Creating a New Four-Year Degree in Engineering Technology

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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.