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Academic History

• PhD  The University of Iowa, 1997
• MBA  St. Ambrose University, 1984
• BS    Illinois Institute of Technology, 1978

Expertise

• Industrial Engineering

• Operations Management

• Computer-Aided Manufacturing

• Teaching Technologies

Awards

• United States Department of Energy-Integrated Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 1995.

Selected Publications

• Jerz, R., Fischer, G., “Experiences in Designing a Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Course,” ASEE Annual Conference, Portland, OR, June 2005.

• Creating Multimedia Courseware for an Engineering Graphics Course, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Montreal, Canada, June 2002.

• Jerz, R., "A Resource Consumption Model (RCM) for Process Design," Dissertation, The University of Iowa, Industrial Engineering, December 1997.

Conference Papers

• Combining the Resource Consumption Model (RCM) and the Cambridge Engineering Selector (CES) to Analyze Product Design, Symposium on Materials and Process Selection, Euromat, Rimini, Italy, June 2001.

• How CAD Forces Changes to Engineering Graphics Education, ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001.

Committees

• MBA Admissions Committee Member, 2006
• Promotion, Tenure and Standards Committee, 2001-2003

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