Member, Academic Council of College of Engineering; Member. Search Committee for Program Director, African American Studies; Member, Various IMSE Committees; Advisor, Nigerian Students Union

Program Director, Operations Research and Production Systems Programs, Division of Design and Manufacturing, Engineering Directorate, The National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. (2 years 1994-1996)

Associate Professor--Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. (6 years, 1990-1995)

Assistant Professor--Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. (6 years, 1984-1990)

Consulting:

High Steel Structures, Pennsylvania, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Corry Manufacturing, Corry, Pennsylvania

Eastern Machine Products, Reading, Pennsylvania

Professional Registration: None

Principal Publications:

Egbelu, P.J. and Wu, C-T., 'Relative Positioning of a Load Extractor for a Storage Carousel', IIE Transactions, Design & Manufacturing, Vol.30, No.4 (1998), pp.301-317.

Mckoy, D.H.C and Egbelu, P.J., ‘Minimization of Production Flow Time in a Process and Assembly Job Shop,’ International Journal of Production Research , Vol.36, No.8 (1998), pp. 2315-2332

Wei, Yui and Egbelu, P.J., ‘Process Alternative Generation from Product Design Data,’ IIE Transactions on Design & Manufacturing (to appear).

McKoy, D.H.C. and Egbelu, P.J., ‘Production Scheduling in a Process and Assembly Job Shop,’ Production Planning and Control (to appear)

Wei, Yui and Egbelu, P.J., ‘A Framework for Estimating Manufacturing Cost from Geometric Design Data,’ International Journal of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (to appear)

Professional Societies:

Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

CIEADH (Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads) (1996- )

Honors and Awards:

Recipient, Outstanding Young Men of America Award, 1983; Recipient, 1989 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award; 1996 National Science Foundation Director’s Award for Management Excellence; Fellow, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

Services:

Chair, Conference Organizing Committee, First Africa-USA International Conference on Manufacturing Technology, Lagos, Nigeria, January 11-14, 1993

Member, International Program Committee, RI/SME Fifth World Conference on Robotics Research, September 27-29, 1994, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Chairman, International Organizing Committee, Second Africa-USA International Conference on Manufacturing Technology, August 8-10, 1994, Lagos, Nigeria.

Session Chair, Fall 1994 ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, Detroit, MI.

Session Chair for two sessions, Third Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1994.

Co-organizer, NSF Workshop on "Writing a Successful Funding Proposal," NSF Grantees Conference, Seattle, Washington, January 7, 1997.

Associate Editor, Journal of Manufacturing Systems (1989 - Present)

Department Editor, Facilities Layout & Material handling, IIE Transactions (1993 - Present)

Professional Development:

Material handling Institute, Amherst, Mass, 1985

Computer Networking for Manufacturing Systems, Sponsored by NSF, Penn State University, November 4-6, 1987

USA-South Africa Workshop on Collaboration in Manufacturing Research and Education, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 17-21, 1997

USA-South Africa Workshop on Collaboration in Manufacturing Research and Education, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 22, 1997

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