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B. Accreditation Summary
Appendix IC. Faculty Vitae
Thomas A. Barta
Professor
Degrees:
Ph.D. Iowa State University, 1975
M.S. State University of Iowa, 1962
B.S. Iowa State University, 1957
All in Industrial Engineering
Appointments:
Assistant Prof. 1969
Associate Prof. 1975
Full Prof. 1985
All at ISU
Service:
Faculty Senate 1998-2000
Academic Affairs Council 1999-2000
Calendar Committee 1999-2000
International Programs Task Group 1996-2000
Research Grants Committee 1995-1998
Dean’s Academic Advisory Comm. 1995-2000
NTU Policy Comm. 1989-1994
Honeywell Program Advisory C. 1989-1994
Engineering Caucus of Fac. Sen. 1999-2000
Learning Community Advisor 1998-2000
Honors and Awards Chair 1997-2000
Promotion and Tenure Comm. 1997-2000
Academic Standards Comm. 1989-1997
DEO Search Committee 1993-1995
Related Experience:
Bureau of Naval Weapons 4 years
Procter and Gamble 2 years
Fisher Controls 5 years
Deere and Company .5 years
Delphi Automotive .5 years
Consulting, Patents:
Shuttleworth and Ingersoll, Attorneys at Law. Expert systems testimony.
Donnelley Marketing. Evaluation of wage payment plan.
Meredith/Burda Corp. Workload study of adhesive binder operation
Sundstrand-Sauer Corp. Simulation of manufacturing systems.
Allen Bradley Company. Simulation of order entry system.
Professional Registration:
Registered Professional Engineer in Iowa. Certificate number 05483
Principal Publications:
Thiramalai Anandanpillai, and Barta, T. A., "A Case-Based Reasoning System for Housing Discrimination Law," Expert Systems With Applications, Vol. 16, 315-324, 1999.
Muhamad Triadi, and Barta,T. "Experience With a Web-Based Discrete-Event Simulator," Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July 11-14, 1999.
Barta, "Simulation of Materials Inventory in a Manufacturing Plant with World-Wide Suppliers and Customers," ASTC 2000 Conference, Washington D.C.,
April, 2000.
Sly, David and Barta, T.A., "An Intelligent Overhead Conveyor Design Evaluator," 2nd International Conference on Engineering Design and Automation,
Maui, Hawaii, August 1998.
Countermeasure Strategy," 1998 Proceedings of the Object-Oriented Simulation Conference, pp. 72-77, January 11-14, 1998. San Diego.
Tsai, Chang-Chun, Chuy, Chao-Hsien, and Barta, T.A., "Modeling and Analysis of a Manufacturing Cell Formation Problem with Fuzzy Mixed-Integer Programming," IIE Transactions, 29, pp. 533-547, 1997.
Miller, L.L., Honavar, V., and Barta, T.A., "Warehousing Structured and Unstructured Data for Data Mining," Proceedings of American Society of Information Science(ASIS) 1997 Conference, November 1-6, 1997.
Barta, T.A. and Heng, Kheng J., "A Knowledge-Based Housing Discrimination Advisory System," The New Review of Applied Expert Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 97-108, Fall 1997.
Zhang, Sen and Barta, T.A., "Tolerance Analysis by State Space Search," International Journal of Industrial Engineering, 4(3), 151-158, September 1997.
Yim, D.S. and Barta, T.A., "Conserved Nets for Modeling and Simulation of FMS’s," International Journal of Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 37-48, 1996.
Professional Societies:
IIE, AAAI, ASEE, IEEE, SCS, MTM Assoc.
Honors and Awards:
Institute of Industrial Engineers, Central Iowa Chapter, Distinguished Service Award, 1977
Service: (program chair/co-chair, editor, etc.)
International Advisory Board, 4th International Conference on Engineering Design and Automation, July 30-August 2, 2000.
Program Committee, SCS Object-Oriented Simulation Conference, San Diego, CA, 1993 and several years.
Central Iowa Chapter of IIE, President, Board Member, 1977-1980.
IIE Region XI officer, 1976-1982, several offices.
Paper reviewer for Journal of Manufacturing Systems, SME, 1997.
Paper reviewer for Society for Computer Simulation 1992 Western MultiConference.
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