University of Pittsburgh
Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Industrial Engineering
July, 2007 - Present

Responsible for undergraduate curriculum development and student services.

Teaching courses in freshmen engineering, engineering economics, probability and statistics, and project management.
Responsibilities include planning and presenting classroom lectures, discussions, and exercises; developing/grading assignments and exams; as well as student advising.

University of Pittsburgh
Research Assistant Professor
August, 1994 - May, 1997

Conducted research on Engineering Education
Activities included designing and conducting experiments, managing student assistants, publication of research results, etc.

Bursic Consulting
August, 1991 - August, 1994

Served various clients as an independent consultant in quality and productivity.
Activities included developing and teaching seminars, researching, and writing.
Taught seminars for the American Society for Quality Control and other clients including a refresher course for the Certified Quality Technicians (CQT) exam.

The Pennsylvania State University
Lecturer -New Kensington and Monroeville Campuses
January, 1994 - August, 1995

Teaching "Elementary Statistics" to undergraduate students.

University of Pittsburgh
Lecturer -Katz Graduate School of Business
January, 1992 - August, 1992

Taught "Behavioral Science in Business" in the part-time MBA program.

Ernst and Young
Senior Consultant- Management Consulting
January, 1990 - July, 1991

Assigned to the corporate services area which provides professional consulting services to various clients.

Consulting areas included operations and productivity improvement, total quality management (including training), employee involvement, and so forth.

Responsible for developing a quality and operations services market in the Pittsburgh area.

University of Pittsburgh
Research/Teaching Assistant -Industrial Engineering Department
September, 1987 - December, 1989

Obtained a Doctorate in Industrial Engineering as a full-time student and research/teaching assistant.

Assisted in the teaching of undergraduate students in the areas of industrial engineering theory, engineering management, and the use of the AutoCAD software package.

Developed a course entitled "Managerial Aspects of Manufacturing Systems" for the University of Pittsburgh, School of Engineering, Manufacturing Systems Engineering Masters Program.

Participated in a sponsored research project for the development of a Strategic Technology Management System.

General Motors Corporation
Supervisor; Industrial Engineer- Pittsburgh Plant
June, 1984 - August, 1987

Directed and supervised operations, quality and maintenance activities on the production floor.

Monitored and controlled assigned production area.

Coordinated methods improvements and conducted time studies, calculated operational cycle times and established production standards.

Plant coordinator for ergonomics, established and chaired an ergonomics committee.

University of Pittsburgh

Doctorate of Philosophy, Industrial Engineering, April, 1990
Master of Science, Engineering Management, December, 1987
Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering, April, 1984
 

“Leaning Impacts Gained from Introducing Model Eliciting Activities (MEAs) in an Introductory Statistics Course,” with Natasa Vidic, Larry Shuman, Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Tuba Pinar Yildirim, and Nora Siewiorek, 2011 Industrial Engineering Research Conference Proceedings.

“Improving Conceptual Learning in Engineering Economy using Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs),” with Larry Shuman, Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Tuba Pinar Yildirim, and Nora Siewiorek, 2010 Industrial Engineering Research Conference Proceedings.

“Reviewing the Success of a Freshman Programming Course,” with Dan Budny, Laura Lund, and Natasa Vidic, 2010 ASEE North Central Section Regional Conference Proceedings.

“Implementing International Requirements in Undergraduate Industrial Engineering Programs ,” with Kim LaScola Needy, 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Conference Proceedings. 

“The Challenges of Undergraduate Industrial Engineering Curriculum Reform at the University of Pittsburgh ,” with Kim LaScola Needy, Bryan A. Norman, Mary Besterfield-Sacre and Brady Hunsaker, 2007 Industrial Engineering Research Conference Proceedings. 

Review of “Engineering Economy”, 13^th edition, by Sullivan, et. al., The Engineering Economist, 2006.

“Applying Engineering Economic Analysis to Contemporary Problems with Global and Societal Implications,” 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings.

“Self-Managed Production Teams,” chapter in Field Guide to Project Management, 2^nd edition , John Wiley & sons 2004.

"Integrating Engineering Economic Analysis Across the Engineering Curriculum," with Kim L. Needy and James P. Wilson, 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings.

"A Comparison of Freshmen and Senior Engineering Design Processes," with Cynthia J. Atman, Justin R. Chimka, and Heather N. Umphred, Design Studies, 1999.

Co-Editor of Project Management Casebook and Instructor’s Manual (with David I. Cleland, Richard Puerzer, and A. Yaroslav Vlasak) Project Management Institute, 1998.

"Verbal Protocol Analysis as a Method to Document Engineering Student Design Processes," with Cynthia J. Atman, Journal of Engineering Education, 1998.

"Self-Managed Production Teams," chapter in Field Guide to Project Management, Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing Company, 1998.

"Information Gathering: A Critical Step for Quality in the Design Process," with Cynthia J. Atman, Quality Management Journal, 1997.

"Describing Student Design Behavior," with Justin R. Chimka and Cynthia J. Atman, Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, 1997.

"Teaching Engineering Design: Can Reading a Textbook Make a Difference," with Cynthia J. Atman, Research in Engineering Design, 1996.

"An Application of Protocol Analysis to the Engineering Design Process," with Cynthia J. Atman and Stefanie L. Lozito, Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, 1996.

"Do Freshmen Design Texts Adequately Define the Engineering Design Process?" with Moore, Atman, Shuman, and Gottfried, Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, 1995.

"Gathering Information: What Do Students Do?" with Atman and Lozito, Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, 1995.

Co-Editor of Project Management Casebook and Co-Author of Instructor’s Guidelines for classroom discussion published by the Project Management Institute, 1993.

"Strategies and Benefits of the Successful Use of Teams in Manufacturing Organizations," in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, August, 1992.

Strategic Technology Management: Systems for Products and Processes with David I. Cleland, American Management Association, 1992.

"Strategic Technology Management," with David I. Cleland in Engineering Management Journal, June, 1991.

"The Use of Teams for Improving Productivity and Quality in Manufacturing," in Productivity & Quality Management Frontiers III, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Productivity and Quality Research, 1991.

"A Strategic Technology Management System," with David I. Cleland and Hay Wun Wain, in Management of Technology II, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Management of Technology, 1990.

"Production Teams in Manufacturing," chapter in The Automated Factory Handbook, TAB Books, 1990.