Joint Faculty Appointment in Sustainable Manufacturing
Together, the Colleges of Engineering and Design have a history – of working cooperatively on projects that involve principles applicable to both disciplines. The Center for Manufacturing and the School of Architecture, both units within those colleges, have collaborated several times in the past few years. A majority of these projects have been in the field of sustainability, linking a designers method for “seeing and inventing” the world with the emerging issues of energy efficiency and resource renewability important to an industrial engineer... read more

The Center for Manufacturing is pleased to announce that Dr. Fazleena Badurdeen and her student, Haritha Metta were recently awarded the Ann Taylor Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Conference on Value Chain Sustainability.The paper is titled, “A Framework for Coordinated Sustainable Product and Supply Chain Design”. Read the abstract...

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Continuous Improvement Starts Here
In order to teach true lean we must practice what we preach. Recently, the Lean Systems Group has made some major improvements to the True Lean Lab,  a central element of the Lean Certification Courses that demonstrates lean simulations. The goal? Make it leaner. Read more...

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