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After completing my BA in math at Swarthmore College and my PhD in industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California-Berkeley, I worked for 40 years as a researcher, professor, and department chair at Purdue University, the Ohio State University, and Colorado State University-Pueblo, teaching over 1000 students in classes, serving as committee chair for about 100 MS students, and supervising 5 PhD graduates. I have received teaching, research, and service awards from Purdue, Ohio State, the American Society for Engineering Education, and the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineering. I served on the Board of Directors of ASEE and, starting in July 2019, I am on the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe in students. My job is to help students enunciate and achieve educational goals. I never (well, very rarely) tell a student that a goal is not achievable (and most of those students proved me wrong). I set high standards and then I will do almost anything to help students meet those standards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love to teach. Designing and delivering an engaging and effective learning experience for students is a deeply intellectual and satisfying task. With only one opportunity per year to experiment on a specific topic, improvements must be carefully thought out. If the students largely fail to learn a topic I taught, I take responsibility for that failure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I use technology to teach. I keep all course material on a Trello<\/a> board. I use screen-cast-o-matic<\/a> to create how-to videos for the software (mostly Minitab). I use a LiveScribe<\/a> pen to create Pencasts explaining how to do example problems. I have students work in teams during class posting their results on Trello and then explaining to the rest of the class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I write Open Educational Resource textbooks (with a Creative Commons <\/a>license). See www.introtoie.com<\/a> for my Introduction to Industrial Engineering textbook. My probability, statistics, and Six Sigma textbook still needs some work before I make it public. I used two sabbaticals to write these books. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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