VITA OF

E. RAY LADD

P.O. Box 240

Kendrick, Idaho 83537

(208) 289-4694

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

Marital Status: Married with two children
Physical Status: Good health, 5' 11" at 190 pounds

EDUCATION HISTORY

Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering
Colorado State University, 1971-73

Doctoral Dissertation: A Dynamic Programming Approach to Goal Programming

Master of Science in Industrial Engineering
Colorado State University, 1967-68

Master's Thesis: Optimum Production Lot Size for Multi-Step Process

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
University of Minnesota, 1962-66

CURRENT RESEARCH/ARTICLES

World Class Manufacturing and Operations Management Principles

Use of Experimental Design in Quality Improvement and Design

Design for Manufacturability

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

IEEE Engineering Management Society
American Society for Quality Control

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor of Engineering Management and Program Coordinator
Washington State University
College of Engineering
Pullman, Washington

August 1988 to Present

Coordinate and instruct graduate Engineering Management program in the State of Washington. Program is delivered both by in-person instruction and via microwave (WHETS network) to five locations: Pullman, Richland, Spokane, Vancouver, and Boeing. Graduate courses developed and delivered: Project Management, Decision Analysis and Operations Research, Statistical Methods for Engineering, Statistical Quality Control and Reliability Engineering, Quality Management, Manufacturing Operation Design and Strategy, Experimental Design in Quality Engineering, Design for Manufacturability.

President, Management Prospectus Consortium
1973 to Present

Human resource and organizational development consultants, training and consulting for small and large business on a nationwide basis in the areas of Project Management, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Statistical Analysis for Technical Managers, Productivity Improvement Systems, Training the Trainer, Supervisory Management, Team Building, Material Requirement Planning, Production and Operations Management, Management Information Systems, Systems Design and Analysis.

Associate Professor of Management and Director of Business Programs
Joint Center for Graduate Study
Tri-Cities University Center
Washington State University Branch Campus
Richland, Washington

June 1987 to August 1988

Administer business programs offered to adult students mainly employed at the Hanford Project of the Department of Energy. Courses taught include Strategic Management, Management Information Systems, Production Operations Management, Quantitative Decision Making, Organization Theory and Behavior, Managerial Project Management.

Associate Professor of Management
University of North Dakota
Graduate Business Program
Minot AFB, North Dakota

June 1985 to June 1987

MBA Program offered to Air Force personnel and civilians through Air Force Institute of Technology (A.F.I.T.). Graduate courses taught: Management Information Systems, Production Operations Management, Statistics and Quantitative Decision Theory, Decision Support Systems, Managerial Finance and Accounting, Organizational Theory and Behavior. AACSB Self Study responsibility for MBA Small Business Administration case study.

Associate Professor, School of Business and Industrial Management and Engineering
Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana

June 1977 to June 1984

School of Business: Responsible for Management Information Systems, Financial Management, Investments and Financial Institutions, Decision Support Systems, Managerial Accounting, Systems Design and Analysis, Statistics and Quantitative Decision Theory, Production Operations Management. AACSB Self Study responsibility resulting in receiving accreditation in 1981. Small Business Administration case study responsibility.

Industrial Management and Engineering: Responsible for graduate and undergraduate courses in Productivity Improvement and Behavioral Management. Courses taught include: Methods and Standards, Engineering Statistics, Behavioral Management, Principles of Management, Production Operations Management, Productivity Improvement Systems, and Statistical Quality Control.

Assistant Professor of Management Science and Information Systems
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
September 1974 to September 1977

Graduate and undergraduate courses in Management Information Systems, Systems Design and Analysis, Statistics, Statistical Decision Making, Management Science, Decision Support Systems and Executive Development Seminar Program.

Assistant Professor of Industrial Management
University of Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska

September 1973 to August 1974

Courses taught included Economic Analysis, Operations Research Value Analysis, Applied Statistics, Statistical Quality Control and Reliability Systems Design.

Instructor
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
College of Business, Management Science and Information Systems

January 1971 to June 1973

Courses in Statistics and Operations Research. Major area of doctoral study was in the field of Industrial Management. Specialty within Industrial Management was quantitative decision making encompassing statistics and statistical decision making, operations research, systems design, quality control, and economic analysis.

Staff and Systems Analyst
Whirlpool Corporation
St. Joseph Michigan

January 1969 to January 1971

First large scale Material Requirements Planning System installed in the U.S. Responsible for the evaluation, analysis, design and implementation of manufacturing information systems, product goods distribution, inventory control used by twenty-five manufacturing divisions.

Industrial Engineer
Martin Marietta Corporation
Denver, Colorado

December 1966 to January 1968

Responsible for industrial engineering activity of all electronics manufacturing. Served as in-house consultant for production and operations management in both the Colorado and Florida divisions.

Industrial and Systems Engineer
RCA Whirlpool Corporation
St. Paul, Minnesota

September 1964 to December 1965

Employed as special problems engineer in the area of material, inventory and traffic control, wage incentive, plant layout, and maintenance operations.

RESEARCH

Program Development for Dynamic Goal Programming - Faculty Grant
Alaska Bar Association - State Funds - $7,000
Colorado Bar Association - State Funds - $5,000
U.S. Department of Justice - Federal Funds, "Sawmill and Lumber Industry Analysis for the State of New Mexico and Mescalero Indian Reservation 1953-1959" - $220,000
Montana State University - Co-researcher on four funded proposals which were submitted to the Office of Education, H.E.W. Purpose of research was for the comprehensive model of Career Education and Development Program in Land Grant Institutions of Higher Education - $300,000
Technical marketing project to the Fiber Optics Industry - $35,000
Technical marketing project to the Sheet Glass Industry - $5,000
Quality Circles to Hospitals, Montana Hospital Association - $5,000
Performance Appraisals for Bank Employees, First Bank System, Minneapolis, MN - $7,000
Management Selection Criteria, Washington Irrigation and Development Company - $10,000
Quality Improvement in Equipment and Process at Hewlett Packard - $25,000
Quality Improvement in Processes at Johnson Matthey - $15,000

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

Papers/Proceedings

1. Second Annual Miami International Conference in Progress and Prospects in Health Care Distribution Systems, "Goal Programming," November 1975.

2. Third Annual Southwestern Federation of Administration Disciplines, American Institute of Decision Sciences, "A Dynamic Programming Approach to Goal Programming," San Antonio, Texas, March 1976

3. Midwest American Institute of Decision Sciences, "Flowchart Approach for the Instruction of Fundamental Business Statistics," Detroit, Michigan, May 1976

4. Western Academy of Management, "Goal Programming Through the Use of Dynamic Programming," Santa Barbara, California, April 1976

5. Western American Institute for Decision Sciences, "MIS Planning - Problem: Priority Establishment,' Phoenix, Arizona, March 1977

6. Western American Institute for Decision Sciences, "MIS Planning - Problem: The Shift in Plan," Dallas, Texas, March 1978

7. Southwest American Institute for Decision Sciences, "Comparatory Based Nominal Group Technique: Application MBO for State Government," Reno, Nevada, March 1979

8. Western Academy of Management, "A Modification of the Nominal Group Technique," Portland, Oregon, April 1979

9. Western American Institute for Decision Science, "Why and How Decision Scientist Should Write Objectives for Funded Research Proposals," Phoenix, Arizona, March 1980

10. National Decisions Science Institute, " A Framework for the Analysis of Cultural and Comparative Management," Hawaii, November 1986

11. Pan-Pacific Conference IV, "Comparative Analysis of Management Styles, An Analytical Approach," Taipei, Taiwan, May 1987

12. National Decision Science Institute, "Health Care Service Operations - Nursing Behaviors Impact on patient Satisfaction and Patronage," Boston, MA, November 1987

13. Western Decision Sciences Institute, "A Service Operation Management Based Marketing Plan for Dentistry," Hawaii, March 1988

14. Western Decision Sciences Institute, "An Operations Management Model Study for Air Force Officers Clubs," Monterey, California, March 1988

15. IEEE Engineering Management Society. 1996 International Conference on Engineering and Technology Management, Vancouver, BC, August, 1996. Paper: Virtual Engineering Management Education Programs.

16. Joint IEEE, ASEE Frontiers in Education, 1996 Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 1996, Paper:  The Role of Industry in Forming a Distance Learning Engineering Management Program.

17. ASEE Pacific Northwest 1997 Conference on Balancing the Needs of Education and Industry, Bellingham, Washington, May 1997. Paper: Making Graduate Engineering Education Accessible to the Locationally Disabled-Disbursed Education.

18. PICMET 97: Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology, July 1997, Portland, Oregon. Paper: Industry Driven Engineering Management Program Within A Distance Learning Environment.

19. Article In Process: "Quality Engineering Using Design of Experiments/Educational Tools and Methods,"

20. Article in Progress: World Class Manufacturing Operations Management Principles

21. Article in Progress: Design for Service