Public School Academies, Wayne State University, Wayne County Community College, Bangladesh University Grants Commission, Universities in Bangladesh: Brac University, Dhaka University, Chittagong University, Jahangir Nagar University, and CCN University – Comilla.
He has offered professional development workshops for all levels of educators and educational administrators on Differentiated Instruction; Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP); Quality School and Choice Theory; Effective Classroom Management; Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences; Brain-based Learning; School Improvement; Teaching Critical Thinking; Reach Them Before You Teach Them; How to Get Parents on Your Side; Response to Intervention; Live Event Learning; and High Performing Teacher; Brain Based Ways We Think and Learn; Building Communication and Team Work in the Classroom; Classroom Management: Orchestrating a Community of Learners; Coaching Skills for Successful Teaching; Designing Motivation for All Learners; Discovering the Power of Live Event Learning; Meaningful Activities to Generate Interesting Classrooms; Professional Refinements in Developing Effectiveness; Purposeful Learning through Multiple Intelligences; Successful Teaching for Acceptance of Responsibility; Teaching the Skills of the 21st Century; and Cognitive Coaching: Making Faculty Better, NOT Bitter.
Dr. Quamrul Mazumder
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Engineering
College of Innovation and Technology
The University of Michigan-Flint, USA
Dr. Quamrul Mazumder is currently a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Michigan-Flint. His areas of research include computational and experimental fluid mechanics, quality in higher education, metacognition, motivation, and engagement of faculty and students, assessment and accreditation. He is actively involved in experimental techniques in multiphase flow using particle image velocimetry (PIV). Dr. Mazumder also served as a Fulbright scholar in developing curriculum and assessment process for a developing country. He has developed several global collaborations and currently involved in a number of projects in different countries. Dr. Mazumder received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Bangladesh Agricultural University, his M.S. from South Dakota State University, his MBA from Oklahoma State University, and his Ph.D. from The University of Tulsa.