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503-229-6193.
The President-Elect is responsible for elections of new officers and for organizing the Awards Committee. After serving one year as President-Elect he or she will take over as President for one year and subsequently serve as Past-President for one year.
Nominated:
Sourin Dutta, Ph.D.
Bahador Ghahramani, Ph.D., P.E., CPE
Sourin Dutta, Ph.D., P. Eng.
Dr. S. P. (Sourin) Dutta is Professor and Chair of the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Windsor in Canada. He is a Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario (Canada), a Registered Member of the Ergonomics Society (U.K.), a full member of ISOES, and also holds senior memberships with the Association of Canadian Ergonomists (ACE), the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the American Foundry Society (AFS). He has served as Secretary of the ISOES (then called IFIESR) from 1994 - 1996, and has also served as Director of the Ergonomics division of IIE and Chair of the Industrial Engineering Committee of the AFS. He is on the board of the Windsor Occupational Health Information Services (WOHIS) and the Windsor subsection of the ASQ. Prior to joining the University of Windsor in 1982, he served as Professor and Head of the Industrial Engineering Group at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering in Bombay, India. He has held a Visiting Faculty position with the Indian Institute of Management in Lucknow, India and a Post Doctoral Fellowship in Work Physiology with Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France.
Dr. Dutta has closely worked with over 30 industries in North America and India on research projects and consulting assignments related to industrial ergonomics, lean manufacturing, materials handling systems design, management of technology and green engineering. He has published over 100 papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and has contributed book chapters to four different encyclopedia on Industrial Engineering, Production Systems Design, Manufacturing Systems and Foundry Modernization. He is currently on the editorial board of Occupational Ergonomics (the official publication of ISOES) and the International Journal of Industrial Engineering - Applications and Practice, and has served on the editorial board of other journals. He has supervised 20 Ph.D. and M.A.Sc. students to date and has held research grants in excess of 200,000 Canadian dollars. He has hosted the 1999 Symposium of the Lucien Brouha Society, and has been involved in planning and organizing seminars and conferences in North America and South East Asia.
One of the projects in which he is currently involved is “Transportability of ergonomic standards and guidelines from North America to developing countries”. He is the co-ordinator of an international research team from Canada, U.S.A., France, Japan and India which is examining the physiological, bio-mechanical and anthropometric aspects of this issue. The team will be preparing action plans which can be used to specify ISO guidelines on health, safety and quality in conjunction with the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva. He is also working with automotive parts manufacturing companies in South Western Ontario on developing a cost based assessment index for ergonomic risk, which will be integrated with product design and process planning as a part of Concurrent Engineering. He is an advisor to the design of a graduate program on Safety and Environmental Management for management personnel in developing countries, offered by the National Institute of Industrial Engineering in Bombay, India.
Having been associated with ISOES since its inception, Dr. Dutta feels that the Society must revitalize its roots. ISOES is uniquely positioned to play a key role in transferring research findings from academia into the realms of the practitioner. Its constitution is epitomized by the adage - Theory without Practice is futile, and Practice without Theory is puerile. The annual conferences of the Society have so far successfully met these expectations, by encouraging active participation from all levels of the industrial and service sectors. Lately, however, the pace of interaction has slowed down. It should be the prime duty of the new incumbent to reverse the slide, and seek strategic alliances with other professional organizations to further the goals set out in our constitution.
Bahador Ghahramani, Ph.D., P.E., CPE
Dr. Bahador Ghahramani is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Management Department, School of Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). Prior to joining UMR he was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff (DMTS) at AT&T-Bell Laboratories, and the AT&T Corporate Ergonomist for more than two years. He has been a proactive member of the ISEOS for more than ten years and was a member of the Executive Council for four years. During his tenure in industry he awarded two AT&T Distinguished Awards to Dr. M. M. Ayoub (Texas Tech) and Dr. J. J. Congleton (Texas A&M) for their outstanding achievements in industry and academia. Dr. Ghahramani is a member of Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in Finance and Industry. His work experience covers several years in academia, industry, and consulting. He has extensive R&D experience in Ergonomics and Human Factors Engineering, Industrial Ecology, and Man-Machine Systems.
Dr. Ghahramani has presented and published numerous papers and has been an active participant and an officer in several national and international organizations and honor societies. He holds three patents — the “Eye Depth Testing Apparatus,” “A Method for Measuring the Usability of a System,” and “A Method for Measuring the Usability of a System and for Task Analysis and Re-engineering.” He has also applied for and maintains copyrights on five other AT&T designs and has filed another patent “Emergency Marker System, Marker Device, Components Therefore, and Methods of Making the Same.”
Dr. Ghahramani received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana Tech University, MBA from Louisiana State University, MS in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University, MS in Applied Mathematics from Southern University, and BS in Industrial Engineering from Oklahoma State University.
Please vote by July 28, either by mail, fax or email.
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Jacob Jen-Gwo Chen, Ph.D., PE
Dean’s Office
College of Science & Engineering
University of Texas - Pan American
1201 W. University Drive
Edinburg, TX 78539-2999 USA
Tel: (956) 381-2404
Fax: (956) 381-2428
jgchen@panam.edu
President-Elect
Prof. Gene H. Lee, Ph.D., PE
Dept. of Ind. Eng. & Mgmt. Systems
University of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32816-2450 USA
Tel: (407) 823-2308
Fax: (407) 823-3413
GLEE@mail.ucf.edu
Past President
Shrawan Kumar, Ph.D., DSc, FErgs
University of Alberta
Dept. of Physical Therapy
3-75 Corbett Hall
Edmonton, AB T6G 2G4 Canada
Tel: (403) 492-5979
Fax: (403) 492-1626
shrawan.kumar@ualberta.ca
Secretary
Ram Bishu
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
175 Nebraska Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0518 USA
Tel: 402-472-2393
Fax: 402-472-2410
rbishu@engunx.unl.edu
Treasurer
Cheryl L. Bennett, M.S.
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
PO Box 808 L-309
Livermore, CA 94550 USA
Tel: (925) 423-1978
Fax: (925) 422-3442
bennett13@llnl.gov
Newsletter Editor
Robert Yearout
University of North Carolina
Dept. of Management/Accounting
Owen Hall
Ashville, NC 28805 USA
Tel: 828-251-6854
Fax: 704-251-6857
yearout@unca.edu
Editor-in-Chief:
Occupational Ergonomics
Biman Das, Ph.D., P. Eng.
Dalhousie University
Dept. of Industrial Engineering
1505 Barrington Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 3K5 Canada
Tel: (902) 494-3296
Fax: (902) 420-7858
Biman.Das@dal.ca
1999 Conference Co-Chairs
Paul C. Champney
Stephen Morrissey, Ph.D.
Oregon OSHA
9500 SW Barbur Boulevard
Portland, OR 97219 USA
Tel: 503-229-6193
Fax: 503-229-5827
smorriss@gte.net
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