Ahad Ali, Ph.D.

Associate Professor 

Director, Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Operations Engineering (BSIOE)

Director, Master of Science in Industrial Engineering (MSIE)

A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering

Lawrence Technological University

21000 West Ten Mile Road

Southfield, MI 48075

Tel: 248-204-2531, Fax: 248-204-2576

Email: aali@ltu.edu 


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Professional Activities

 

 NSF Graduate Fellowship Review Panel, Washington DC, January 2013.

 

Workshop on Innovating Curriculum with Entrepreneurial Mindset - Focus on Sustainability, Saint Louis University, November 1 - 2, 2012.

 

INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pheonix, Arizona, October 13 - 15, 2012.

Mini-Symposium on Modeling and Simulation, Testing and Validation (MSTV) at 2012 Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium (GVSETS), Organized by The Michigan Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), Detroit Marriott - Troy, August 15 - 16, 2012.

Third IEOM in Istanbul, Turkey, July 3-6, 2012.

 

 

Shaping Entrepreneurial Engineers (SEE) Workshop, San Antonio, TX, Kern Family Foundation, June 14, 2012.

IIE Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 19 - 23, 2012.

Entrepreneur Mindset Workshop, May 17, 2012.

NASA Academy of Aerospace Quality (AAQ) Mini-Workshop, Held in Conjunction with NASA Quality Leadership Forum (QLF) March 22, 2012 Radisson at the Port Resort, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Panelist, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Washington DC, Jan 11-13, 2012.

 

IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers) Engineering Lean and Six Sigma Conference, Atlanta, October 11-12, 2011.

KIT2/3 Follow-up meeting - August 26, 2011.

Seminar on Higher Education at Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB), Ramana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 22, 2011.

 

Seminar at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Khulna, Bangladesh, August 4, 2011.

Seminar at Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET), Gazipur, Bangladesh, August 1, 2011.

Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Reno, Nevada, May 21-25, 2011.

Cohort: KIT2/KIT3 Theme workshop for PBL, May 16 -19, 2011.

Entrepreneurial Mindset Workshop, May 12, 2011.

Panelist, NSF SBIR Panel Review, April 20, 2011.

NASA Academy of Aerospace Quality (AAQ) Mini-Workshop, Held in Conjunction with NASA Quality Leadership Forum (QLF), March 17, 2011 Radisson at the Port Resort, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Panelist, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Review, Washington DC, Feb. 11-13, 2011.

International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jan 22-24, 2011.

 

Energy Solutions Conference, Technology & Market Assessment Forum Meeting, ESC, Ren Center , Detroit , June 9-10, 2010.

Applied Solutions Conference, June 7-9, 2010.

IERC 2010, Cancun , Mexico , June 6-9, 2010.

Evaluator: National Defense Graduate Fellowship, Washington , DC , Feb 20-21, 2010.

International Conference on IEOM, Dhaka , Bangladesh , Jan 9-10, 2010.

NSF Panel Review, Washington DC , July 30, 2009.

FastTrac to the Future: The First Day of Your Entrepreneurial Adventure, Tech Town , WSU, July 25, 2009.

FastTrac to the Future: The First Day of Your Entrepreneurial Adventure, Tech Town , WSU, August 18, 2009.

Invited Speaker, Michigan Simulation User Group (MSUG) - General Meeting, Novi , MI , June 9, 2009.

IIE Annual Conference, Miami, FL, May 2009.

NSF I/URC on Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) - IAB Meeting, IMS IAB meeting, Ford Dearborn Truck Assembly Plant, MI, May 5-6, 2009.

NASA Academy of Aerospace Quality (AAQ) Breakout Session, Held in Conjunction with NASA Quality Leadership Forum (QLF), Kennedy Space Center , FL , March 19, 2009.

 

NSF Career Workshop NSF, CAREER Workshop, Washington DC , March 12-13, 2008.

Invention to Venture (I2V) Workshop, UTLC Gallery, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI, February 27, 2009.

SME Annual Conference, Detroit, MI, May 30 - June 2, 2008.

IIE Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, May 17-21, 2008.

IMS IAB Workshop, Peoria, IL, April 29, 2008.

Workshop on imbedded health management system for automotive, Peoria, IL, April 28, 2008.

Hands-on Machinery Diagnostics Measurements using NI Sound & Vibration Assistant and NI CompactDAQ, Peoria, IL, April 28, 2008.

NA Material Handling show, Cleveland, OH, April 22, 2008. 

DSI Midwest Conference,  Erie, PA, April 17-19, 2008.

Workshop on e-clip, Wake Up Your Students! (with Video and Audio from Cornell University's eClips), Deborah Streeter, Bruce F. Failing, Sr. Professor of Personal Enterprise and Small Business Management in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell, LTU, May 15, 2008.

Problem based learning workshop: An Introduction to Problem Based Learning, By: Deborah E. Allen, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Programs Director, University of Delaware, LTU, March 28, 2008 .

Scholarship of Teaching, Assessment, and Learning (SoTAL) Poster Session, UTLC Gallery, April 15, 2008.

 

IIE/ASQ lean conference, Atlanta, Sept 24 - 25, 2007 .

Winter simulation conference, Washington DC, December 9 - 12, 2007. 

IMS IAB Meeting, Daimler Chrysler Technical Training Center in Warren, Michigan, October 29 - 30, 2007. 

Michigan Simulation User Group (MSUG) Conference,  Management Education Center, Troy, Michigan, September 26, 2007.

Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC) 2007, Nashville, Tenn., May 19-23, 2007.

13th Industry Advisory Board Meeting, NSF Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems, May 17-18, 2007.

Concept Inventory Workshop, sponsored by NSF, Washington, DC, May 10-12, 2007. 

NASA Academy of Aerospace Quality (AAQ) Breakout Session, Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 29, 2007. 

Review panelist for the Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) Defense Scholarship for Service Program, Arlington, Virginia, March 2-3, 2007. 

2007 Minority Serving Institutions Proposal Development Conference, NSF, Arlington, Virginia, February 27-28, 2007. 

 

QEM Proposal Development and Evaluation Workshop, National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, Four Points by Sheraton BWI Airport Hotel, Baltimore, MD, October 27-28, 2006. 

Mentoring Workshop, Undergraduate Research, co-sponsored by the IEEE Education Society and the Puerto Rico Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (PR-LSAMP) Program. Speaker: Dr. Michael Doyle, Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland in College Park, September 21, 2006. 

NSF Workshop on Successful Proposals and Understanding NSF Programs/Opportunities, Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Program: The Central New York-Puerto Rico Consortium (CNY-PR AGEP), University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, May 5, 2006.

Industrial Engineering Research Conf. (IERC 2006), Orlando, May 19 -21, 2006. 

4th Annual IIE New Faculty Colloquium, Orlando, May 20, 2006.

 

Maynard Operation Sequence Technique (MOST) Certification, Pittsburgh, Aug 8-12, 2005. 

7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Natural Computing (CINC 2005), Salt Lake City, Utah., pp. 499-502, July 21 - 26, 2005. 

Cleveland 2005 Exposition and Conference, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), I-X Center, Cleveland, OH, June 7-9, 2005. 

2005 CIRP-sponsored 3rd International Conference on Reconfigurable Manufacturing Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, May 10-12, 2005.

 

Decision Science Institute (DSI) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 22-25, 2003.

INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, October 19-22, 2003.

 

AME (Association for Manufacturing Excellence) Annual Conference, Chicago, November 7 - 8, 2002.

Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting of Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS), Milwaukee, WI, October 3 - 4, 2002.

5th International Conference on Managing Innovations in Manufacturing, Milwaukee, WI, USA, September 9 - 11, 2002.

Conference Secretary: Fifth International Conference on Managing Innovations in Manufacturing (MIM 2002), Milwaukee, WI, September 9 - 11, 2002.

2nd Inter. Workshop on Intelligent Systems Design & Applications, Atlanta, GA, August 7 - 8, 2002.

IIE Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conf. (IERC 2002), Orlando, Florida, May 19 -21, 2002.

Entek Training for two full days, March 20, 2002.

 

Automod Training for two full days, December 2001.

Overview of Historian: Data collection, Reporting, Analysis, and Visualization, November 14, 2001.

Rockwell Software Training: Using RSBizWare Historian, November 13, 2001.

NSF Sponsored Workshop on Tether-Free Technologies for E-Manufacturing and E-Maintenance/Service, Milwaukee, WI, October 1-2, 2001.

COMPSIM Software Training: Tools for knowledge capture and data weighting and reporting for Decision Making Analysis and Reports: one day

Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting of Center for IMS, UWM, October 02 - 03, 2001.

Questra Training: on A2B (Appliance To Business) platform, Rochester, NY, June 12, 2001.

ERP and eBusiness: Value, Viability and Future Vision of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems and Their Role in Building eBusiness, A full day seminar featuring John Erickson, i2 Technologies, Friday, May 30, 2001.

IIE Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conf. (IERC 2001), Dallas, Texas, May 20 - 22, 2001.

Siebel eBusiness Essential (CRM) Training, in Dallas, May 21 – May 29, 2001.

Eagle Maintenance Management Software: Three days training, May 2001.

Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting of Center for IMS, Milwaukee, WI, April 10 - 11, 2001.

LabView VI Training: March 12, 2001.

National Manufacturing Week Conference, McCormick Complex, Chicago, March 5-6, 2001.

Siebel Field Service one-day Seminar in Chicago, Questra and Field Service February 2001.

 

International ICSC (International Computer Science Conventions) Congress on Intelligent Systems and Applications (ISA2000), University of Wollongong, Australia, December 12-15, 2000.

International ICSC Symposium on Multi-Agents and Mobile Agents in Virtual Organizations and E-Commerce (MAMA'2000), University of Wollongong, Australia, December 11-13, 2000.

 

Sixth International Conference on Agile, Intelligent, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CAICIM 1998), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA October 7-9, 1998.

Training program on Biomass Densification at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, September 1997 to October 1997.

Short Course on Industrial Accident and Safety Management, organized by Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB), August 17 -22, 1996.

 

 

Professional Society Member:

IIE

INFORMS

Decision Science Institute (DSI)

IEEE

Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB)