Courses taught during these years range from freshman to graduate
levels in the IE (now IMET) Department, sophomore and graduate courses for
the Computer Science department, as well as MBA courses and a number of
different seminars for honors students (Engineering Ethics, Technology and
Society, and Just War Theory.) The actual courses taught include
Numerical Methods, Engineering Economy, Engineering Cost Analysis,
Production/ Inventory Management (4 different levels/emphases), Operations
Research (Linear Programming, Expert Systems, and Simulation), Methods and
Measurement of Work, Applied Statiestics, and computer programming (JAVA,
JAVAScript, FORTRAN and BASIC). The courses in Numerical Methods, Engineering Cost
Analysis, and Expert Systems were developed as new courses. The other
courses have been highly modified over the years. All of these courses
were made web-assisted by 2000; during 2001 a number became fully
web-based using BlackBoard software. Over 26 students have co-authored
papers or presentations.
Committee and advisement activities at the department level include
computer co-ordinator for the IE Department (1982-1994), laboratory
co-ordinator for optimization and for work study for the IMET
Department(1995-2003), as well as Department Laboratory Chair (1997-2003).
Also included is work on the MSIE program committee (1995-1996), the BSIE
program committee (1996-2003), the ABET team (2001-2003), and numerous ad
hoc committees. As MSIE graduate advisor (1990-1996) and acting advisor
(2000, 2004) numerous modernizations were undertaken. Non-degree program
committee chair and advisor from 2006. Also included under advisement is
membership on over 35 masters project/thesis committees in
both the MSIE and MSMfE programs, being chair of 12 of those.
College and University activities include membership on the Univertsity
Senate for seven years, serving on the Executive Committee for a year.
Also inluded are membership on academic grievance; faculty review; tenure,
promotion, and dismissal; engineering work station; graduate program
review; computational needs; CAD; college seminar series; and MEA program
committees as well as a number of ad hoc comittees; the University IRB,
the University technology committee (CATE); the University ethics
community; and the North Central Association committee (2008-2010).
Beyond this is included being faculty advisor for Sigma Phi Delta (a professional
fraternity) and for the student chapter of APICS (a technical society)
K. Ravi Kumar and Dennis E. Kroll; Dynamic Network Modeling of an FMS; in Modern Production Management, AMPS-87, Winnipeg 1987
Dennis E. Kroll & K. Ravi Kumar; The Incorporation of Learning in Production Planning Models; Annals of OR, Vol. 17, 1989
Fariborz Tayyari & Dennis E. Kroll; Total Cost Analysis of Modern Automated Systems; in Justification Methods for Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems; ed. H. R. Parsaei, T. L. Ward, and W. Karwowski; Elseiver 1990
Julsiri Jareonpuntaruk & Dennis E. Kroll; A Disaggregation Problem for a Multi-plant, Multi-product Scheduling Application; Production Planning and Control, Vol. 2, Num. 4, Pg. 347, 1991
Dennis E. Kroll; Misguided Flexibility: Workers Again Becoming Machines; International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing, Vol. 2, Num. 2, pg. 193, 1992
Perry Redman & Dennis E. Kroll; Cost Accounting Changes Used to Increase Cost Reporting Response: Using ABC to Help Production Cost Systems; J. of Cost Analysis, June, 1993
Xiaoli Wang & Dennis E. Kroll; Using Group Technology to Improve Quality and Response Time; Industrial Management, July/August 1994 V 36 N4 Pp21-22
J. T. Emanuel, L. Harrel, & D. E. Kroll; Concurrent Engineering: A Case Study; Industrial Management, Sept./Oct. 1995 pp 29-32
C-S. Lin & Dennis E. Kroll; The Single-Item Newsboy Problem with Dual Performance Measures and Quantity Discounts; European J. of Operations Research, August 1997 pp 562-565
William Akwright & Dennis E. Kroll; Cell Formation Performance Measures--Determining When to Change an Existing Layout; Intl. J. of Computers and Industrial Engineering, January 1998 pp 159-171
Joseph T. Emanuel & Dennis E. Kroll; Concurrent Engineering; in The Handbook of Total Quality Management, Christian N. Madu editor, Chapter 20, pages 425-445, Kluwer Academic Publishers, London 1998
Chang-Xue Feng, Dennis E. Kroll, & Pei-Gen Li; Fuzzy Mapping of Functions onto Features in Detail Design, Intl. J. of Production Research, V 38 N 10 Pgs 2253-2272, 2000
C. J. Rybak, P. Kasambira, A. L. Leary & D. E. Kroll; Training Councelors to Relate in a Global Coomunity Using the Structured Interview Process, Illinois Counseling Association Journal, Summer, 2000, pgs 3-12
Chen-Sin Lin, Chih-Hua Chen & Dennis E. Kroll ; Integrated Production-Inventory Models for Imperfect Production Processes under Inspection Schedules, Computers & Industrial Engineering v 44 (2003) pgs 633-650#
C-S Lin & Dennis E. Kroll; Economic Lot Sizing for a Production System Subject to Deterioration and Breakdowns, Engineering Optimization
Gary C. Lin, Dennis E. Kroll, and C.J. Lin; Determining a common production cycle time for an economic lot scheduling problem with deteriorating items, European J. of Operational Research, v 173 (2006) 669-682
Dennis E. Kroll,PROSIM-W: A Production System Simulator; Winter Simulation Conference, 1974, Washington
Dennis E. Kroll, Everyday Uses of Computerized Work Measurement; Engineering and Industrial Software/Computing Conference, 1987, Rosemont, IL
Using Group Projects in an Industrial Engineering Curriculum; Proc. of the Amer. Soc. for Engr. Education, 1988
Cost and Managerial Reporting Systems for Advanced Manufacturing Systems; 10th Intl. Conf. on Production Research, August, 1989 Nottingham (with B. R. Weiss)
Flexible Assembly versus Assembly Lines - A Comparison; 10th Intl. Conf on Production Research, August, 1989 Nottingham (with G. McCoy)
Personal versus Corporate Flexibility: A Paradigm; 2nd Intl. Conf. on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing and Hybrid Automation, August, 1990 Honolulu (with Ronald Wasden)
An Economic Comparison of Various Control Chart Methods; Joint International Conf. on Factory Automation and Information Management, March, 1991 Limerick, Erie (with I. Nasution & K. S. Krishnamoorthi) *
Economic Machine Assignment Using Simulation; 11th Intl. Conf. on Production Research, August, 1991, Hefei (with Yan Gao)
Policy Formation For National Industries: The Use of Non-Linear Programming Allocation of Joint Costs; National Conference of the Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis, July, 1992, Washington, D.C. pp 263-270 (with K. B. Gardarsson) *
Inventory Reduction & Manpower Scheduling in a Job Shop Using Discrete Event Simulation: A Case Study; IIE Annual Conf., May, 1993, Los Angeles (with Lynn Bivens)
Competitiveness Through Group Technology: A Review of Techniques; Procedings of the 6th annual Conf. of the International Academy of Business Disciplines, March 1993, New Orleans V II, pp 130-138 (with Lynn Bivens)*
The Use of QFD in Preparing a Quality Engineering Program for Engineers; Annual ASEE Conference, pp 2367-2370 June, 1994 Edmonton*
An Expert System for the Design of Industrial Experiments; The 7th Interntl. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence and Expert System Applications, Nov. 9-10, 1995, San Francisco pp 117-123 (with Lynn Bivens & Joseph T. Emanuel)
Joint Teacher Education/Industrial Engineering Design Project; Illinois/Indiana Section Conference, ASEE, March 22-23, 1996 pp 52-54 (with Robert J. Wolffe)*
The Effects of Worksite Health Programs on Company Costs and Employee Productivity; Second Int'l Conf. on IE Applications & Practice, San Diego, November, 1997 pp 1159-1164 (with Jon Bateman)
Introduction of Internet Addiction Information into an Introductory Computer Usage Course, IL/IN Section Conf ASEE March 11-12, 1999 DeKalb, Illinois
Managing Electronic Data on the Factory Floor: A Practical Approach, Computers & Industrial Engineering Conf. 3/99 Pgs. 197-200 New Orleans (with Natja Guzman)
Empowering Your Employees is More Than a Statement, GT/CM World Symposium -2000, 3/27/00 pgs.269 - 271, (with Tonya A. T. Garrett)
A Joint Economic-Lot_Size with Imperfect Production Processes, Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conf. on Industrial Engineering Theory, Applications and Practice, December, 2000 (with Gary Lin and John Fordonski)
Kroll, Dennis E., Keeping students in line during an on-line Course, ASEE 2002 IL/IN Sectional Conference, April 12, 2002, Chicago, Illiniois
The Single Item Newsboy Problem with Dual Performance; TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, April, 1992 Orlando (with C-S Lin)
Scheduling of a Tire Curing Process Using Integer Linear Programming; ORSA/ TIMS Joint National Meeting, November, 1992 San Francisco (with C. Magnuson & C-S Lin)
Single Machine Dual Criteria Scheduling to Minimize the Range of Lateness with Minimum Number Tardy; ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, November, 1992 San Francisco (with C-S Lin)
The Coefficient of Variation and Correlation of Demand in MRP Lot-Sizing; TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, May, 1993 Chicago (with Xiaoli Wang)
Single machine Scheduling to Minimize the Sum of Completion Time and Maximum Tardiness with Minimum Number Tardy; ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, November, 1993 Phoenix (with C-S Lin)
A Cost Model of Multiple Products for Flexible Manufacturing Systems; 1994 SE Regional American Accounting Association Conf., April, 1994 (with H. Francis Bush & Beifang Wu)
Single Machine Scheduling to Minimize the Sum of Weighted Squares of Lateness with a Maximum Allowable Tardiness; ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, October, 1994 Detroit (with Arunkumar Pennathur & C-S Lin)
Physical Therapy and Industrial Engineering Student Colaborative Work Station Assessment; ASEE Annual conference, June, 1995 Anaheim (with P. M. R. Geigle)
A Production-Inventory Model Subject to Imperfect Production Process with Scrapped Defective Items; CORS/INFORMS Conference, April, 1998 Montreal (with C_S Lin)
Interdisciplinary Teams? An Industrial Engineering/Physical Therapy Project, ASEE Annual Conference 2000, St. Louis (with Andrew J. Strubhar)
Social Issues is the Professions: An Ethics Approach; in Race Ethnicity, and an American Campus, Timothy K. Conley & Anne Sterner Eds., Bradley University, 1995 pp 215-222 (with Linda Anglin)
Scheduling Flexible Manufacturing Systems: The Use of Dynamic Networks and Limited Entry Queues (with K. Ravi Kumar and C-Y Hung)
A Joint Economic-Lot-Size with Imperfect Production Processes, submitted to 5th Annual Intl. Conf on Ind. Engr - Theory, Application, and Practice (with Gary C. Lin & John W. Fordonski)
Caterpillar, Inc. 1998 Process Simulation Modeling Bradley University 1996 Work Sampling - 7day, 24 hour functions Champion Furnace Pipe Co. 1995 Work standards Chilicothe Metal Company 1994-1995 Scheduling, team formation, benchmarking America OTR 1990-1991 Mathematical programming modeling of the tire curing process. International Paper Spring, 1990 Job evaluation of computer controlled versus numerical controlled equipment. BF Goodrich Winter, 1990 Work sampling study of the maintenance group. Booz Allen-Hamilton Summer, 1989 Mathematical programming model of regional maintenance function. PWS Kent Publishers 1989-1993 Review of various (6) engineering economy textbooks. Two published.
My areas of responsibility included mechanical and electrical assembly of telephone switching and mini-computer equipment. This involved proofing of drawings, redesigning for manufacturability, designing processes, and generating plant routings. Also included was the responsibility for departmental capital and expense budgeting, cost reduction, and suggestion system reporting. At the plant level my responsibility covered MRP implementation and floorplan planning given rapid product turnover.
Methode Manufacturing March, 1977 to November, 1977
Staff Industrial Engineer
My responsibilities included all time studies (watch and pre-determined) and training programs in tool usage, methods, and safety.
Victor Comptometer August, 1976 to March, 1977
Manufacturing Engineer
My major task at this company was to design the floorplan for a new facility. This facility would produce calculators, computers, and cash registers. Working with the architect, I provided all plant information on facilities, power and compressed air distribution, and other building services and equipment.
Sunbeam Appliance July, 1975 to August, 1976
Senior Industrial Engineer - New Products
My responsibilities included the development of new and/or modified processes and routings for new and revised products especially electric toothbrushes, room humidifiers, animal clippers, and vacuum cleaners.
Western Electric Co. June, 1970 to January, 1974
Development Engineer - Electronic Switching Systems
My responsibilities included general shop floor engineering for various assembly and manufacturing departments.
As the entire middle management structure for this small machine shop, I covered all such functions as well as filling in for either top or foreman level managers whenever needed. I also aided in machine set-up and operation.
Most of my effort at this job consisted of aiding other engineers in various method and time studies and projects. Also, during my twelve months at this plant, I developed a simulation technique for setting time standards for a rolling mill in real-time; this overcame problems caused by the variety of raw material provisioning plans.
IBM summers, 1966, 1967
Computer operator/programmer
My tasks included operating various 1400 series systems at the Midwest Regional DPO and to program various procedures.
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