He teaches undergraduate and graduate Information and Computer Technology (ICT) courses within the Department of Technology Systems. Dr. Pickard plays an active role in building positive and sustainable industry relationship between the college, local businesses, and industry partners. Current industry recognized certifications include; Cisco Certified Network Professional, Microsoft Certificated Professional, EMC Information Storage and Management, IPv6 Forum Certified Engineer (Gold), IPv6 Forum Certified Trainer (Gold), and Cisco Certified Academy Instructor. Dr. Pickard received his Ph.D. in Technology Management at Indiana State University. He also holds an MBA from Wayland Baptist University and a B.S. in Professional Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle University. Research interests include: IPv6, IPv6 adoption, wireless sensor networks, and industry-academia partnerships.
William (Bill) J. McClung, PE is a Senior Maintenance Engineer at PotashCorp in Aurora, North Carolina. In this role, he is exposed to a wide variety of engineering and maintenance challenges involved in operating a vertically integrated modern phosphate plant. He has a diverse background including manufacturing, product design and development. Bill began his career designing and supervising construction of custom fire trucks for Sutphen Towers, Inc. He later supervised product design, development and current product support of a variety of forklifts manufactured for Clark, Hyster and Yale brands. Bill is very active with youth in the community and volunteers for Mathcounts, Engineers Week, Science Olympiad and FIRST Robotics. Bill is a founding member of Pitt County Robotics. This organization uses FIRST Robotics to encourage students to pursue stem careers. Pitt County Robotics supports two FRC teams and over 10 FLL teams each year and engages hundreds of students each year with hands-on robotics and stem activities. Bill holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University and is a Licensed Professional Engineer in North Carolina. Dr. Merwan Mehta is a Professor at East Carolina University in the Technology Systems Department at Greenville, NC. Prior to joining academics, he has over twenty years of experience working as a machine tool design engineer, manufacturing engineer, manufacturing manager, vice-president, partner, and consultant. His present research interests are improving manufacturing productivity through Lean manufacturing principles and theory of constraints, and the pursuit of quality and variation control through six-sigma. He has conducted post-conference sessions in value stream mapping for the IIE's Lean Solutions Conference since 2001, and has created and conducted several lean six-sigma process simulations. He is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) & the Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME), and is a member of the Association for Technology, Management and Applied Engineering (ATMAE), the American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE), and the American Society for Quality (ASQ). He is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE), and a Certified Six-Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB). An advanced manufacturing and innovation academy (AMIA) had been implemented to engage talented young people in the community and connect them with regional advanced manufacturing careers and related entrepreneurial activities. College professors and administrators used collaborative educational approaches to integrate advanced manufacturing pedagogy with robotics, digital manufacturing, and 3D printing with the community students. A tour to a local advanced manufacturing facility was conducted to broaden participants' understanding of advanced manufacturing through direct examples of the themes of the academy. This paper covers the first year of AMIA (a work in progress) and details the background and motivation of the academy. Goals, educational componen...
Prior to joining academics in 2004, he has over twenty years of experience in business and industry working as an industrial/methods engineer, machine tool design engineer, manufacturing engineer, technical partner, project director, vice-president and consultant. His present research interests are enhancing manufacturing and business processes through lean principles and theory of constraints, and the pursuit of quality and variation control through six-sigma.Merwan has conducted 2-day post conference value stream mapping workshops for the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) for their Lean/Operational Excellence Conference since 2001 at various companies all over the US. He is an ASQ Certified Six-Sigma Black Belt and a SME Certified Manufacturing Engineer.
In this paper we present the development of a versatile Industrial Process Control (IPC) remote lab solution for facilitating 24/7 access to students anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. The lab will be built and tested during the spring semester of 2016 and piloted in a fall 2016 electromechanical systems course taught as part the BS in Industrial Engineering Technology (IET) program at East Carolina University. The lab environment will provide distance education students with the foundational hands-on skills needed to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot industrial control systems securely through a remote Internet connection. The centerpiece of the laboratory design is to provide distance education students with the hands-on lab experience of operating industrial process control equipment as though they had physical access to the laboratory equipment.The laboratory development offers a rare opportunity for inter-program collaboration in the planning, design, and implementation of the laboratory environment. A common discussion topic within academic institutions is the extent that differing, but related, disciplines can be integrated to take advantage of synergies and enhance the knowledge base and skill sets of the related disciplines. In this context, central to the development of the remote lab environment was the collaboration between faculty from Information and Computer Technology (ICT) and Industrial Engineering Technology (IET) programs.
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